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all the possibilities innate in each of them to become actualities. How is this 

 art to be acquired? By similar means to those adopted in the acquirement of 

 skill in any other occupation by training and practice. 



The world has taken a long time to awaken to the facts that the care 

 of human lives in the home calls for preparation, and that the character of 

 that care must vary as conditions change within and without the family circle. 

 With all respect for the housewifery practised by our great-grandmothers, 

 much of it calls for revision in the light of modern knowledge, in order that 

 it may mtH>t modern requirements and utilize modern conveniences. 



The right management of a house has been assumed to come to all 

 married women by instinct; and. though infinitely more knowledge is neces- 

 sary for this purpose than for the successful care of poultry or cattle, far 

 more study and thought is habitually given to the feeding of stock than to 

 the feeding of young children ; at what cost of health, happiness, and human 

 lives statistics bear record. 



THE NEED AND TIME FOR TRAINING. 



But the key-note of the twentieth century is iti-ogres*. The errors of the 

 past are to be used as stepping-stones for present improvement. Civilized 

 man has learnt that every effect must have a cause; consequently xinsatis- 

 factory effects must now be traced to their causes, and these causes promptly 

 removed. 



THE LAW OF CAUSE AND EFFECT. 



Some effects have obvious causes. If the kettle boils over, a child soon 

 learns that, the cause is found in the overfilling of the kettle; or, if the fire 

 goes out. it is because no one has fed it with wood. Unfortunately all the 

 causes for effects we deeply deplore are not so easily found ; in most cases 

 we are only on their track : such as. for instance, the cause why some meat 

 and fish cause severe illness to those who eat them, yet show no outward 

 signs of being unwholesome. Other causes are known to the few, but ought, 

 to be known to the many : such as the fact that the milk of a tuberculous 

 cow may infect the infant or child consumer, while the adult escapes. 



WHERE TO SECURE TRAINING FOR HOME-MAKING. 



These and many kindred facts ought to be common knowledge to all 

 parents: consequently, in every progressive country each girl attends classes 

 in housewifery during a part of her school or college life. In the United 

 Statt-s. in one or two European countries, and at a few schools in England, 

 boys also study hygiene (or the right conduct of human life), in order that, 

 through mutual interest, both man and woman may co-operate in the neces- 

 sary efforts to render the family and community life of each nation sounder 

 and purer. 



A further result of this training may be described as 



THE FREEDOM OF EFFICIENCY. 



In a motto for kitchen walls recently issued by Mr. Charles Barnard 

 (The Housekeeping Experiment Station. Darien, Conn.. U.S.A.) words occur 

 which illustrate my point. "Cleanliness, order, and know-how." it runs; 

 "these three, but the greatest of these is kn(nr-hnr." It is by "knowing 



