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or position in society. Every one is liable to be placed in cir' 

 cumstances where this knoAvledge is essential, not only to the 

 health but to the peace and happiness of others. Who has not 

 seen the family, fitted by nature and position for a happy house- 

 hold, where confusion worse confounded reigned, and whose 

 dispositions were as som^ as the bread placed before their 

 guests ? Who shall say how many a man has become irritable 

 in temper, depressed in spirits, a recluse in society, experiencing 

 all the long train of the horrors of the dyspeptic, simply from a 

 failure in this department of science. It is a matter of pride 

 with us that Avoman is alloAved her proper rank and place in so- 

 ciety, but with all her charms of refinement and intellectual 

 culture she has not a finished education Arithout the practical 

 knoAAdedge of Avhicli aa'c treat. Without this she might be a 

 first rate he^yeat but a very poor help-meet for any man. Bet- 

 ter far for him that he should go out to grass as did Nebuchad- 

 nezzar "till his hairs Avere groAAni like eagles feathers, and his 

 nails like birds claws,'' Let no young man dream oi future hap- 

 piness until he has tested at least one loaf Avrought by the fair 

 hand he seeks. When the millennial day arriv^es that good bread 

 shall be the rule and not the exception, then shall the bread of 

 peace and contentment together with the milk of human kind- 

 ness grace and bless each happy household. 



Respectfully Submitted, 



C. U. FIELD, Chairman, 



