SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 207 



the excellence of their products, but we have done little to im- 

 prove them. 



RURAL EDUCATION 



Do not understand me that I would limit the education of 

 rural families to material affairs — to the getting of "bread and 

 butter,' ' as some thoughtless men in prominent places term 

 agricultural education. Man's responsibility to God and to his 

 fellow-man is now being impressed upon young and old, in 

 country and village and town, by the grandest organization of 

 churches and Sabbath schools known to any people, where man's 

 nobler nature is being stimulated and developed with infinite 

 pains and at such expense as we are never likely to see devoted 

 to material things. Highly enlightened society, as we have it, 

 requires liberal incomes. Good farming is the basis of bank 

 accounts in our country. Fill the pupil's stomach before you 

 teach altruism, and see that the teacher has had beefsteak for 

 breakfast. One of the most praiseworthy lines of work being 

 done at our agricultural colleges is the training of young women 

 in what pertains to themselves and others, including domestic 

 economy, sanitation, nutrition, ventilation, and correct living, 

 resulting in the American girl, unique, unequaled, perfect. 



