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owe if to yourselves, to your children, to your friends and to your 

 country. The poet Whittier has aptly said: 



"The riches of the Commonwealth, 

 Are free, strong- minds and hearts of health. 

 And more to her than gold or grain, 

 The cunning hand and cultured brain." 



CILTUKE IN THE HOME. 



By MISS JKSSIH KIPP. Millerstown, Pa. 



In treating this subject, "Culture in the Home," I wish not only 

 to present it to you in its narrowest sense or term, culture, but 

 also in a broader one, "Education in the home." 



Culture is derived from the Latin verb, "colo" which means "to 

 cultivate," and refers not only to the act or art of tilling the ground, 

 but also to improvement by effort. Culture, in a person, as we 

 usually think of it, may mean a pleasing appearance, gracious man- 

 ners, thoughtf illness for others, respect for superiors; these com- 

 bined will make a cultured person and are really acquired only by 

 much effort. It is not of this culture we wish to speak so much as 

 improvement hy effort which naturally must lead to the developing 

 and cultivating of the physical, intellectual and moral faculties, 

 which is education. 



Broadly speaking, the whole of life is an education and life itself 

 in all its phases is the great school. Every agency of civilization 

 is an education. Every human situation is an educational situation. 

 Living is itself learning. Life itself the school and the spirit of the 

 world, himself the teacher. Two social institutions along with other 

 functions are consciously engaged in education. One of these is the 

 home, the other the church. Each of these has something else to do 

 besides educate, yet neither can do its proper work without edu- 

 cation. 



Originally, the home was the centre and base of society. The 

 home Avas society. Before the school, the church, the state, the 

 home was. Within modern times the home has lost much that 

 made it what it was; its duties have been given over to the school 

 and church, responsibilities which were once seriously assumed by 

 parents have been lightly rolled off upon other's shoulders. Within 

 the memory of some present, the home was a place of varied and 

 vital activities. The father and the boys plowed, sowed, reaped; 

 raised horses and cattle and sheep; dragged out firewood and lumber 

 from the forest; drew or carried grain to mill and brought back 

 bran, shorts and flour; they made and mended simple tools, and 

 built houses and barns. The mother and the daughters baked, 

 cooked, made butter, cheese, jellies; spun and wove; sewed and knit; 

 learned and practiced millinery and dressmaking. Wnat a place 

 for educating the boy or the girl was the old time farm! 



