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 The sixth commandment is: 



"THOU SHALT NOT CLEAN AND DUST ALL THE TIME." 



So many women are cleaning and dusting all the time that their house 

 is never clean. It dbesnt pay to do that. You can have a very comfortab'e 

 and lovable home which is much nicer to live in than an immaculate home 

 where there is never any dust. If it is a choice of doing the dusting and 

 cleaning or going on a trip with your husband and children, why, do the 

 latter, by all means. 



The seventh commandment is: 



"THOU SHALT LOVE THY HUSBAND AND CHILDREN MORE THAN THY 

 HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS." 



A great many women idolize chairs, davenports, doilies and what not, 

 to such an extent that the woman and husband do not enjoy the home as 

 they should. Just remember that the furniture is a material and can be 

 replaced, the husband and children cannot. Let us have more parties, 

 more candy pulls, more fun in the home. Let the social life be in the home 

 rather than in doubtful, questionable places. 



The eighth commandment is this, and applies to the women: 



"THOU SHALT HAVE THY OWN CHECK BOOK." 



It is the women who are clapping now. Every woman should have 

 either her own allowance, her own checking account or a mutual checking 

 system, because she has earned the money in that home the same as the man 

 who has labored in the fields, or the doctor or the lawyer. Therefore she 

 should have access fco this mutual money that has been earned in the home. 

 We should train our girls in business ability so that when they are married 

 they will be able to manage this check book and will not be like the woman 

 who was very indignant when she received a notice from the bank that she 

 had overdrawn. She went to the bank very haughty, threw down her check 

 book and said, "This is a mistake because you can see how many checks I 

 still have in this book." [Laughter.] 



The ninth commandment reads: 



"THOU SHALT HAVE A HOBBY." 



Everyone should have something they are interested in outside of the 

 daily routine. It may be canning, that is a lovely hobby; it may be clr'cken 

 raising, it may be bee keeping, it may be golfing, it may be many things. 

 Something that you like to do and it takes you, as I say, out of the daily 

 routine. A woman can run a home, and run it efficiently, and still have 

 time for a hobby. A woman can do many things, as we proved to you dur- 

 ing the war. Some of the directors of this institute have to be educated 

 along that line. I was in the town of one of your directors and I was going 

 to talk on the subject "Woman's Sphere", and this is the way he introduced 

 me: "Mrs. Gray will now talk on 'Woman's Sphere, or the Kitchen.' " 

 [Laughter.] I got up and I said that I was surpri?ed that he would make 

 such a remark, because he* had such an intelligent wife. But he is educated 

 now and I am sure he will never make that mistake a?ain, because a woman 

 can run the home and have this hobby besides. She can be like the man 

 who was a poet and went farming much against the advice of his friends. 

 They said, "You can't run a farm, you are only a poet. You will be a fail- 

 ure as a farmer." The first Christmas he pent his friends some lovely pork 

 and also some beautiful lines of poetry. This is what he said: "Accept 

 these products from my pens. I can wield two kinds of pens, a pig pen and 

 a literary pen." So we women can do more than one thing. We can man- 

 age a home and ride a hobby at the same time. 



