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the cliild, waiting on him and making him selfish and arrogant, but 

 guide and direct the unfolding mind and teach him to be prompt, 

 honest, obedient and self reliant, and to feel that in his upward 

 trend he is like a ship at sea. 



"Love is the glowing quenchless fires 

 By coals of pure thoughts fed; 

 Will is the stream that still aspires 

 To reach some goal ahead. 



"Determination, the engines strong 

 That faith well oiled will keep, 

 And courage the lookout, tho tried long 

 Must not one moment sleep." 



Then we must do what we can to have our public school system 

 different, so we can have the principles of agriculture taught in 

 country schools. I know this will take agitation, but it will bring 

 results, and if the child will have the proper education in home and 

 school and decides to be a farmer, he will be one who will be a 

 credit to either farm or office, and will be awake to all best methods 

 and be an honor to American citizenship. 



THOUGHTS FOR THE HOUSE MOTHER. 



Mks. Mauv a. Wallace, Pittsburg, Pa. 



Housewifery in these days is too little appreciated. Its import- 

 ance not only to the family, but to the state and nation, is under- 

 estimated by women in general. They seem to have lost sight of 

 the fact that the highest art known to mankind is the art of house- 

 keeping. To be able to cook, to mend, to sew, to be efficient in what 

 we understand as domestic science, is of infinitely more importance 

 than equipment in Greek, Latin, Literature and Music. It is cer- 

 tainly true that these homely accomplishments and virtues are a 

 source of greater happiness and comfort in the home than all the 

 other so-called higher accomplishments. 



What is needed in this day and generation is the elevation of 

 the science and art of housekeeping, to that of the other arts and 

 sciences. It is a lamentable fact that the girls of today will work 

 in stores, shops, and factories, at well-nigh starvation wages, rather 

 than do housework. Last spring I was talking with a young lady 

 whom circumstan(;es had made necessary that she earn her own 

 living. In the course of our conversation she told me she was 

 going to work in Blank's store, in Ell wood City, the next week. I 

 inquired as to her salary, when slie replied ''three dollars a week until 

 September; after that, four dollars, except during the holidays, five 

 dollars." ''Oh," I said, "Mary, wdiy don't you do housework; I can 

 give you the name of half a dozen good women who need your ser- 

 vices, and wiio will give you the same wages, and your boarding 

 and room besides." She replied, "Mrs. Wallace, I would like to; 

 I just love to do housework; but you know it's so degrading. A 



