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more tactfully If I had known that I was to speak, and I Hiink (liat the 

 ladies here should feel it their duty to supplement what 1 liave said. 



President Stevens: This is indeed a very important subject, to all of 

 us, young or old, and I think there are quite a number here who could say 

 Interesting things on this subject. T sJioiild like to hoar from a number. 



Mrs, Wood: I think a boy and girl should be tauglit along the same 

 line. I think this is the sensible course to take at this day and time. 

 I think every child should be taught to have some aim in life, not to lie 

 idly by and live because their parents are well off. They should be 

 taught to shift for themselves. I make that a point and I live up to it. 

 I am like* our sister here about houselieeping. It is one of the greatest 

 honors. I think, that a girl can have, to lie one of the best bread, or pie, 

 or cakf niakers. Of conrsi- tlicy must know other things, hut these 

 are some of the things that women can't get along without knowing, even 

 if they do marry a man that is wealthy, for there often comes a time 

 when it would be very handy for tlie wife to know how to cook. If slie 

 can't cook she is often left in a pretty bad shape. 



President Stevens: Sometimes they may have a man they have to 

 support. What about that? 



Mrs. Wood: Yes, that is another thing. I don't* agree with what the 

 boy said; I don't agree with one word of it. If a girl can get out and 

 make her living I lielieve in her doing so, and if the boy can get the place 

 all right, but if not all right. I once knew a man from the northern part 

 of the State who came to Indianapolis and set up a store, and almost 

 everyone of his clerks was a lady, and he was one day asked why he had 

 so many ladies, and he replied that he found them more honorable and 

 honest, and that he had never known a lady defaulter. I think it is very 

 necessary for all of us to have some aim in life, and then train up to it. 



Mrs. Garretson: I am sure we ladies especially feel very thankful to 

 Mrs. Stevens for her talk. I think the best way to train a girl is to give 

 her considerable experience. Boys and girls should be treated alike. 

 Suppose there are two or three girls and boys in a family, and the boys 

 are taught some kind of employment that they can make money at. The 

 girls are kept at home and only taught to keep house, as they have plenty 

 of money; but suppose the father should die, and they should lose their 

 money, as is often the case, and the boys should get married, how are 

 the girls going to make a living. They can't do it by housekeeping at 

 liome. If they had a knowledge of anything by which they could earn a 

 living they would feel independent— just as independent as the boys do. 

 Often a girl marries a man that is a poor manager, and he dies, leaving 

 her nothing, and if she knows how to do nothing she is certainly in a bad 

 condition. I know of a case of this kind. The husband was a poor man- 



