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jects, were tlie leaders of the ecclesiastical revolt. Scandinavia is 

 more purely Teutonic than Germany, and Scandinavia is Protestant 

 to the backbone. The Lowland Scotch, who are more purely Teu- 

 tonic than the English, have given the freest development to the 

 genius of Protestantism." And then the intrepid canon, instead 

 of worrying about theological explanations of the fact, goes on to 

 show that the mean cephalic index (as it is called) of the Protestant 

 Dutch is nearly that of the Swedes and the North Germans; while 

 the Belgians are Catholics because their cephalic index approaches 

 that of the Catholic Parisians. If a Swiss canton is long-headed, 

 it is Protestant; if round-headed, it is Catholic. And Canon Taylor 

 accounts (rightly, as I think) for one apparent British exception by 

 saying shrewdly, " The Welsh and the Cornishmen, who became 

 Protestant by political accident, have transformed Protestantism 

 into an emotional religion, which has inner affinities with the emo- 

 tional faith of Ireland and Italy." 



Unless so distinguished a divine had led the way, I do not know 

 whether I should have ventured myself to follow into this curious 

 by-path of ethnology. But, in future, whenever one is tempted to 

 ask one's self the once famous question, " Why am I a Protestant? " 

 the answer will be obvious: " Because 75 is my cephalic index. If 

 it were 79, I should, no doubt, have become a Dominican brother." 



How charming is divine ethnology! I have said enough, I 

 hope, to show that it is not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, 

 but teeming with odd hints of unsuspected quaintness. — Cornhill 

 Magazine. 



EDUCATIO]^ FOR DOMESTIC LIFE. 



By MAEY ROBEETS SMITH, Ph.D., 



ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGT IN LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY. 



THE need of some kind of education as a basis for every activity 

 is constantly emphasized to-day; but this emphasis is rarely 

 applied to the need of training for domestic life, for which it is 

 usually supposed that any kind of preparation will do. One million 

 six hundred thousand women in the United States are engaged in 

 domestic service, and eleven million one hundred thousand more are 

 married and presumably have some kind of domestic duties. Several 

 writers have called attention recently to the fact that a woman does 

 not necessarily have an instinct for home-making; that while her in- 

 stinct for the care of children may be strong, yet she may lack the 

 skill to make a fire properly or to mix the ingredients of wholesome 

 food. Or she may be skilled in handling modern kitchen appliances, 

 but may lack the knowledge of the effect of exercise, regular hours, 



