72 CHAPTERS IN RURAL PROGRESS 



in the country districts is just beginning, and 

 promises large growth. Wider service in the 

 church, a community federation or union of 

 different churches, the work of young people's 

 societies and of the Sunday schools all these 

 afford abundant opportunity for the man or the 

 woman qualified and willing. 



There are other lines of usefulness. Although 

 I have stated that on the farm the opportunities 

 for personal culture are great, it must be con 

 fessed that these opportunities are not fully 

 utilized by the average farmer's family. Here 

 then is a very wide field, especially for the 

 farmer's wife. For if she is a cultivated college 

 woman, she can through the woman's club, the 

 Grange, the school, the nature-study club, the 

 traveling library, and in scores of ways exercise 

 an influence for good on the community that 

 may have far greater results than would come 

 from her efforts if expended in the average city. 

 The farm home too has latent capacities that are 

 yet to be developed. It ought to be the ideal 

 home and, in many cases, it is. But there are 

 not enough of such ideal homes in the country. 

 No college woman with a desire to do her full 

 service in the world ought for an instant to de 

 spise the chance for service as it exists on the farm. 



