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note the untidy homes and repulsive school houses so prevalent 

 in the land, and the slovenly men and careworn, ill-dressed 

 women, who so frequently inhabit these homes. 'Tis true that 

 " dress does not make the man," but 'tis equally true that dirty, 

 vile smelling garments seldom cover a clean, intellectual person. 

 Acquiring more land and stock, and making more milk, at the 

 cost of the comforts and ordinary refinements of life, is not 

 success, but dismal failure, even if it brings riches. Yet slovenly 

 drudgery rarely brings even financial success. As a rule, the 

 attractive house, and becomingly dressed, well bred personality 

 contributes largely to desirable financial results. Others are apt 

 to measure us by our own standards. And so many unsightly, 

 dilapidated school houses, desolate, unsanitary, with offensive, 

 disgusting out-houses the most prominent feature of the place, 

 abound throughout our country. Can these resorts develop the 

 instincts of clean, wholesome manhood, the charm of pure, refined 

 womanhood, we so hope our boys and girls to attain. 



Farmer husbands, I charge you be more tender and true to 

 the wife who, in the bloom and beauty of girlhood, gave her 

 young life into your keeping. Your manner is fashioning her 

 ways. Farmer wives, be loving and considerate toward your 

 husbands, by your stimulating example leading to nobler ideals 

 and acts. Fathers and mothers remember the sacred responsi- 

 bilities of parentage. Farm and stock and implements abide for 

 the day, but the immortal lives you are projecting into the limit- 

 less future fashion the republic and becomes a part of the endless 

 eternity. Sadly lacking in the noblest attributes of manhood is 

 the person who does not ardently desire to transmit the splendid 

 inheritance the past has given us, not only unimpaired but greatly 

 enlarged, to posterity. And who has equal opportunity with you 

 who live in the midst of nature's storehouses of exhaustless beauty 

 and wealth, ceaselessly beckoning you to broad and noble living, 

 opening your dim eyes, and calling your dull ears, inviting you to 

 explore her countless mysteries, and develop her lavish wealth. 



Luther Burbank listened, and saw, and evolved the Burbank 

 potato, which the Secretary of Agriculture has declared to have 



