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he does not help about making the home comfortable in 

 little ways, it makes it all the harder for the wife. As the 

 lady says, the home should be provided with the best of 

 reading matter. Each child should have its own paper. 

 There are a few good papers in the land, but there is not a 

 daily fit to put into any household. There are a few good 

 weeklies, and there are some monthlies that are very excel- 

 lent. We all ought to go forth and practice what we have 

 heard preached. 



H. C. Adams — I want to enter a protest upon one point 

 in the paper. I noticed Mr. Kellogg avoided it. It is this: 

 That the head of the house should stay at home and let the 

 wife go out. I do not think that is just practical. If my 

 wife should set out to call upon all the neighbors and leave 

 me at home to take care of the children, I not having had any 

 training and having no capacity for bringing them up, I 

 think she would be apt to find things in bad shape when 

 .she got home. 



I fully sympathize with the lady about the rag carpet 

 lousiness. A man comes home from his work all tired out, 

 and there his wife will sit all the evening and sew carpet 

 rags. He comes in the house in a hurry sometimes, and 

 perhaps he may step on one of those balls and then there is 

 trouble. Then again, we have some very pleasant associa- 

 tions lingering about our old clothes, and perhaps he may 

 come in and want that old pair of pants and his wife tells 

 him she has just put them into the carpet rags. I have a 

 good deal of sympathy for the man whose wife makes rag 

 carpet. 



A. L. Hatch — I do not think very many women spend 

 much time making rag carpet if they do not have to scrub 

 a little. I am sorry for Mr. Adams if he cannot take care 

 of the children one evening for his wife. 



Mrs. Campbell — I am not sorry for Mr. Adams, but I am 

 sorry for Mrs. Adams. 



Pres. Smith — The great trouble with Mr. Adams is he as- 

 sumes he is an average man, and he makes a mistake. 



I want to say a few words in regard to the drudgery of 

 farm and horticultural labor. It does not seem to me that 



