ii8 HOUSEHOLD BACTERIOLOGY 
The young girl in the Tennessee mountains may be 
able to give of her experience to the college profes¬ 
sor, while in between and among all grades a common 
bond of interest has been welded because of our com¬ 
mon studies. 
Nor does the enrolled student alone gain knowledge 
from this company of common workers. The in¬ 
structors are not barred out from this feast of good 
things. Through the tests, returned from all quarters 
and by so many persons of varied attainments, stand¬ 
ards of living and rich experiences, the instructors are 
helped to a broader outlook and if, originally they 
were able to write facts which might serve as guide- 
posts in daily living, by this time the index finger 
should assuredly be pointed toward many other helpful 
paths. 
Some one has said that a guide-post is that which 
tells others to go the way in which you will not walk. 
This we will not accept, but wherever any guiding 
finger seems to invite, let us take that path so far at 
least as it serves our purpose and conditions. 
Here are some of the directions in which the stu¬ 
dents of Bacteriology have walked and others may 
follow. The following report from Utah may inspire 
another to do likewise: 
“I have tried to put my newly acquired knowledge 
into practice around the home. For example, I am 
being more careful of our food products to keep them 
from dust. I have used a dampened cloth in dusting 
