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of efficiency, and that bring efficiency. Several times during this 

 last winter in my work, it" 1 may come to a personal remark or two 

 that has been made to me, someone will say, "You always talk 

 for the women; don't you believe the men belong anywhere in this 

 plan of homemakiug?" I certainly do believe the men belong in 

 this plan of home-making and I fully believe that no home is com- 

 plete without the man element and the man nature in it, just as 

 you men know a home is not complete without the women in it; 

 in fact you have no home, no real home, without a woman in it. 

 So do I believe that no home is complete without the man in it, 

 and we only have to remember the homes where the men have gone 

 out and the sorrow and the loneliness and loss that is there, to know 

 the one is not complete, that no home is complete without both 

 natures in it. You know the little couplet that says, "As unto the 

 bow the cord is, so unto man is woman; and tliough she bends 

 him, she obeys him; though she draws him, yet she follows; useless 

 one without the other." And what is true in the home, friends, I 

 believe is true everywhere. Men and women were meant to live 

 togther and work together and we cannot seperate them. It is not 

 a question of efficiency here for the w'oman and efficiency there for 

 the man, but both working together that brings out the true ef- 

 ficiency in the home, the true efficiency everywhere there is work to 

 be done in this world of ours. 



I was interested not very long ago in an article about efficiency 

 in the business world, where a business journal was advising the 

 business world what would bring efficiency to business everywhere, 

 and it seems to me that the very thing that will bring efficiency 

 im the business world, will bring efficiency in the home world, and 

 so may I give you the thought that you cannot get the most out of 

 your business unless you are able to get the most out of yourself. 

 You must feel right; you must be on your tip-toes all the time; and 

 yet I know that many will say, "I couldn't work on my tiptoes all 

 the time." It may be too much to expect that a man shall be right 

 at his highest efficiency all the time; but that is the mark at which 

 you should aim; in other words, if you cannot be on your tip-toes 

 all the time, keep yourself there as. much of the time as possible; 

 keep yourself there not by working on your nerve, but by keeping 

 physically fit so that you can develop high efficiency without speed- 

 ing up the engine too fast. In automobile language, we are told 

 that you can keep on high speed as easily and as economically as 

 on low if you use the right grade of gasoline; and the right grade 

 of gasoline in this case of efficiency for us friends is simply a com- 

 bination of natural diet, pure air, recreation and the glad hand for 

 whatever life brings to you; and I believe there is so much in 

 that question of the glad hand, the facing of the things we have 

 to meet and facing them believing that it is all right and that 

 you and I can face them and that we will put them through in 

 a manner that is wise and well, because efficiency is the word that 

 means the things that are to be in the home and the training that 

 we women ought to have. 



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