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school in the State, We require our young men to prepare 

 themselves for their life work and to demonstrate their ability 

 before we are willing to give our daughters into their keeping, 

 but do we require that our daughters be prepared for their life 

 work at marriage? 



Recently it was my good fortune to listen to a demonstra- 

 tion by Miss Bab Bell of the Missouri State Board of Agricul- 

 ture, and ever since I have wondered how we might bring just 

 such talks to every woman in our State. It occurs to me that 

 your conference might join hands with the agricultural depart- 

 ment of the State, and with the active co-operation of the 

 State Federation we might induce the railroads to furnish a 

 domestic science car which would be constantly going from one 

 town to another (and please do not neglect the city also) giving 

 a perpetual demonstration of an ideal kitchen (with talks on 

 kitchen sanitation, etc.), a simply-furnished bedroom (with 

 talks on bed making, etc.), giving certain hours to lessons and 

 other set times to inspection and exposition. 



I have one other suggestion: Our State Federation is 

 taking steps to hold a club woman's day at our State Fair next 

 fall. May we have the help and co-operation of your Home 

 Makers' Conference in making that a profitable as well as a 

 happy day? 



I assure you of my sincere good will toward your ofTicers 

 and members, and bid you an earnest Godspeed in all your 

 efforts. 



OUR WORK AND OUR PLANS. 



(Bab Bell, woman's institute lecturer, Missouri State Board of Agriculture.) 



The Missouri Home Makers' Conference held its seventh 

 annual meeting in Columbia January 12th to 16th during 

 Farmers' Week. Probably every woman of the State knows 

 what Farmers' Week is, but how few know the real meaning 

 of the Home Makers' Conference. 



The Home Makers' Conference was first organized in 1908 

 while Dr. Edna Day, now of Kansas University, was the head 

 of the home economics department in the University of Mis- 

 souri. The main object of this organization is to unify the 

 housekeepers of Missouri (town and country) in an effort to 

 better their own home conditions and to help future homes by 



