AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION 



posite day's work in the agricultural school i 

 First of all, she learns about herself, the one 

 person of whom, had she been reared under 

 the shadow of the old life, she would have 

 been most densely ignorant. There are wise 

 teachers who know how ignorant she is, a 

 motherly matron who knows what she ought 

 to know, a physical director, a woman, also, 

 who puts plainly before her the functions, the 

 imperative needs, the possibilities and the 

 responsibihties of her life. So at the very 

 outset she is made mistress of her own person- 

 ality, — physical, mental, and moral. Then how 

 the knowledge of new things broadens before 

 her ! She studies the chemistry of foods ; she 

 learns how to prepare and cook foods so that 

 there shall be a maximum of service and a 

 minimum of waste; she learns the dairy by 

 heart ; she knows as much as the young man 

 by her side of the secrets of the grains, the 

 grasses, and the soils; she comes under the 

 sane control of a woman, who teaches her 

 how to make her own clothing and that of 

 her children when once she shall be so blessed, 

 how to do all manner of deft stitching and 

 mending and laundering; how to turn her 



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