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Nearly half their students are young ladies, daughters of farmers and of 

 city men, and they are taught practically such things as are by common con- 

 sent held to be women's work. 



They go to the kitchen for their industrial training, and I can tell you it is 

 a most interesting sight. They go by sections. A woman was in charge, and 

 she seemed specially Avell qualified for the work, full of zeal and skill and 

 good humor. The girls came in in white aprons, with sleeves rolled up, and 

 they made bread and cooked meats, and practiced setting the table, and all 

 such elements of home comfort. 



Another section were practicing on dressmaking. 



Do they ever object? Occasionally, but they soon become absorbed in the 

 current and take pride and pleasure in their work. 



They may learn telegraphy, type setting, photography, type writing, typog- 

 raphy, wood carving, etc., etc. 



We have as yet nothing of this kind in Michigan, but I hope before I am 

 many years older that we may see even this among us. What is the justice 

 in doing so much for our boys and leaving our girls to shift for themselves? 

 Ladies, when you go home think this matter over and tell your husbands how 

 to vote on the subject. 



Hon. Wm. L. Webber, of East Saginaw, was introduced and spoke further, 

 as follows, on the same subject of 



INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. 



Mk. President, Ladies and Gentlemen — One of the things that a 

 lawyer learns early is that words should be used to express ideas with exact- 

 ness. Prof. Mc Louth expresses his ideas Avith exactness as a rule, but I 

 think he made a mistake when he said that one of the objects of industrial 

 education was to dignify labor. Let me put it as it seems to me he meant it: 

 "One of the objects of industrial edncation is to teach people to properly 

 appreciate the dignity of labor." You see the difference between the 

 expressions. Labor needs no dignifying; all it needs is to have people edu- 

 cated so that they will correctly appreciate the true dignity of labor. ISTo' 

 man ever yet lived but "should have died in the horning" who was not a 

 laboring man, one who would appreciate the dignity of labor if he were 

 correctly educated; for we are so formed that " we are all members one of 

 another." 



Society is made up of the brotherhood and sisterhood of human beings, 

 and any man living in society who is not willing to try to make others wiser 

 and happier, is wasting his time, doing nobody any good, nor making him- 

 self happy. A man who strives to make others happy and succeeds, thereby 

 best insures his own happiness. 



It was said by a poet many years ago : 



" Honor and fame from no condition rise; 

 Act well your part — there all the honor lies." 



Honor is not conferred upon an individual unless he himself is honorable.. 

 You may send a man to Congress if you please, but unless that man acts 

 well his part when he gets there, you have only made his failure more con- 

 spicuous; you have conferred upon him no favor; the position gives him no 

 honor. It is only his conduct when he is placed in position that gives him 

 or entitles him to honor. 



