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The following committees were appointed : Nominating com- 

 mittee: Miss Stanley, Mrs. Wilson and Mrs, Ed. Hall; scoring com- 

 mittee, Mrs. Bettie Gentry, Miss Nelle Nesbitt and Miss Louise 

 Daniels; resolutions committee, Mrs. Cora Chapin, Mrs. Alford and 

 Mrs. Sturgis. 



Third Day — Thursday, January 16. 



The conference opened at ten o'clock with an address by Miss 

 Edna D. Day, formerly of the home economics department of Mis- 

 souri University, but now of Kansas University, on "The Problem 

 of the Girl." She brought out the fact that many girls take up 

 work without any preparation, thinking it will be temporary, look- 

 ing toward ultimate marriage. This results frequently in dissatis- 

 fied women who are not equipped for the work undertaken. 

 Modern home making, she said, was more a matter of wise ex- 

 penditure than of production, as in former years. The girl is 

 prepared in this age for home making as well as qualified by edu- 

 cation to take up a vocation if she chooses. Miss Day strongly 

 urged the earning young woman to save a portion of her salary, 

 thereby forming careful habits as well as preparing for the ''rainy 

 day." She said the average girl was not content to stay at home 

 and keep her mother company alone, but naturally wanted to be an 

 earner, and she advised that they be given a share in the home 

 profits. 



Mr. M. E. Darby, State Apiary Inspector, spoke on "Women as 

 Bee Keepers." He thought as a branch of agriculture it was sadly 

 neglected, and that it could be made remunerative. He recom- 

 mended reading a number of bee journals and the study of a good 

 textbook on bee culture. The hives, he said, should be placed in 

 the back yard, and have shade during the warm weather, but a 

 house to shelter them was not necessary. He believed the Italian 

 bees to be the best variety, and advised the use of the best improved 

 hives. He believed everyone should have a good smoker, since smoke 

 was a necessity toward subduing the bees. He showed the dress 

 used for protection; also models of hives, traps and specimens of 

 comb. 



The question box on "Care of Flowers" was answered by Mr. 

 Horace Major, the landscape gardener of Missouri University. He 

 said that flowers should be given necessary care, but not handled 

 too much or fussed over; that ferns from the woods could not 

 always be grown in the house in the winter, but if kept for a while 



