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" Sanitation." These we have for free distribution in New 

 York State. I don't know as they suggest anything very new, 

 but a few things to remind the women. 



(Question.) Have you anything there to remind the gen- 

 tlemen ? 



Why, yes — the first question in this "Home Decoration." 

 I would say that we sent with the bulletin a quiz, a fourth 

 page, containing perhaps ten or twelve questions which the 

 women answered and sent back to us ; then if they required any 

 correspondence further we sent them letters. The first ques- 

 tion is " Comment on the Attitude of the Men." One woman 

 said, " I made a perfectly lovely silk pillow, and a gentleman 

 had gone and laid his head on it." We have received answers 

 from a great many on that subject, and I want to tell you that 

 almost every lady is in sympathy with that gentleman who laid 

 his head on that pillow, although they say they would make 

 them out of gingham instead of silk. Then, too, out in New 

 York State we are driving our hints straight home to the farm- 

 ers when in this lesson on "Saving Steps" we talk about 

 an ice house, about bringing water into the house, etc. We 

 get very pathetic letters, letters which show to us what is needed 

 perhaps more than anything else. When a woman says that 

 she is becoming tired of the four walls of her kitchen, and she 

 is thankful for a letter which is coming to her regarding her 

 home life, and says, " Remember me in your prayers," when 

 she wants sympathy from some one ; when a woman says that 

 she is very glad to get these lessons because her husband con- 

 siders that it isn't necessary to build a vegetable cellar, that it 

 isn't necessary to build a place for her to keep her provisions, 

 and that it is trot, trot, trot into the kitchen all the time, we 

 can feel that it would be a good thing to put in a few hints for 

 the farmers, so our letters to the farmers' wives are lessons to 

 the farmer and his wife at the same time. 



Mr. Gold. I am reminded just at this point that the last 

 story that I have read in a magazine happens to come in just at 



