42 The Bulletin 



must learn to live in tliis new South, and the best way is to come together 

 and talk the matter over. 



We now have oiled floors, linoleum, iron beds, washing machines, coal, 

 gasoline and electric irons, gasoline engines, fruit canners, oil stoves, fire- 

 less cookers, waterworks, and so many things to help us which cost far less 

 than slaves or hired help, and if we study our work, how to do it easier, we 

 will have plenty time for reading, club meetings, church work, etc. And we 

 are caring for our health as well, and will not be old and worn out at forty- 

 five years old, as so many mothers are; often dying just when their children 



need them most. ■, ^,, ^ , 



We certainly need to study our business, the grandest and noblest work 



on earth. 



Home Making. 



Cabrie Hudgins. 



The home is the heart of the farm, and the mother the heart of the home. 

 The girls and women have largely the making of our future, and on them 

 rests the responsibility of their being women of the highest type. 



Every woman should form an ideal of a home; not the place, but the char- 

 acter of the home. If love reigns not there, if peace is not a dweller, if 

 charity or contentment are not in the household, then it is no home. 



The home is the greatest institution, and through it must come improve- 

 ment in society; it is the pivot upon which success of the nation depends. 

 Good men and women wield the greatest influences of the day. 



The mother is the social organizer in the home, and in order to be able 

 to fill this position she must give herself some time to the preparation it re- 

 quires. She must have some reading matter, and some time set apart in 

 which to read, that she may be prepared to assist in passing the hpurs pleas- 

 antly when the family meet. She plans her meals by no set rule, neither 

 should she expect to plan her evenings; still they require some thought. 



Parents should try to teach their children four fundamental virtues: hon- 

 esty, reverence, sympathy, and industry. The child is a creature of environ- 

 ment; he needs something besides four walls and a bag of books. Touch the 

 heart and you don't need argument. 



If in training children to face the responsibility as citizens it must be 

 the family that furnishes the highest ideal of humanity. To kill the romance 

 of youth is to blight the future; to kill the girl's ideals and dreams may 

 make a good servant or housewife, but she can never have the delicate 

 charms which are woman's right. Drudgery to keep mother from it is en- 

 nobling, but acts like March wind upon the youth. Man shall not live by 

 bread alone. . 



Of course some country girls and boys go to college, but the majority do 

 not. Too manv have this worked out of them by the home which looks upon 

 it as foolishness. The girls have been left ignorant of the things which mean 

 much to them: the art of being a home-maker, the ability to sew, cook, and 

 make home attractive.. In Europe a girl is supposed to have mastered these 

 arts before going into society. If 'twas so with us learning would be more 

 popular. If the country cannot afford this much time, then it cannot hope 

 to keep the young people on the farm. 



Often when our country women are questioned they say, "Yes, we do not 

 want our sons and daughters to stay on the farm. Too much drudgery. The 

 most of the women's work disappears down the throats of the family and 

 seems to yield no returns." 



Often our boys and girls are leaving the farm because we have not spent 

 enough time in making the home attractive. The wide-awake boy or girl 

 loves fun and must have it. If the home and community do not look after 

 this they are going to look out for themselves in a way that is not always 

 desirable. Swimming is an amusement that boys and girls always enjoy, 

 and if no safe place is provided by the older people they will find places 

 for themselves. The most of the accidents we hear of are boys going in 

 without permission in some secret, hidden-away places. 



