Show miscellaneous EDUCATION coeducation CO IN THE HOME cincinnati has a school of domestic sciences A paper of that city says the servant problem will be satisfactorily solved when every cincinnati girl ir school is taught cooking in the public school commenting upon this the decatur Adver advertiser fiser asks after the boys and suggests that education coeducation co is argued for the schools but ought as well to be carried into the homes the editor of the department devoted to wom comans womans ans interests mrs hildreth says rays the duties ol of the home should be taught to boys and girls alike there is no reason in the world why a boy of 14 should not be able to make a good cup of tea or coffee broil a bit of steak toast a slice of bread or stir up a bobi bowl of gruel just as carefully and daintily as a girl of the same age or in in case of sickness in the family why the boy should not know how to make up a bed comfortably sweep dust and air a room and otherwise make an invalid comfortable ELIOT ON MARRIAGE this is what president eliot said on marriage before the harvard young e mens christian association reent recently ly an element in a satisfactory career is a family li fethe great source of human ha happiness ness this family life is so something methin ag to P IV be looked forward to look forward in your physical and moral life to marriage and children and you will never prepare for anything better in this life T the he choice of a wife is the most important choice you will ever ma make ice do not make it hastily and do not marry for 4 anything but love ove the most idiotic thing of all is to marry for money of course I 1 do not mean to say that you cannot marry for love and money both married life improves proves as it goes on you may think your wedding day tho the 4 happiest of your life but it will not be for your happiness hap pines will increase until you become a patriarch SHE BELIEVES IN legislation miss frances B R willard writes to the american womans comans journal we have already legislation concerning the sort of garments that men and women respectively must wear if they would keep outside the rigors of the law surely if men proposed to the streets with w i h coat skirts trailing after them six or eight inches or a foot the law would deal with themas a monstrosity and nothing in the world but the newness of the idea would prevent its being recognized as reasonable to tell women that they shall wear skirts in the street that hat do not thereby become a part and parcel of all its parasitic de posits the law already declares how we must dress in in order to be presentable in public places let it go a step further and forbid women to mop the streets with trailing dress skirts or to deform their figures by compression of the floating ribs if ever there was a legitimate subject of legislation in the interest of public propriety public health and an improved humanity this is one |