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adapted to woman's efforts and on the fruit ranch we find her playing 

 a most important part. 



''In good orcharding a spirit of care, patience, gentleness and atten- 

 tion to every detail, all feminine attributes, we gladly recognize. Gener- 

 osity and unselfishness — traits distinctly feminine— undoubtedly made 

 their greatest impression in horticulture when Eve gave Adam the ap- 

 ple in the Garden of Eden. To be sure, friends, this act resulted in the 

 downfall of man and in his expulsion from Paradise, but is there any 

 question but that he may have been out of his sphere? 



"In the prunning, thinning, picking and packing of fruits, the gentler 

 tendencies are developed, if we would handle our more delicate crops 

 efficiently. Soft, tender expression that bids the consumer come and 

 receive is the potent force that builds a magnificient business. In the 

 aesthetic field the line of my subject appeals to all. Volumes of love 

 and admiration have been written on our horticultural vocation. All 

 our Michigan fruits lend a charm and beauty sung by poets. In the 

 realm of the apple world, we find the Mother, surely not a recent or- 

 ganization, but an old standard sort and is there anything artificial 

 * about the lovely Fanny, the meek and retiring lady or the modest Maid- 

 en's Blush, and lastly we have real, genuine beauty in the Shiawassee 

 from my own county, if you please, yours truly, being the exception 

 lat proves the rule. I thank you." 



Mr. Garfield: 



"I will ask Mr. Reinhold of the Western State Normal to say a few 

 words on 'Educating Toward Something.' " 



Professor Reinhold : 



"Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen : The person who was to 

 respond to this toast is President Waldo but he called me this evening: 

 after I had dinner and asked me to come here in his place. First, of 

 all, I want to bring to you the greetings of this man. Mr. Waldo is a 

 man who has a large, profound and sincere knowledge, understanding 

 and sympathy not only for things educational, but for things practical 

 and particularly for things of the farm. Every student of the Western 

 State Normal is interested in the farm and T bring you greetings from 

 this institution and from the teachers of the great public school system 

 of Michigan. I merely want to say that the public school as an institu- 

 tion is striving hard, with might and main, to know and appreciate the 

 practical problems of life, whether they are in the city, in the country, 

 on the farm, in the home or anywhere. As to the subject 'Educating for 

 Something' you will understand that your Toastmaster did not have 

 an opportunity to tell me how he wanted this worked out so I may not 

 say what he had planned for me to say. In a general way, I will say 

 that you should congratulate yourselves on having the school system you 

 have in this state. Education worth anything must be education for 

 something and it must be something definite. It must be to knowledge 

 that is worth while; it must be to something that is practical. Men 

 have always tried to teach their children to be something worth while 

 and to do something worth while. In order to do this we must teach 

 and practice the practical things. Practicability is the watchword of the 

 day. It has always been and probably always will be the watchword of 

 education. In thinking of this on my way down this evening, I came to the 

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