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Make the organization as formal or informal as you please. Allow no 

 discussion of topics during the program hour except those selected for 

 the evening. The President should hold all members to a stringent ob- 

 servance of the rules in order to make the meetings a success. 



It is well to have the men present at these meetings and to ask them 

 to take part in the program, but it is suggested that they may retire to 

 another room and discuss agricultural subjects while the women are on 

 the domestic problems, or that time be given to them for a discussion of 

 their own subjects to which the women will doubtless be interested 

 listeners. The men can doubtless throw much light on the domestic 

 problems of the home. 



Elect a chairman. Draw up a few rules by which meetings shall be 

 governed. These may be added to as the occasion demands. Each club 

 will need to be governed by its own local conditions. 



Register as a club at once by addressing Farmers' Wives' Reading- 

 Course, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Have the Secretary keep the club in close touch with the University. 



Possibly the Supervisor of the Course may be able to visit the club 

 at a regular meeting. 



A traveling library will be quite indispensable to the carrying out 

 of this schedule, unless you prefer to buy the books. Apply soon for 

 the library. It is not connected with this Extension Department, but 

 with the Department of Education, Albany, N. Y., Library Division, 

 where application should be made and fee sent. The library may be 

 kept six months, and a fee of $1 for ten books pays transportation both 

 ways. 



Traveling Library for Farmers' Wives' Reading-Clubs, 1905-1906: 



Wliittier's Poems. 



Grandfather's Chair, Hawthorne. 



Literary Leaders of America, Richard Burton. 



Abraham Lincoln, Schurz. 



Principles of Home Decoration, Candace Wheeler. 



The Great World's Farm, Selina Gaye. 



How to Keep Bees, Anna B. Comstock. 



Among Green Trees, Julia Ellen Rogers. 



Story of Bacteria, Prudden. 



Power Through Repose, Anna Payson Call. 



