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went beyond this course, preparing themselves for teachers, or for 
the professions; but no'w, things are changed; an education is de¬ 
manded by all classes, and that education should be of a kind to be 
useful in active life to the one who receives it. There should be a 
point in our schools where those fitting themselves for farmers or 
mechanics could switch off and go upon a different track from those 
preparing themselves for a more liberal education. 
It is the duty of the farmer to see that he gives his son a good 
education in the direction that I have described, without spending 
too much time upon studies which unfit him rather than prepare him 
for the active life before him as a farmer. Give him studies that, 
while they help him on in his callings, will, at the same time, make 
that calling a pleasure to him. It seems to me this can only be 
found for the farmer in the study of the natural sciences. 
One word upon the education of our daughters. I think the 
more the subject is agitated, the more we, both the fathers and the 
mothers, feel the importance of giving our daughters a pure, home 
training. I am old fashioned enough to believe that the sphere of 
woman is in the home circle, and that education which best fits her 
as icife and mother to make home what it should be, is the one for 
us to give her. If we have the means, and our daughter the taste, 
let us hold back from her no desirable accomplishment. But, 
meanwhile, bear in mind that all these things are but secondary to 
the one great point of fitting her to fill, with pride and satisfaction, 
the great station appointed of God for her, as the presiding spirit 
of the domestic circle. 
“ GIVE AND TAKE. ” 
BY HOWARD GLYNDON. 
Something for something—not something for nothing—is the 
great truth upon which the universe hinges, and has hinged since 
ever the morning stars sang together in grand concourse, praising 
God who had made them. He gave them being; they gave Him 
praise. And for the man who does not acknowledge this law it 
would have been better that he had never been born. 
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