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pendent upon the condition of the body. Nor is the mind more- 

 dependent on this than are the morals. It is truly claimed that 

 most intemperance is caused by unsystematic housekeeping and 

 improperly cooked food. Healthful, pure, active, energetie 

 homes insure national prosperity. 



Then educate your daughters equally with your sons. If you 

 are able assist them in getting a practical college education, but 

 do not have your daughter take what is termed the "ladies 

 course," nor insist that she drum on the piano, not thinking 

 whether she has any musical talent or not. The time when 

 woman was either merely a drudge or a useless doll-like orna- 

 ment is now past. Future generations will not be telling what 

 an immense amount of wealth and silver and great number of 

 servants their grandmother had, but rather what noble deeds she 

 performed and what wonderful inventions she made. Truly, as 

 regards woman "one decade of this nineteenth century is worth 

 a century of yonder sterile time." 



If upon woman depends to so great an extent our physical, 

 mental, moral, social and national well being, she must have 

 broad, thorough, scientific training. Science is now being ap- 

 plied in every department of work; in agriculture, horticulture, 

 dairying, manufacturing, etc. Why not apply it also in our 

 homes, wherein lie our fondest hopes and which are the founda- 

 tions upon which we inevitably build our success or our failure, 

 both national and individual. The opportunity to prepare her- 

 self for work is now offered to woman, and there are varied occu- 

 pations from which she may choose; her sphere of usefulness is 

 continually widening, but no woman should consider her education 

 finished until she has mastered the principles underlying home- 

 making. There is at present no work in which exists a greater 

 demand for teachers than in that of housework and cookery. 

 Not as heretofore to merely teach the wealthy how to cook their 

 fancy and costly dishes, and to prepare their many-course din- 

 ners, requiring hours for serving, but to teach the masses, the 

 poor, the families of moderate means, and the well to do, to se- 

 lect their food materials intelligently so that all the elements 

 required by the system are present in nearly the proper propor- 

 tion, and to cook and prepare them in the best possible manner. 

 Knowledge in cookery undoubtedly means improved health and 

 economy of money. 



But, says one, is not this housework and cooking a kind of 

 drudgery requiring no mental effort ! There is no work more 



