WOMEN'S SECTION OF THE STATE ROUND-UP. 



Mrs. Mary A. Mayo presided at all sessions. 



Mrs. Mayo: This is our Fifth Annual Round-up Institute. At the 

 hotel I met ladies from every quarter of our State, farmers' wives who 

 have left their homes and home cares and have come down to this, our 

 University City, to attend this meeting this afternoon, which we trust 

 will be of benefit to us all. If twenty-five years ago someone had 

 brought the program we have here this afternoon and placed it before 

 us, and said that twenty-five years from now you, as farmers' wives, 

 will come in a convention of your own, and there you will meet a dean 

 from the Agricultural College — a lady; you will also meet a professor 

 of sewing, what would our mothers and grandmothers have thought? 

 They could hardly have believed it. But we have come this afternoon 

 because we have been invited to come. The University of this city has 

 asked us to come and meet with you. We are glad to come that we 

 may know you better. There is not a farmer's wife in Michigan, loyal 

 to the best interests of the State, whose heart does not go out lo the 

 University of Michigan. We are proud for what it has done for all 

 the states of the Union. 



. HABIT AND MANNERS. 



MISS MAUD R. KELLER, DEAN OF THE WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT, AGRICULTURAL 



COLLEGE, MICHIGAN. 



The aims and efl'orts of the Women's Section of the Farmers' Insti- 

 tutes seem to be along ethical lines. The men's sections are discussing 

 rotation of crops, cultivation of sugar beets, sheep raising, so-called 

 ''practical" subjects. The women are working toward social reforms, 

 toward uplifting conditions and ideals. Their questions are how to 

 right wrongs; how to make schools centers of learning — not facts only, 

 but the learning and practicing of unselfishness, gentleness, of ground- 

 ing children in ideas of right. With such aims before us, it is to our 

 advantage to think for a while about the power of habit, its physical 

 basis, the importance of attention to habit in children, the significance 

 of the word manners and its connection with habit. 



If we understand the physical basis of habit it will help us to under- 

 stand whv habits once formed are so strong; whv it is as hard to break 



