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and its Relation to the Child," setting forth the necessity of 

 caring for the teeth of the very young child. Tuesday after- 

 noon Mrs. Marie T. Harvey, in an illustrated address, showed 

 us the possibilities of the one-room school as an efTicient insti- 

 tution. Her pictures and talk would bid the discouraged 

 teacher laboring under most adverse conditions to take heart 

 and go to work for better things. 



Wednesday morning Miss Caroline Hunt of the nutrition 

 investigation department of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C, gave a very interesting and in- 

 structive address on "The Art of Bill of Fare Making." 



Thursday morning delegates and visitors to the Inter- 

 national Congress of Farm Women experienced the pleasure 

 of partaking of a breakfast scientifically prepared by Miss 

 Hettie Starr, teacher of domestic science in the Edmond, Okla., 

 Normal School. She cooked in full view of the audience, at 

 the same time preparing the dinner meal (part of which was put 

 to cook in a fireless cooker) and lecturing on the subject assigned 

 her, "Three Meals a Day." 



Mrs. J. A. McKenzie of Alberta, Canada (sister of Mrs. 

 Harbert), and who is manager of the Canadian Pacific Rail- 

 road's large poultry farm, gave a very interesting address on 

 "The Why and How of Poultry Raising as a Successful Business 

 for the Farm," "Dairying and Its Place in the Farm Home," 

 "Dangers to Public Health from Public Milk Supplies and How 

 to Control Them," "Co-operation from the Producer's Stand- 

 point," "Co-operation from the Consumer's Standpoint," "The 

 Furnishing of the Farm Home," and many other very inter- 

 esting and vital questions to the farm woman were handled 

 by men and women of national reputation. All phases of farm 

 life — material, physical, mental, social and spiritual — were ably 

 discussed. 



One of the finest things of the whole congress to me was 

 the inspirational address given by Miss Jessie Fields of New 

 York, national secretary of the Young Women's Christian 

 Association, on "The Life of the Rural Girl." In her address 

 Miss Fields emphasized the need of the awakening and develop- 

 ing of the rural girl into her best possibilities. To me it was a 

 delight to know that at last the splendid organization of the 

 Young Women's Christian Association has seen the wisdom of 

 reaching out and touching the life of the rural girl. Only a few 

 years ago they did not deem Young Women's Christian Associa- 



