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tory, tra^?el, poetry, and fiction. A musical in- 

 strument, a small library, and interesting games 

 will do more than admonition to keep young 

 people at home. Children naturally want a good 

 time ; if it is not provided for them at home 

 they will go to other and perhaps less desirable 

 places to get it. 



With the increase of appliances, and with the 

 added social and intellectual demands, country 

 as well as city life is becoming more compli- 

 cated and exacting. The housewife, whose physi- 

 cal strength is scarcely equal to the demands of 

 housekeeping and child-bearing, must develop 

 her intelligence and whet her judgment. She 

 must find easier and wiser ways of doing the 

 necessary drudgery, and make brains do an in- 

 creasing part of the labor formerly accomplished 

 by muscle. 



