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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
to your reaper, or ten pounds of fertilizer, 
or ten tons, or ten carloads, just write to 
Jacksonville and you will get it. 
Jacksonville is a city of tremendous 
commercial enterprise. We have not any 
rival to Jacksonville in the State, and we 
have not its equal in the South, unless 
we go as far North as Baltimore. How 
many of you know that Jacksonville is 
the leading city of the South in educa¬ 
tional work? The Jacksonville High 
School is doing something very few in 
the South are doing. They are teaching 
our young women just going out of girl¬ 
hood that most important of womanly 
duties—how to be good housekeepers. In 
other words, they are teaching the girls 
of today who are to be the women of 
tomorrow, the branch of education called 
domestic science. If any of our young 
ladies have time, the teacher of domestic 
science will be glad to have you visit 
them. We were there in a large crowd 
week before last, and the young girls were 
going along, attending to their work just 
as though nobody was there. That 
teacher is the ideal teacher. She had 
taught the girls to go about their business 
without the least trace of self-conscious¬ 
ness. I would advise you very strongly 
to visit the High School and take the les¬ 
sons home, and I am sure the mayor 
meant exactly what he said, that the city 
welcomes us here, not only as an associa¬ 
tion, but individually. 
I hope at some future day we will find 
in the High School, not only of Jackson¬ 
ville, but of every town in the State of 
Florida, not only a domestic science class 
for the girls, but an agricultural course 
for training our boys along agricultural 
and horticultural lines. Such a depart¬ 
ment ought to be in every one of our 
large High Schools. 
I want again to thank you, Mayor Jor¬ 
dan, for your kind expressions, and I am 
very sure that we will all learn, before 
the end of this meeting, that the words 
are sincere, and that you mean exactly 
what you say. 
