688 BOARD OF AtlRlOULTUKE. 



heartaches would be saved, besides, the many pleasant hours you could 

 enjoy together. 



When school days are over and the daughter comes out hi society 

 the mother still keeps in touch with her. The sensible mother does not 

 malie a liitchen drudge of herself, and a parlor ornament of her daughter. 

 She teaches her the art of cooking, housekeeping!, and home making. 

 These ai-e graces of the highest order, and ought to be classed on the list 

 of high arts. 



The woman who is able to manage in her kitchen as well as to appear 

 in her drawing room, is truly an accomplished woman. Whether rich or 

 poor every girl should be taught what constitutes a home, and how to 

 manage it. 



Last, but not least, she is taught the sacredness of marriage, and the 

 sanctity of motherhood. If girls were taught more of the realities of 

 married life and less of the story-book side, we should have happier homes 

 and less of the sorrows of life that bring about so many separations and 

 untold shame on innocent children. 



THE WIFE'S SHARE. 



MKS. BELLK HARDING. 



[Read at Farmers' Institute, Corunna, Ind., January 13.] 



Mr. President, Ladies and (Gentlemen — it affords me great pleasure 

 to find a place on the progi'am this afternoon, to l)e permitted to address 

 this intelligent audience; an audience which represents the class of peo-' 

 pie upon whidh the world in general depends for the sustenance of life. 

 A class of people to whom the politician, the statesman, the banker, the 

 millionaire and all laborers except the farmer must alike look for food 

 to supply the daily wants of themselves and families. 



The strikes among miners, manufacturers, railroad men. street car 

 employes and, in fact, almost every kind of employment, is a common, 

 cvcry-day occurrence, and brings depression along that line while the 

 strike continues. Men are llirown out of employment, others take their 

 places, and with perliaps a few changes in a shoi't time the work goes on. 



But what would it mean should the farmers make a strike, cease 

 tlieir form of laboi- for a few years or even months? Let me tell you, 

 kind friends, it would mean starvation or death. Men would lose their 

 jobs for want of food. Theii- wives and children or other dependents 

 would fall by their side for Avant of food, and we would witness more 

 distress and more misery than can be pictured by the tinest artist the 



