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and thereby to preserve her health and prolong her 



services. 



EDUCATION FOR SUPREMACY 



It is unquestionably a splendid aid to successful 

 womanhood for the growing girl to be taught how to 

 cook and sew and take care of a house. But as a 

 guarantee of peace and happiness throughout life 

 she had better be taught many specific lessons in 

 self-mastery. And it seems certain that the farm 

 home offers many more advantages for developing a 

 poised character in the young woman than does the 

 city home. So let it be seen to by country parents 

 that their girls be trained from childhood to meet 

 life's stress and storm with calm composure and sweet 

 serenity. Only such training will suffice to tide the 

 latter over the great crushing ordeals that tend at 

 some time to fall to the lot of every good woman. 



Conditions in the well-ordered country home may 

 be made to contribute to another form of self-mastery 

 in the growing girl. That is, she may be made su- 

 preme over the conventionalities of dress and the 

 social customs that touch her life. By this it is not 

 intended to prescribe in respect to such things as the 

 style or appearance of the young woman's clothing. 

 She may be first or last or medium in the list of the 

 well-dressed. But it is here contended that she can 

 be trained to subordinate these matters to a personal 

 charm that is her very own, and that emanates from a 

 beautiful and well-poised life within. It is quite as 



