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Waterway. Our Ave thousand chill
idren in one State entered the contest.
The. address Our National Water.
ways" was givensby Hon. Joseph Rams.
dell, OF Louisiana. He Is president Of
the National Rivers and :Harbors Con-
gress, and a man Of great prominence.
We hear 50 much now OF the subject
of Conservation. 1t was listened to
by hundreds of:woinen. Under con.
iseryatlon OF Natural Resources IS
grouped all the workfin relation to the
material world; as mineral and animal
life. Under Conservation of Vital
Forces is grouped Sanitary work for
the preservation Of health OF our ma.
5terial bodies. In one address, subject,
Health Department Fund. most prac.
.ticed Ideas were given for the using
Of such a funde-such as town markets
being screened. Fits ard mosquitoes
fought. wall cards placed and iitera.
iture circulated. "a Health Day" in
the schools was also announced and
Health Items" 10 appear In the news.
papers. They spoke atSlength Of the
tented cities and the great work to be
accomplished in the determination OF
the Great White Plague The next
subject presented was Domestic Sci.
.ence. This Is the science ofliying and
the report OF the Household Economies
Committee was most ably given by
Mrs. o. N. GuIdlin, of Indiana. She sim.
ply took the house by storm; her re.
port was teeming with work and inter.
est and I regret that you all did not
:henr IT. 1t wins so full OF the effort OF
spreading the gospel OF better living.
1t Is a subject that has taken such a
hold upon the people that in her re.
port she said, ITO give complete re.
port she Would need to write unlyer.
sal encyclopedia on the many subjects
and have convention all Of her own
to tell It. q.
Illinois reports elghty.flve Federal.
ed Clubs interested in Home Econom.
les and almost every town or hamlet
has a Domestic Science club. They
have travelling libraries, and many
States cooperate with the agricultural
schools. Under this subject came,two
lectures. LIST, Domestic Science. Wo5
mans Noblest Calling" by Prof. Mary,
Rausch. State Agriculture College 0,
Colorado and Education OF Girls BY
Martha Van Ranselaer, Cornell Uni.
versity.
Next came; The Report of Food
Sanitation Committee" 1t was mos,
instructive, telling us among other
things, that within the last.two years.
fifteen States, had passed pure food
laws, and in this club women had done
their part. Best Of all the public lis
aroused. Under this head came ono
Of the finest, one OF the most practical
and one OF the most helpful Of all the
lectures we card at the biennial. II
was by Prof. Harvey w. Wiley, Blu
reau Of Chemistry, Washington-the.
man who aid all the pure food laws
passed. He spoke on Conservation
OF public Health Himself a splendid
specimen OF physical manhood TOLD
us SO many plain truths. He quito,
agreed in the conservation OF coal, tho
forest minerals. etc. and said. "but
after oil, these are only useful as the!
are conserved. How rarely do yor
hear anybody speak Of the conserva
tion of the greatest Of oil natural re
sources-"the health OF the commup.
lily" He dwelt on the conservation o!
public health which comes through
tho Improvement OF food, aud remind
ed US Of the saying Of the philosopher
who says, "that death is inevitable and
should be met with courage, but avoid
ed with caution He advocates the
science OF nutrition taught in the pub
lie schools. Children can understand
what is good to eat and how much to
eat. Children can understand With
the system OF philosophy which believe
in starving humanity. As example he
spoke of the Immigrants that are
starved for generations before they.
come here. After two generations II
this country their whole contour Is
changel-even the shape Of their head
SO that they all begin to simulate the
American type. Having established
how necessary Is the DrinciDal OF c