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to many classes where, once upon a time, it 

 would have seemed indelicate for her to ap- 

 pear, but where, in all womanly sweetness, she 

 learns what she ought to know, but she has 

 her own individual classes which he would 

 hardly care to join because they deal with mat- 

 ters which belong primarily to the home. And 

 greatest of all the influences which are flowing 

 out of this dual education, is that which makes 

 the home life upon the farm attractive. When 

 the farm home is attractive, the corner grocery 

 or the saloon will not be. When around the 

 farm-house there are thrown all the refining 

 influences of music and pictures and books 

 and magazines ; when the cuisine is as care- 

 fully planned and the dining-room as carefully 

 superintended as the stable or the dairy ; when 

 the food is sensibly prepared and served in an 

 attractive manner, and, at the same time, at 

 a marked saving in expense; when drudgery 

 is transformed into dignified labor which may 

 be hard, but which is never menial, then the 

 farm home is as full of attractiveness as the 

 most exquisitely appointed palace in the heart 

 of the town, ah, indeed, perhaps more so. 

 Go with this country girl through a com- 



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