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they are entitled to an open educational 

 chance with the men, which very commonly 

 they do not get. If the women could be 

 put in charge of the farm, the operations 

 would doubtless go quite as well as they 

 do now, but if the men were to be put in 

 charge of the house, the better part of them 

 would either lie down under the burden or 

 there would be so many changes and so 

 many new conveniences and fixings and 

 implements that the treasury would be bank- 

 rupted. I am not saying that all of the 

 fault is with the men, although a good share 

 of it belongs to some men. I once sat 

 behind two farmers' wives through an ad- 

 mirable cooking demonstration at a county 

 "domestic science" association. At the 

 conclusion one said to the other, "I suppose 

 this thing is all right for these city and uni- 

 versity women, but I can cook without any 

 of their help." Doubtless she could, and 



