THE NEW EARTH 



hand to the finer lines of needlework and 

 embroidery, so that these may be hers if ever 

 she cares to follow them ; how to direct a 

 household in its deepest and broadest activi- 

 ties. She is mistress, too, not only of herself 

 but of her household. Her knowledge is pre- 

 eminently practical, hygienic, dietary, eco- 

 nomic ; she is fitted for the degree of Mistress of 

 Domestic Science, if such there were to confer. 



And along with all this has gone other 

 knowledge, so that she shall be broadened as 

 well as deepened. She, with her brother, may 

 go on, too, if she wills, into the more extended 

 university course; but whether or not she ever 

 takes the larger course, she is most admirably 

 fitted for the life she is to lead. She has been 

 shown also the importance of progress. She 

 is eager to know more and she will know 

 more, too, for with the broader training which 

 has made her systematic as well as symmetri- 

 cal, she will have more time to give to her 

 own cultivation when once she is back upon 

 the farm surrounded by precisely the same 

 implements of culture that her city cousin has, 

 pictures and music and books. 



So the life of the farm has been trans- 



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