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porta lit to digest too quickly. I believe the young uian is wrong. I 

 believe that our girls should be given an education that will fit them for 

 bread winners. I don't believe that because^ a girl is able to go out in 

 the world and make a living she will be apt to make any less a good wife 

 and mother. I think she will make a better one. When she has earned a 

 dollar she will know what it is worth. She will know that it is not the 

 proper thing to save it up in a stingy manner and not at all the thing to 

 waste it. I may be brought to change my mind, but I don't believe that 

 I will. I believe that we should train our daughters to be housekeepers. 

 I believe that every girl in Indiana and everyone in America should 

 have quite a bit of domestic science education before she is considered a 

 well-rounded, educated girl. A great many seem to think that this can be 

 done at home by mothers. I don't believe it can be. I can't teach my 

 daughter to make pies as good as her grandmother made. I think she 

 should have a course in domestic science. There are two or three 

 re;Ksons lor this. We mothers are so busy that we haven't the time just 

 when the girls should be taught to make pies and bread; there is some- 

 thing? comes up, and we don't takie time to teach them rightly. There are 

 a great many that don't know how themselves, and therefore are not 

 fit to teach the girls to be excellent cooks and excellent housekeepers. 

 The idea used to be prevalent and I think it is now to some extent, that 

 the best cook is the one that has the most food on her table. I don't 

 believe that is the best housekeeper. I don't believe that the right training 

 for a boy or girl is to expect anyone, especially their mother, to spend 

 all of her time working for them in order that they may have things nice. 

 I think there is a higher mission in life for the mother than to do this. 

 I think this is equally true of the ordinary housekeeper. I think it Is 

 well that the family should eat plain meals and wear plain clothes that 

 the mother may read a new, good book, take a vacation, and train the 

 child to be .self-sacrificing and self-supporting, and to do this she must 

 not make life entirely too soft for thom. I don't believe there is any- 

 thing we can do for our daughters that is more important than teaching 

 them self-reliance, and that sometimes they will be the head of the house 

 and will have everj^thing to look after. The boys ought also to be 

 trained in the same idea. I don't think a mother needs more consideration 

 than a father. The father needs to be considered equal with the mother, 

 but they should not be taught, "Now father is coming home, and we 

 must do so and so. and this is father's big chair," etc. I think this is all 

 right, but we must not practice this more for the father than for the 

 mother. I teach my child in this way and I would not have her feel in 

 any other way. I don't believe it is right to teach the members of the 

 family that mother and sisters do not need as much consideration as any 

 of the rest of the family. There are a great many things that might be 

 said in this connection, and pn!is;il)ly I might have said more and said It 



