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Some women make their own unhappiness when, if they tried equally 

 as hard to be happy, they would be so. Be loyal and true, make the best of 

 your life as it comes, try to be the very best wife and mother you, can, 

 and remember those solemn words, ''for better for worse, so long ap vou 

 both shall live." 



"Into our lives and our own hearts 

 Shadows will some times fall: 

 But the sunshine never is wholly dead, 

 And heaven Ues shadowless over head, 

 And God is over alL" 



DISCUSSION. 



Q. How cau this matter of divorce be remedied? 



Mrs. Irma T. Jones: If we are wise enough to train onr children to the responsi- 

 bility of marriage — to the kind of man or woman they marry as the fathers and 

 mothers of children imborn— it would obviate in a large measure the divorce cases. 



Q. Is there anj-thing in heredity? 



Mrs. Sibley: Is heredity nothing? No. Let us be very careful how we think 

 and feel toward the unborn child. If we desire to take the little unborn life, we 

 are not sure that we shall not give birth to a murderer. 



Mrs. Johnson: Where shall we look for strength; for help; for comfort? 



Ans. To Christ. 



Miss Louise Miller: So often we are too much engrossed with the physical-^et 

 all you can of the spiritual out of each day. Keep your ideals in view, and strive 

 toward them; look to the highest and best. I would like to recommend three books 

 which are very helpful: "In tune with the Infinite," "What all the world's a seek- 

 ing," "All's right with the world." 



Mrs. D. M. Garner: Can we always be sweet; always be strong; always be kind; 

 always be neat? 



Mrs. Rock wood: No. 



Mrs. Campbell: W^e should educate our girls to be wage spenders as well as we 

 educate our boys to be wage earners. Our criminal classes are increasing much 

 faster than our population. 



Q. How would you manage your husband, as his helpmate, provided he did not 

 care to go into society and you did? 



Mrs. Rockwood: I would stay at home with him. 



Mrs. Wattles: How would you do if there was so much more work to do than 

 you ought to do — than you could do? What is best to do? 



Mrs. Rockwood: I would work as long as I could, then lie down and rest, for 

 ten minutes at any i-ate. 



Mrs. Watkins:* Study what your child likes and dislikes before it goes to school. 

 Study your children. 



Mrs. King: Attend your school meetings. 



Mrs. Hinds: Keep yourselves just as young as you can with your children. 

 Never be too tired to go out when your husband invites you to go with him. Be 

 a helpmate to your husband. Be a partner in your husband's business. 



Mrs. Beardsley: Could we not leave out geometry in our schools? 



Mrs. Campbell: Yes, unless you are educating for the University. 



Mrs. Studley: Cau we have a voice with the school board unless we can have a 

 voice as to who they shall be? 



Ans. Yes. 



Mrs. Elliott: Who shall say where the line sliall divide the necessary from the 

 unnecessary? 



Mrs. Garner: All natural sciences should be taught in our schools, but not higher 

 mathematics. 



Mrs. Jones: Could you suggest where we should begin to introduce manual 

 training? 



Mrs. Campbell: Begin with the women— the intelligent women— with those who 

 have comfortable homes. 



Mrs. King: What good has the study of algebra done us? 



Mrs. Richmond: Is not algebra necessary to higher mathematics? 



Mrs. Campbell: Yes, necessary; but how many use it in future life? 



