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and go forth and assume again our rightful place, our full responsibility 

 among the nations of the world. At any rate there is only one thing that 

 you and I can do, and that is to do our utmost trying to create a public 

 opinion in favor of such a policy. Before God, before the world, before 

 posterity, can we do less? 

 Vocal Duet Doris and Dorothy Sites 



PRESIDENT MANN: It gives me pleasure to again present to you Dr. 

 Wilson who has been president the past year of the Department of House- 

 hold Science and who was reelected president this afternoon. 



Dr. WILSON: We are going to share with you two of our speakers 

 whom we know you want to hear. They only have a short time apiece, 

 but they have a message. I can only tell you one thing that I think will 

 be worth while, because I do not want to take their time, but you will 

 agree with me that any woman who can get a telephone message at nine 

 o'clock, take a train for two. hundred miles and ride seven miles by horse 

 and buggy and then say "I'm here, what do you want me to do" is someone 

 who has that pep and push which goes with efficiency. 



I take great pleasure in presenting to you Mrs. Grace Viall Gray who 

 is going to talk on "The Home Maker's Ten Commandments." 



THE HOME-MAKER'S TEN COMMANDMENTS. 

 (Mrs. Grace Viall Gray.) 



LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: That is a wonderful introduction, isn't it? 

 But really Dr. Wilson isn't that nice to me personally. She is nice to me 

 in public, but when she tried to entice me to talk tonight I said, "How long 



may I talk?" She said, "As long as you 

 wish." Then later she sent a committee in 

 the afternoon and said, "You had better talk 

 only twenty-five minutes." Later in the after- 

 noon another committee waited upon me and 

 said, "You had only better talk twenty 

 minutes." Tonignt as I came in the door Dr. 

 Wilson met me and said, "You know, I think 

 you better Just talk fifteen minutes." That 

 is the way she treats me in private. [Laugh- 

 ter.] 



We speakers are treated in very peculiar 

 ways. Recently at a meeting, Just as the 

 gentleman speaker and I were leaving, the 

 chairman of the meeting said, "We have many 

 things to be grateful for. We are very grate- 

 ful to these afternoon speakers who have to 

 leave before the evening meeting." [Laugh- 

 ter.] Those are the kind of things that we 

 speakers get and still we have to smile and 

 pretend we like it. 



Now for the first commandment that I have 

 laid down for the home maker in Illinois is 

 this: 



Mrs. Grace Viall Oray 



"THOU SHALT KEEP THT HEALTH." 



No woman can enjoy her home and her 

 children if she does not enjoy good health. 



She may have an automobile, she may have a beautiful home, she may 

 have lovely children, she may have a good social position in the community, 

 but if she does not have her health then she cannot enjoy those things 

 and she is poor indeed. So that is the first commandment and the first 

 thing that every woman in Illinois should see to, that she has good health. 

 If she hasn't it at present, get it and keep it, I am sure 'our wonderful 

 president will agree with me on that. 



