140 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE., 



is not responsible for tliese things. I think these things go back of the college 

 training— these habits exist before students enter college. However, I believe in 

 some cereal a good deal, so as to supply the brain power that stndents will need 

 before dinner time. I think some good meat or egg should be eaten for breakfast. 

 I can tell yon, if you like, what we have for breakfast at the Agricultural OoUege, 

 in the women's boarding, club: "We liave various kinds of cereals, cocoa, milk and 

 coffee. (If girls like milk, it is good for them. In our college she is getting a train- 

 ing as to what foods are best, and when she knoAvs this she must decide for herself.) 

 We don't have meat every morning. On Sunday morning Ave have fruit. 



Mrs. Condant: I took .so much comfort from the paper by Miss Smith. I think 

 she was misunderstood about the spelling and reading part, for in our country 

 schools they ai"e neglected. In my own home, for instance, the teacher came six 

 miles to teach. He came over one morning and asked me to help him in an educa- 

 tional meeting which they were going to have that evening. I told him I could not, 

 did not know ihow, ami had not the time, but finally consented, and went over and 

 helped Avhat I could; and from that evening's meeting we have two fine libraries in 

 the district. I think the reading and spelling, as a rule, in our country schools ai-e 

 very much neglected. I am glad that Ave are beginning to see that children 

 must be properly educated in the loAver branches to be fit to take the higher grades. 



Mrs. King: As to the food that a child should eat, there are many Avho would not 

 like the cereals. For myself, I Avould starve on them. I like meat, am very fond 

 of it; it is not a good brain food, but fish can be substituted. The country chil- 

 dren' have the advantage that the city children do not have of the fresh air and 

 plenty of exercise. This builds up good muscles and brain, and fits them for the 

 education which they should get— builds the body up Avell prepared to receive in- 

 tellectual food. A diseased body Avill have a diseased brain. I think the educa- 

 tional advantages in the country schools are far better than a feAA^ years ago. 



TOWN AND COUNTRY CLUBS FOR WOMEN. 



MISS KATHERINE M. INGLIS, ALMA COLLEGE. 



Away back in the antediluvian period, when I tii-st bejian to write 

 school essays and papers for debating societies, we had a fashion of com- 

 mencing our productions with "Emerson says.'' He was our fad at that 

 time, and we felt that a remark of his was a good solid foundation on 

 which to build the air castle of our impressions (we mistakenly called 

 them our "thoughts") on any and every subject. 



And "Emerson says" one thing which has been a source of courage 

 and inspiration to me personally ever since I first read it. It is this: 

 "With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." I might never 

 have suspected my own greatness but for that. I have never seen any 

 other sign of it, but measured by the Emersonian standard of my incon- 

 sistency it must bp transcendent. 



And I feel quite oppressed by my greatness as proven by my incon- 

 sistency in speaking to you on the subject of Town and Country Clubs for 

 Women, because some two years ago I firmly resolved that the only 

 society with the organizationof which I should have anything to do would 

 be a society for the cultivation of graceful leisure. For I found myself 

 a member of the church, two study clubs, two missionary societies, the 

 W, C. T. U., and a King's Daughters circle. I found myself a member of 

 so many things, that I felt quite piecemeal and longed to be a whole, how- 

 ever small, and to do something as ray individual self, and not in behalf 

 of any organization. And at this point the idea of the Town and Country 

 Club appeared on our horizon, and I at once ran after that as if it were 

 the rainbow and I expected to find the pot of gold at its end. And more, 

 I am here today to speak of the advantage of an organization like ours. 



