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more than any other nation per capita per annum for the education of 

 the children, and yet we have today over 100, (1(H) convicts held for serious 

 crimes, proving that a more useful education is needed. Why should 

 every course in our high schools require two years of algebra in order to 

 graduate a student, and oh\j one year at most of chemistry? Which is 

 needed in life work? The agriculturist, the manufacturer, the house- 

 keeper, all need a knowledge of chemistry, and use all they possess. Do 

 they use their algebra? And j^et unless they pass the required standing 

 in that study the pupil may not have a diploma from any high school in 

 our State. The human mind is not so constructed that two years in 

 algebra are necessary in its development for practical life. This old 

 world shall be transformed through symmetrical education. The foun- 

 tains of learning opened by Athens shall be replete with the knowledge 

 that shall reclaim the world. 



The children of men shall walk in the light of wisdom. Then the sky 

 will be brighter, the streams more silvery, the wooded hillside thornless, 

 and there shall be no sting nor any evil things. No stone shall bruise the 

 feet of those who walk in the path of duty, for it shall be to them a joy 

 and love will be the law of life that has became beautiful through a per- 

 fect knowledge of how to live. The glorious light of that knowledge 

 brings the wisdom that shall transfigure the race. 



THE TRUE HELPMATE. 



ET.LA E. ROCKWOOD. 



God's purpose in creating woman is distinctly made known in the sec- 

 ond chapter of Genesis, M'here he says: "It is not good that man should 

 be alone. I will make him an helpmeet for him." There seems to have 

 been no thought of her living a life of independence or of having any 

 existence apart from that of wife and mother. Yet how great has been 

 the change in this respect when we have about 3,000,000 women in the 

 United States today who are earning their own living, and a goodly pro- 

 portion of them not only doing this, but supporting a husband and chil- 

 dren also! 



We hear much about the desirability and advantages of the life of 

 independence, yet I believe there are few women, if any, who are satisfied 

 with such a life. There is something inherent in woman's nature which 

 likes to lean upon one stronger than herself. Deep down within the 

 bosom of e.very daughter of Eve lies a longing for a home of her own. 

 where love shall reign supreme and where, as wife and mother, she may 

 fulfill the lot of womankind, that which God ordained for her in the 

 beginning of the world. There is, in my estimation, no joy on earth 

 which can compare with this, and as mistress of a happy home she is as 

 truly in her proper sphere today as she was 6,000 years ago. 



THE HONOR OF WIFEHOOD. 



When a man asks a woman to be his wife he confers upon her the high- 

 est possible honor which lies in his power to bestow. Be it much or 

 little, he offers her his all. Whether or not she accepts such an offer, it 

 ought always to be considered as something sacred — too sacred to be 



