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are inspired, namely, through the father and mother. Let us hope that 

 this Congress, made for us, by us, may continue to improve conditions 

 among farm women. How many ^arm homes do we find that are sad 

 and gloomy? There is no caste on the farm. The homes are better for 

 each little effort. There is just as much demand for the lovely and 

 beautiful in the country as in the city. We are striking out hospitality 

 in the rush for dollars and cents. We can only live so much, and it 

 is up to us to live it the best we can. God created the beautiful in us, 

 but we let the grind of life blot it out. The broadest education is that 

 which makes you think most of your life, your friends and your community. 

 The less nagging we do, the bigger we are. So often the mother is separate 

 and apart. She does the work but she cannot converse with her daughters' 

 and sons' guests. We want to alter such conditions, until each woman is 

 the biggest woman she can be. We need the libraries and magazines in 

 the farm homes, and we are getting them. Civilization has come as soon 

 as the woman has brought refinement into the home. Then our women 

 will have learned the value of saving time and woman instead of time 

 and money. 



Miss Harkness, Professor of the Department of Home Science, Boze- 

 man, spoke on the "Woman Who Spends." She said we hear much about 

 the high cost of living but little about the remedy. ' The trouble is the 

 principles of economics have not been studied in relation to everyday 

 life. In Montana we are finding out the cost of living in different homes 

 under different circumstances. Women do the greater amount of buying 

 and the whole of home life centres about the spending of the money. 

 We must work for pure food laws and satisfy ourselves that the workers 

 on our clothing, etc., are under sanitary conditions and are paid aright. 



On Tuesday everting the new Auditorium was the scene of a brilliant 

 social function on the occasion of a reception which was tendered the 

 delegates and notable visitors to the Dry Farming Congress. A pretty 

 feature of the evening was the presence of the "Queen of the Congress," 

 in the person of Miss Edna Hatch, daughter of the Mayor, and a train 

 of the prettiest young girls in Lethbridge. Miss Hatch was the selection 

 of a majority of the citizens in a contest preceding the Congress. 



The walls of the Auditorium were hung with the flags of many 

 nations, while the stage was beautifully banked with ferns. 



Her Gracious Majesty, Queen of the Congress, was gowned with white 

 satin with a crimson robe and court train edged with ermine, a jewelled 

 tiara and a sceptre of wheat stems. The Ladies in Waiting and the two 

 small pages fulfilled their duties well. 



The Lieut^Governors of Alberta and of Saskatchewan, with their 

 wives, and the Provincial Members and Officers of the Congress were 

 the hosts and hostesses, and receiving with them, in a long line, were the 

 following delegates: 



Ambassador Ali Kuli Kahn, of Persia; Senor Bradies and Senor 

 Eschor, of Mexico; Messrs. Kol and Rosen, of Russia; M. Hsieh, of 'China; 

 Mr. Coleman, of India; Hon. Neil Neilson, of Australia; Baron Lochneysen, 



