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and herself and husband all the stockings and mittens and com- 

 forters they needed. And I have seen the milk on the shelf, 

 and the dozen pies which she made every Saturday afternoon. 

 (My wife says she doesn't believe it, but it is a fact.) Her 

 heart was in the work, and I never heard her complain. And 

 she lived to be ninety-three years old. It isn't work that hurts. 

 When the heart is right work is a pleasure. I believe in mak- 

 ing it as easy as you can for your wife in doing the work. We 

 are not living in the days when we required so much of our 

 wives and daughters as we used to, but it is wrong, as the lady 

 has said, to bring up our children so that they will not know 

 how to make a loaf of bread or a good cake, or to sweep the 

 house or mend a stocking. What is a girl for, if she is going 

 to be the wife of some person, if she doesn't know how to do 

 the first thing that is required of a prudent wife? The question 

 of housekeeping today is going to be a serious one, a serious 

 one. We cannot depend upon help as we have done in the 

 past, neither out doors nor in, from the fact that it is more 

 amusement and more pleasure that the young are looking for 

 rather than for anything else. 



The President. The next number on our programme will 

 be a lecture by Dr. G. P. Clinton of New Haven on " Diseases 

 of the Potato in Connecticut." 



DISEASES OF THE POTATO IN CONNECTICUT. 



By Dr. G. P. Clinton, New Haven. 



Ladies and Gentlemen : Some of these troubles that I am 

 to speak about are shown by photographs of the Experiment 

 Station, which are in the room below, so that people who are 

 interested especially in that subject can get some general idea 

 from those pictures. 



There are many food plants more aristocratic than the ple- 

 beian potato, but few that are more useful. The former kind 

 we use occasionally to whet our flagging appetite, but for the 

 people of the temperate zone no plant, save wheat alone, sur- 



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