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way& to combine them. She ought to know the amount of food 

 that a child in school needs and she ought to know the proper 

 food to feed that child as well as the older members of her 

 family, or the infant in the family. And the same thing is true 

 here of knowing the conditions under which the food which she 

 buys on the market is prepared and the conditions under which 

 it is sold. She ought to know the value of money. She ought 

 to know how much to pay. She ought to know that cheaper 

 cuts of meat properly cooked are just as good as the more 

 expensive cuts of meat, that they are just as nutritious. She 

 ought to know how to prepare these cheaper types of food and 

 save in that respect. She ought to know that not only does the 

 house or the home show the character of the people who live in 

 it, but she ought also to know that that home, that house, is 

 going to modify very decidedly the characters of those people. 

 We are influenced by our environment. We cannot control it 

 entirely, no matter how hard we try. So she ought to know how 

 to plan a house most conveniently, to be the most helpful, to 

 be the most efficient. She ought to know the kinds of furniture 

 to buy that are beautiful and artistic and useful. And she cer- 

 tainly ought to know the conditions that exist in the neighbor- 

 hood that will afifect the sanitary conditions of her home, and 

 she ought to know how to keep it in a clean and healthful way. 

 Those are just some of the very fundamental things that she 

 ought to know. 



And then we need more efficient home management. We 

 need to know how to plan our house, how to keep house, how to 

 cook and how to sew, with all the incidental things that go along 

 with it. We need to know how to manage our homes. We have 

 the farm experts now who are telling the men and giving 

 instructions in farm management and the men are getting their 

 farming upon a scientific basis. It is time the women got their 

 housekeeping upon a scientific basis. Very, very few women 

 keep any household expense accounts at all. They use no busi- 

 ness methods. Now they need to keep accounts ; they need to 

 know definitely how much money they can aflford to spend for 

 clothing or for food, — how much they ought to spend, and then 

 they should live within their means. And they need to plan 

 their work and not go at it in any haphazard sort of way. We 

 need the scientific business principles applied in our keeping of 



