328 Missouri State Horticultural Society. 



Gardening may be carried on to a limited extent, and the cul- 

 tivation of flowers may be made a specialty. Lima beans are 

 quite easily raised apiid sell for a good price in the fall. Sweet corn 

 may likewise be raised with some profit, even if some of the gain 

 is lost in defraying the expense of hiring the harder part of the 

 labor. Gardening, too, has the great advantage of being a decid- 

 edly healthy occupation. 



A few years ago, a young girl who, from all appearances, was 

 fatally ill with consumption, went to a country home and amused 

 herself in the garden when she felt strong enough. She found the 

 health-giving properties of the soil and recovered. She declared 

 that the spade was her doctor. 



Kaising poultry is a paying occupation and one very largely 

 engaged in. Eggs, if sold at the proper time, bring in the course 

 of a year, quite a large sum. Bee-keeping is suid to be a very 

 profitable and not very laborious employment. 



But we would not entirely overlook the domestic arts. In 

 order to be a successful house-keeper, the lady of the liouse must 

 be a good manager, for if 



" The butcher, the baker 

 And the candlestick maker " 



are left to themselves, they will charge exorbitantly. Quite often 

 men leave the control of such matters to their wives, and is it not 

 a good way for a man burdened with business cures to give his wife 

 an allowance and let her run the house ? But whatever may be 

 said about a woman's other accomplishments, I think the science of 

 cookery should not be omitted. 



Emerson says : " There is always a best way of doing anytJiing, 

 if it be but to boil an egg." It has been said that the best way to 

 approach a man is by means of his stomacli ; and as we all often 

 want to approach a man on the right side, we want to be good 

 cooks. 



It is said of the modern belle : 



" She had views on co-education 

 And the principal needs of the nation : 

 And her glasses were blue, and the numbers she knew 

 Of the stars in each high constellation. 

 And she wrote in hand-writing clerky, 

 And she talked with an emphasis jerky , 

 And she painted on tiles, in the sweetest of styles. 

 But she didn't know chicken from turkey." 



Can this be said of all modern young ladies ? 



