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saving nearly one-half of the whole expense, and very great modifications of 

 these data will be needed to prevent a large economy from being realized. 



SOCIOLOGY. 



SOCIAL SCIENCE IN KANSAS CITY. 



The Social Science Club of Kansas and Western Missouri met in this city on 

 May 9th and loth. There were 109 members present, the various cities of this 

 vicinity being represented as follows : Leavenworth twenty-eight, Kansas City 

 twenty-five, Wyandotte nineteen, Topeka sixteen, Lawrence twelve, Atchison 

 nine. 



The reception committee consisted of Mrs. E. H, Allen, Mrs, Kersey 

 Coates, Mrs. P. D. Ridenour, Mrs. H. W. Baker, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. T. H. Ken- 

 nedy and Mrs. J. C. Horton. Mrs. Coates delivered an appropriate address of 

 welcome, which was responded to by Mrs. Geo. A. Banks of Lawrence. The 

 annual address was delivered by Mrs. C. H. Cushing, President of the club, after 

 which papers were read by Mrs. Elizabeth Mayo of Leavenworth on "Water as 

 a Cinder, a Solvent and a Healer," followed by a general discussion; Mrs. T. M. 

 Kennedy of Kansas City upon "The Ice Age;" a poem of greeting by Mrs. Dav- 

 id Patton of Atchison; "Living Issues in Social Science," by Miss E. P. New- 

 comb of Kansas City; " Education outside the School Room," by Mrs, Dr. W. 

 Jones of Sedalia, Mo. ; "Character a Growth," by Mrs. H. E. Monroe of Atchi- 

 son; " Culture for Women," by Mrs. S. M. Ford of this city; "Entertaining," 

 Miss Lula Dunn of Lawrence, " Physical Education of Women," Dr. F. M. W. 

 Jackson of Emporia; "Mendelssohn," Mrs. C. F. Runcie; "Divorce, Its Results 

 to Women;" Mrs. Ella H. Kingsley of Paola. All of these papers were of a high 

 order of style, ability and appropriateness, and should be published in permanent 

 form. We select as a fair sample of the whole the following paper by Mrs. Dr. 

 Wm. Jones, of Sedalia, upon 



" EDUCATION OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL ROOM : " 



It was Edmund Burke that said " Education is the cheap defense of nations," 

 and perhaps we cannot find any one who does not recognize the fact that educa- 

 tion in the broadest sense of the term, both in the common school and in the 

 higher realm of culture, is esscxitial to the maintenance of an advanced civiliza- 

 tion and requisite to the intellectual and moral progress of the race. No thought- 

 ful peirson can doubt the fact that the best arrangement of public affairs, the high- 

 est attainment of moral culture and the purest state of social life are dependent 

 upon the thoroughness and universatility of education. The beneficent Creator 

 has bestowed on man mental and moral faculties. He has graciously endowed 



