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Education is best denned as the process through which the individual 

 realizes herself — makes her fit to live in the institutions of civilization, to 

 co-operate with them, and to enjoy their friends. Colleges are the open 

 door to such realizations. The college education of women has been and 

 will be the greatest aid to self realization. Women students have met 

 men in almost every field of human understanding and have little to re- 

 gret in the showing made. Colleges and universities are opening wide 

 their doors to young women and their halls are thronged. The college 

 woman is proving an ideal wife and mother. She is the joy and adorn- 

 ment of her home combining as she does excellent taste in furnishing 

 her home, devotion in rearing her children and an industry and practic- 

 ability, which insures domestic happiness and prosperity. Such a woman 

 is as expert in the kitchen as she is graceful and cordial in the parlor 

 She can adapt herself to any circumstance in which she may be placed. 

 If success smile on her husband, and they have a competency, she will 

 be equal to gracing his home and moving easily in the best social circle. 

 If the hired help should go on a strike a good dinner would be forth- 

 coming anyway. If the wheel of fortune turns" in the wrong direction 

 such a woman is ready to assume her share of the burdens, to encourage, 

 to assist, to make sacrifice and if need be to put her own talents and 

 ability into the commercial field. An educated woman's home should be 

 among the best ordered households extant. Systematic industry, studious 

 application and methodical division of time tells in the household as in 

 any other department of labor. The wail against the servitude of the 

 housekeeper does not arise from the woman of the trained mind. While 

 a knowledge of Latin or Greek does not exactly aid in the scrubbing of a 

 kitchen floor or cleaning of the sink, yet the disicipline of those studies 

 do help in the management of household affairs and in no way hinder the 

 effectiveness of the scrubbing. It is the woman, mediocre in mind, extra- 

 gant as to dress, simply desirous of the momentary pleasures of personal 

 ease, whose chief recreations are gadding, gossiping and picture shows, 

 it is this woman whose home is neglected, whose children run the streets, 

 whose tables are furnished from tin cans and the bake shops, and whose 

 husband furnishes the patron for the billiard hall and the drunk shop. 



Educated motherhood shall be judged in the last analysis by her chil- 

 dren. The mystical web of the "Lady of Shallott" becomes uninteresting 

 and inane beside the tapestry of human character which mothers weave 

 in the rearing of their children. This tapestry which will outlive the 

 stars and which is to furnish the future temple of Fame. I want to 

 enumerate a few of the characteristics of such a mother. 



An educated mother does not accept her child as perfect. She does 

 not shut her eyes to facts — she accepts her child as human, therefore im- 

 perfect, and with never ceasing love and care trains it in the way it 

 should go. She does not condone impudence by calling it smartness, nor 

 disobedience by calling it high spirit, nor selfishness as knowing how to 

 take care of number one, nor untruthfulness as sharpness, nor laziness 

 as being not feeling well. Her mother love recognizes these evils, and 

 does its best to eradicate them. She will teach her children the primary 

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