64 Thirty-Sixth Annual Rkpokt of the 



ne;e:d of literature. 



The progressive farmer of today needs no urging to supply 

 his family with abundant and suitable reading matter, therefore, 

 the country woman may be as well informed on both foreign and 

 domestic subjects as one who resides in a city, and with the help- 

 ful influence of natural surroundings ther-e is no reason why the 

 hojne on the farm may not become a veritable paradise. 



To THE MEN, 



While the task of home-making is more generally supposed 

 to devolve on the woman of a family, each member, great or 

 small, should bear a responsibility and take both interest and ac- 

 tion in preserving the dignity of home life, be it lowly or grand. 

 Some men are utterly unconscious of the fact that they have 

 formed an entirely erroneous idea of woman and her claims upon 

 them. They are unable to comprehend the real nature and char- 

 acteristics of the true type of an intelligent, refined woman. They 

 do not know how to draw out and develop her finest qualities any 

 better than some farmers understand managing a dairy cow to 

 obtain best results. 



They are laboring under the impression that all women are 

 vain, frivolous, irresponsible creatures that should be firmly held 

 in subjection, that if a man is unable to provide one with fine 

 clothes, jewelry and social amusement she will soon become dis- 

 contented and wretched. A greater mistake was never made. 

 The real woman doesn't care for fine clothes, jewelry or social 

 position. If she favors them, it is only because she believes 

 such adornment and position will make her more pleasing in 

 the eyes of the man she loves. Women were born to make be- 

 lieve, and I have known them to serenely smile while their hearts 

 were breaking. No, she does not hinge her happiness on lux- 

 urious raiment. If she cannot command something better, she'll 

 take it, just as a starving cow will eat straw when she can't get 

 hay, but she'll not thrive and develop all the tender possibilities 

 that lie within the fertile soil of a glorious nature. 



Vv'^hat she does desire above all things is appreciation, love 

 and petting. It doesn't cost anything. She'll never tell you, 

 for the woman I have in mind is too proud to beg for what right- 

 fully belongs to her. When you have taken this girl to share 

 your fortune of either weal or woe, when you, by your protesta- 

 tions of love and fidelity, have severed the ties that bound her to 

 the home of her girlhood, when she has willingly forsaken father 

 and mother to cling only unto you, make it your life long study 



