STATE HOKTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Ill 



EVENING SESSION. 



Second Day, January 16th. 



The evening session was held in the room of the Delta Sigma 

 Society, at the University of Minnesota. 

 The first paper read was the following: 



OUTDOOB EECBEATION AND EMPLOYMENT 

 FOB WOMEN. 



By Mrs. Ida E. Tilson, of West Salem, Wis. 



The American people are fast livers. As children they are in a 

 hurry. The popular school teacher is ^he who promotes most rapidly. 

 Pupils cram with feverish eagerness for examinations, and talk less 

 of a well-rounded education than of passing into higher classes. 

 They enter society young, and grow prematurely old. The 

 climate is peculiarly stimulating. Thousands of fertile acres west 

 are given away for the asking. Excited emigrants thither load 

 trains and fill hotels. Every day there comes the shock and pain 

 of parting with friends. Omnipresent telegraphs and newspapers, 

 every day stir up people about all the murders and accidents in two 

 hemispheres. Advertising devices weary by their number and 

 pertinacity. A late Sunday-School Times truly said, "Our fathers 

 dwelt by a quiet pool, we have ever the roar of an ocean in our 

 ears." Even fashion has its fierce competitions. It is a saying 

 "as well be out of the world as out of fashion," certainly as well be 

 out of the United States. Parisians, though they invent the fashions 

 and coax away the dollars, themselves use far plainer furniture. 



