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We are pleased to see so many, but what a vast army of farmers' 

 wives not here ! They have not yet learned the possibility of drop- 

 ping everything and coming. I believe in a very few years this will 

 be different. All are coming to realize more and more, in order to do 

 things we must see and understand how others do the same things. 

 In order to be good housewives and home makers, good mothers and 

 daughters, we must form pleasant relationships with these very people. 

 Our meeting we have here each year sheds knowledge, light and hap- 

 piness over a whole year, and is of more value to us and our families 

 than a whole year of drudgery would be. Then let us up and be 

 doing, come each one, and, if possible, bring a neighbor or friend and 

 get the benefit and pleasure prepared for us by our great University 

 and our unexcelled State. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



(Miss Louise Stanley, in Charge of Home Economics, University of Missouri.) 



This morning you were welcomed here by a member of the Com- 

 mercial Club of Columbia, by the president of the University and the 

 dean of our College of Agriculture. This afternoon I wish to welcome 

 you in the name of the Home Economics Department of the Univer- 

 sity. We are glad to have you with us, and promise to do all that we 

 can to make your stay here both enjoyable and profitable. As to the 

 Home Makers' Conference, we want you to fed that it is your Con- 

 ference, not ours. AVe are here to help you, but you, too, must help 

 us, and by helping each other we will both be benefited. We want to 

 come into closer touch with the women throughout the State. We 

 want to know your problems, and we want to know your problems 

 from your point of view. We can only know these by your coming 

 here and putting these before us and by entering into the discussions. 

 This year we wish particularly to have much open discussion, so that 

 another year we may know more what you want and heed. 



We are especially glad this year to see so many from away. Each 

 year we want more of you to come and to come from all sections 

 of the State, and we want those of you who are here to become so 

 saturated with enthusiasm for the work that you will go home and 

 organize local home makers' clubs to keep alive all during the year 

 the spirit of this meeting. 



It may not be amiss here to tell something of what Home Eco- 

 nomics in the University stands for. Home Economics is to home 



