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that it would be impossible for her
to come, and Miss Miller, teacher in
chemistry in that department, had
kindly consented to supply, though
unused to the institute work, but at
the last moment Mrs. Calvin was
able to get away and so came. She
expressed her sentiments regarding
southern Oregon by saying that if
there was any part of Oregon she
liked better than the Rogue River
Valley it was Talent.
Ninety-five per cent of the ulti-
mate spending of the money of the
world was done by women, she as
serted, and yet they were not trained
in the work of home making. The
woman of 100 years ago went to
school three months in the year and
at the age of IA was a graduate in
the science of domestic economy as
it was applied to the problems of
that day. She could spin, she could
card, she could weave, she could
make soap, she could cook. Today
the girl at the close of her high
| school work knew practically moth
ing of home economics. Then, when
her high school course is completed
she studies music or art or stenog-
raphy, either for an accomplishment
or for a temporary employment.
Ninety-five per cent of the women
of the world are ultimately home
makers, yet only small per cent are
trained for it. Either the mother
was not able, or did not have time
or the girl did not have time. Mrs.
Calvin declared that it was much
more necessary that women should
know physiology and hygiene than
that doctors should. The average
human being was under the care of a
doctor two weeks in a year and al
most every human being was under
the care of a woman so weeks in a
year. A preacher had the human be-
| ings in the scope of his influence
three hours a week, the woman 365
days in the year and all hours every
day. She had, she said, found many
college graduates who came to her
for post graduate work who could
not tell merecerized from good linen
or wool from cotton. Women ought
to be taught to spend, not only that
they may get their moneys worth,
but to get the simple, healthful and
beautiful things, not the snowy bar
gains.
Many a man, declared Mrs. Cal
vim, has made failure of his days
work because his breakfast disagreed
with him. Home-making was not,
however, all cooking, all sanitation,
all buying right, but such a balance
of these things that her home-mak-
ing influence will reach beyond the
home. The home must carry home
atmosphere which will attract and
hold not only all the members of the
family but all who come in contact
with it. She should so conduct her
home-making, if possible, to have
leisure, not for luxury and idleness
but for all-around development and
outside work. There should not be
less education of woman along spec
ial lines but more along general
lines.
Mrs. Calvin severely criticised the
present standards which taught that
to do manual work was degrading.
Idleness was what was disgraceful.
There were a few women\who were
perhaps so beautiful that the world
could afford to support them as a
work of art, but most women and all
men owed the world an honest days
work for an honest days keep.
The majority of girls and young
women married and took up the
work of caring for home depending
on the home-making instinct which
is in most women to take the place
of training. What would be thought
of young man who should apply
for a position to run the Ray Gold
electrical plant because his father
had run a dynamo and he had an
instinct for running dynamo?
i Asked as to the age domestic sci
ence should be taught in the schools,
Mrs. Calvin expressed belief that
there should be no cooking taught