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own experience, while from the scientific side women, were dis- 

 cussed as wage earners, economic methods were demonstrated and 

 food values were explained. 



The professor of eugenics from Montana University gave some 

 interesting as well as instructive facts on. the subject. He would 

 in no way have Cupid overlooked, and love eliminated from the 

 matrimonial world, but for the physical and moral interests of the 

 race he laid stress upon the fact that people should "fall in love 

 intelligently." 



So much for some of the people in the great movement; now 

 for a few of the hopes and aims to be accomplished. Women of 

 the cities have long had an unquestioned advantage over those of 

 rural districts. The business man of the town has had the ad- 

 vantage over the man on the farm until within, the past decade, 

 but now the farmer is fast coming into his own place in the social 

 and intellectual world. The farm woman, however, has not kept 

 pace with the progress of the times. Where there were improve- 

 ments made, new machinery installed, labor-saving devices experi- 

 mented withj they have been for the farmer himself. His good 

 wife has been plodding along at the same pace set years ago, endur- 

 ing hardships of toil and privation, and suffering herself to be 

 unknown, to the social world. The unit of all prosperity is the 

 home; the important factor in the home is the mother; the nation's 

 greatest asset is the child. So at once we see the important role 

 home makers play in the great drama of life. One great aim of 

 the congress is to cause an awakening among farm women ; to show 

 them how much more they can get out of life; to bring them in 

 touch with the outside world and make of them social beings in- 

 stead of beasts of burden. We want to improve farming, always, 

 and to improve home making as well. So uninteresting and unat- 

 tractive has the farm woman's life been that the tendency has been 

 for girls to leave their country homes for the towns and cities. One 

 chord was sounded throughout the Lethbridge meeting for giving 

 women a woman.'s education, not a man's. One speaker was re- 

 sponsible for the idea that an educated man is but a man still, 

 while an educated woman means an educated family and a refined 

 home. 



One of the first marks of civilization was when women quit the 

 the fields and went into the house to make it home, and the stand- 

 ing of any nation in the civilized world is measured by the way its 

 women are treated. 



