mDIAKA HOETICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 



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which uses wealth toward the end of creating great men. Man earns the 

 dollar; woman spends the dollar judiciously, wisely, and gives opportunity 

 to her family. 



I believe it is possible to educate women specifically and definitely for 

 home making and housekeeping, and I believe it should be given, and 

 ought to be given in our schools of agriculture. It is a movement toward 

 elevating the home, and preparing for it as a career is a reaction, I think, 

 from the disposition wliich women have had to leave home and go into 

 commercial life. They have been driven into commercial life, but it is 

 their province to make a home. This is half of her education. College 

 women have been thinking along these lines; schools are being organized, 

 and home making and houselveeping is being held up as a definite business 

 which must be prepared for, if they would be conducted very success- 

 fully. 



I suppose all of you were at the Columbian Exposition. Some of you 

 may have read those inscriptions that were written by President Eliot 

 from Harvard. The inscription was over a fine monument, and the in- 

 scription was almost gi-eater than the monument, which was among those 

 at the peristyle looking out toward Lake Michigan: "To the brave women 

 who meet strange dangers — reared families and made homes." Wasn't 

 that a fine recognition of women? With those pioneer women, in those 

 new homes, the home was never made without heavy toil, and they 

 met strange dangers. Dedication of life, knowledge, intelligence, every- 

 thing, is worthily dedicated when it is dedicated to the home. 



I think of home, often, as of the making of a violin. Those who have 



read Kate 's story will remember how she says the wood is 



taken from a tree on the sunniest side, just so near the heart of the tree. 

 It is then put in a stream of running water, and there hears the rippling 

 of the water, the singing of the birds and the sweet sounds of nature, 

 and then the bit of wood is taken from the water and put away twenty 

 years, fifty years, one hundred years, and then some one comes and takes 

 that bit of wood and fashions it into a violin, and when it is made, this 

 perfect instrument, it takes another to get from it the sound that sends 

 your own heart to all those beautiful memories, those beautiful thoughts, 

 beautiful treasures of inheritance we have from our mothers that used 

 that first violin, but our own hand must bring the chord, and our hand 

 and heart both must be trained. 



President Hobbs: I am very sorry that tliis house was not filled to 

 hear this splendid address. 



Professor Latta: It seems to me it would be a nice thing to give 

 the ladies present an opportimity to express themselves in regard to this 

 kind of education. Indiana women do not know very much about it yet; 

 at least, so far as I know, they are not seeking it to a very large extent. 



