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To turn to the other side of it, I have in mind two persons, we 

 will call them John and Mary. John earned $18 a week and Mary 

 was the daughter of a good family. Her father was a man who 

 earned a moderate salary, but had provided a good living for her, 

 and in the meantime, Mary had become very extravagant in her 

 ways; and, to make a long story short, John and Mary were married. 

 When John went home to the first meal, Mary had made some 

 ' biscuit. He sampled the biscuit, concluded he didn't Jike those 

 biscuit very well, and about that time the cat came along, one of 

 the biscuit fell otf the table, hit the cat and that was the end of 

 poor kitty. Next time he came home, he tried to choke down the 

 beefsteak, and had to go to the saloon for something to eat. Things 

 went from bad to worse and sooner or later, the matrimonial bark 

 was wrecked on the rock of Mary's inefficiency. Mary was a high 

 school graduate. She studied her Latin, her Cicero, geometry, alge- 

 bra, had the whole outfit, but when John came home, he couldn't 

 drink coffee made from the extract of 50 quadratics, we will say. He 

 couldn't eat bread baked in the devil's coffin, he couldn't eat hash 

 made of permutations and commutations of quadratics; he had to 

 have something wholesome to eat. So you see Mary's education 

 did not function when it came to keeping John's house. She had 

 failed iu the divine duty that she was supposed to do in life, making 

 a good home. I think the nation depends upon the efficiency of 

 the home to a certain extent. The mother, I am sure, is the largest 

 factor in the American home. She is 90% of the American home. 

 Doesn't it stand to reason that if Mary had not had quite so much 

 geometry and algebra and Cicero and Virgil and all that stuff, 

 and if in addition to that she had had something practical, don't 

 you think it Avould have been better for Mary? Don't you think 

 it would have been better for John? I think you see the point I 

 want to make. 



To illustrate another point, which is my last one, I wish to tell 

 you a story of two sisters I have in mind that were left a farm. 

 These two sisters were both college graduates, one of them was 

 teaching for |1,800 and the other for $2,000 a year. They thought 

 they would run that farm for a while and they went home; they 

 engaged a neighbor to manage the farm by the name of Joseph. 

 My, wasn't Joseph proud to be manager! He worked from morn- 

 ing until night, Sundays, holidays, most all the time, he was so 

 proud to be manager of that farm. The girls after a while thought 

 they would go out and visit the other farms and get some new 

 ideas. They went out and saw that the other people were conduct- 

 ing the Babcock Milk Test. They went home and told Joseph. He 

 did not want to do it but was finally compelled to do it. Later 

 they saw the other people around the country were washing their 

 hands before they milked and they told Joseph they wanted him 

 to wash his hands before milking, and he said that he washed them 

 once a day and that was enough; and sooner or later on account 

 of Joseph's unprogressiveness, he was released from the position. 

 In the meantime, he had married the kitchen girl, and the girls 

 had built the two a nice little cottage and they were indeed very 

 happy. That made it necessary to get another girl from the woods. 

 She came from the back-woods, had never even seen a train of cars. 

 Her language was very poor, her walk was bad, her dress was a 



