404 Reading-Course for Farmers' Wives. 



" I must say that your question blanks are very interesting. The 

 reason for my not returning them is that I am doing my own housework, 

 and with quite a family to do for, neglect to write, that is all." 



" I enjoy these Reading-Courses very much, if I am slow about 

 answering. I read them all, but there are so many others that are able to 

 answer these questions so much better than I, that my papers are not of 

 much account, but I would like the course next winter to study just 

 the same." 



" Your Reading-Course is of the greatest value and most benefit to 

 me of any book or magazine that I have read. Without it I would be 

 lost. I have read and saved every Bulletin you sent to me. I am a very 

 poor hand for writing, and this is the only reason for my not answering 

 your Discussion-paper, but my not returning it does not infer that it is 

 of no special interest to me, for I think very highly of it. 



" Hoping you will continue sending it to me, and thanking you in 

 advance, I remain." 



" Illness and a multiplicity of cares have prevented me from answer- 

 ing the questions accompanying the Bulletins for the Farmers' Wives the 

 past year as I ought, so take this opportunity of writing you, for I know 

 your work is work, and should be appreciated. Really think it is, as I 

 was with a meeting of our ladies last week after returning home, and 

 heard them discussing what they had learned from reading up the different 

 leaves, with the questions on the Discussion-papers. It was really very 

 interesting and instructive. Only wished you could have been close by to 

 have heard it, and hope no one of them have neglected to answer and 

 send on the questions like myself, for I do think I hardly merit yourl 

 kindness in still sending them to me. 



" Hope I may have time to read up and send on the back leaflets. 

 Hoping you may see the fruits of your labor, I am." 



" I have been much interested in your Bulletins received from time 

 to time, and more especially so in those relating to household affairs and 

 the garden necessarily since my home is in Fredonia. Being bred on a 

 farm, though all my life a teacher, the entire subject appeals to me. I 

 regard your papers on the arrangement of furniture, saving of steps, 

 household adornment, and all the internal economy of the home invaluable, 

 and wish they might reach not only the farm houses, but every village 

 and town home. 



