582 Reading-Course for Farmers' Wives. 



C. For Readers of Third Year, further discussion of Home Sani- 



tation. 



1. Is there any pubhc or neig-hborhood nuisance which 



threatens the health of the neighborhood? Is there 

 to be any preventative? 



2. Discuss the best means of ventilating the rooms in a 



home ? 



3. Are the children exposed to any danger from disease 



in the surroundings at school? Appoint, if necessary, 

 * a committee to investigate this. Can individual drink- 



ing cups be supplied in the school? Are the floors 

 of the schoolroom kept free from dust? Do the chil- 

 dren sit in draughts? Are the outbuildings in a 

 sanitary condition? 



D. Fcr Readers of the Fourth Year, Farmers' Wives' Bulletin Xo. 16. 



Consider the last half of questions on the discussion paper. 

 ^ Is it wise to keep both bread and pastry flour? 



What is the best kind of yeast to use ? 



With bread at five cents a loaf, which is the cheaper, consider- 

 ing the value of labor, to make or buy the bread? 



III. Concluding Program. 



Current Events : Discuss items of news, or important editorials 

 of the month. 



Refreshments. 



Home reading for November: 



" There breathes no being but has some pretence 

 To tJiaf fine instinct called ' Poetic sense '." 



— Oliver Wendell Holmes. 

 Read during the month of November from Whittier: 



Snow Bound (nature). Toussainte L'Ouverture (freedom). 

 Thy will be done (religious). ]\Iaud Miiller (narrative). 



First December Meeting. 



I. Introductory Exercises. 

 Music. 

 Quotation, by the President — 



" The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof; tlie world, 

 and they that dwell therein" 



