196 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



but all lessened demand from adulteration falls upon the orig- 

 inal food producer, the farmer. 



Mr. Reed : I wish to state that in my vicinity we have se- 

 cured eighty- three names of men who have joined the National 

 Dairy Union and have put up their dollar. 



Mr. Willson: That is one of the milk shippers who has 

 come to believe that the milk shippers are in the same boat 

 with the dairymen in this matter of legislation. 



Song, ^^Five O'Clock in the Morning," Miss Gurler. 



(Applause and encore.) 



THE COUNTRY WOMAN AND HER CITY COUSIN— HOW 

 CAN THEY BE MUTUALLY HELPFUL? 



MRS. R. HOWARD KELLY, CHICAGO. 



As one settles down into the more assured tranquillity of 

 mature life there is one conviction which grows upon one, and 

 that is, that strong lines of distinction are not true in nature, 

 are not fair in ethics, are not normal in sociology. 



To the young girl wrapped up in the pleasures of the hour, 

 the days are either all bright, white joys, or dark, black sor- 

 rows; there is no medium. Her mother knows that there are 

 more gray days — days of mixed light and darkness— in life, 

 than there are either black or white, and her grandmother 

 knows that gray is a beautifully restful color. The young stu- 

 dent, and perhaps particularly the theological student, is very 

 sure that he is quite capable of picking out the sheep and the 

 goats in the humanity about him, even to his friends and rela- 

 tions, and in his estimation the fence of division between Chris- 

 tian and heathen is a very high and a very heavy and a very 

 hard one, while if he lives long enough and cultivates the prin- 

 ciples he professes, he is pretty sure to find out that a good 

 many of the sheep have goats' horns and a good many of the 

 goats have sheeps' wool, and that there are few Christians 

 who have not more or less redeeming heathenism in their 

 makeup, and vice versa. 



