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things and you'll have your eyes opened. Some women couldn't bake 

 a loaf of bread properly unless she turned it bottom side up, be- 

 cause it won't brown. This is the point — do you know that the 

 women of this state, and the United States, are keeping our hospitals 

 too full? Do you know that we are employing too many nurses? 

 Just because women don't understand foods. It is not just the mix- 

 ing, but it is the planning of the meal, the right things to put together 

 and whether they bake properly. That family that eats doughy 

 bread year in and year out, mark my word ! they will feel the effects 

 of that in years to come. I want bread properly baked; I want 

 good, wholesome butter; I want the women to can vegetables and 

 fruit; raise that standard and get it, just as fine as possible to eat dur- 

 ing the cold weather, the winter months. During the cold winter 

 mpnths I want her to fill her empty jars with meats to eat during 

 the hot weather. I want her to raise the standard; I want her to 

 understand what she is doing ; I want her to read the lastest work on 

 dietetics. Why shouldn't she? Iowa is the wealthiest state in the 

 Union, but does Iowa's home come up to the standard? We have 

 got to a place where we have money, we can have good pictures, 

 good coloring in the home, good books, good magazines. Let your 

 fair bring that thing out and make our home life better because of 

 the county fair work, and have it so attractive that women will fol- 

 low it with deep regret if they cannot go, and have the exhibit 

 explained in detail so that it in turn will be a reflection of the 

 colleges of our state, the state university, the teachers' college, and 

 Ames, those three state institutions, to say nothing of the many 

 others. Let that fair show what these things mean, so that the 

 people that win a premium will really feel that they went into the 

 game and worked hard and that they have really taken a prize. 

 That is, have a worth-while fair. - 



Is there anything else? 



Question: Would you accept exhibits that are not in the pre- 

 mium list? 



Mrs. Campbell: Well, that's a hard thing for me to decide. 

 Sometimes I think it is a good thing to do it, especially if it is some- 

 thing current, if it came up during the past year, and if it is a 

 necessity to get an educational point over, but I don't think it is a 

 good policy, lots of times, to make exceptions for women who have 

 some little oddity in the way of a decorative novelty that is not 

 so different from others. I wouldn't open up a premium for her 

 unless it is something educational. 



