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given up her professional work in order to be married. As she sat at 

 the table and saw the ease and simplicity of the service and the interest 

 of the young women assisting, she said very wistfully, " Oh! I wish I 

 knew how to keep house; but you see I have never had time to learn, for 

 I have been in school all my life." That young woman is one of many 

 who make the same complaint. It is a travesty on our system of education 

 for women to stand thus helpless before the task of home-making, which 

 sooner or later the majority of them will assume. 



The wealth of a nation is said to be its life, and life begins in the home. 

 Women are the mothers of the race and the entire subject of home eco- 



Fig. 49. — Institute workers of 1913 entertained in the cafeteria of the Home 



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nomics centers around the child. Life means not merely thought for the 

 material comforts of to-day, not transient happiness for the, individual, 

 but intelligent consideration of posterity, of the happiness and welfare of 

 children. 



How will the human race be affected if the mothers are left untrained? 



woman's place in the scheme of agricultural education 



(Abstract of remarks by Dean Bailey before the Girls' Club of the 



College of Agriculture, November 11, 19 10) 



You may ask me why I need to raise the question of woman's place in 



any scheme of education. The reason is purely historical. Woman has 



not had her recognized place in schemes of education. 



