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Show I 1 THE HOME. H Edited by Miss Hazel Love, A. C. U. H RECEIPES. VEGETABLES. B Corn. H 1 qt. cut corn, 1 teaspoon salt, z H cup' milk, 2 tablespoons butter. B Husk the corn and remove the silk H (a stiff whisk broom is useful for B this). With a sharp knife cut down H the center of each row of kernels, B and scrape or grate the corn from B the cob. Cook the com for twenty B minutes; add the milk, salt, and but- B tcr. Serve as soon as heated through. H Corn on Cob. H Husk the com and remove the silk. H Cook from twenty to forty minutes H in boiling salted water. The corn H' baked in the inner shuck for thirty H minutes is sometimes served. H Stuffed Egg Plant H 4 egg plants, icup tomato sauce, H 4 tablespoons butter, 2 eggs, H. J4 teaspoon pepper, 1 cup crumbs. H 2 teaspoons salt, H Wash the egg plant, and cook in H boiling water for fifteen "minutes. H When cold, cut in half, and throw H away the seed. With a spoon re- H move the pulp, taking care not to break the skin. Melt the butter ;n H the frying pan, add the crumbs, piilp H and tomato. Cook five minutes, and H put in the salt and pepper. Remove from the fire and stir in the beaten H eggs. Fill the shells and bake in a hot even twenty minutes, I Stewed Egg Plant. I Cook like spuash. The addition of I tomato raucc to the pulp unqroves I the 'flavor. o ' THE COLLEGE WOMEN AS HOME-MAKERS. Read at the Commencement Exer-t Exer-t cises of the Agricultural College by Lizzie O. Mackay. "Give us the grand term "woman once again, And let's haVe done with "lady" one's ,a term , Fqljf onefoi&c, strong, beautiful -and firm, Fit for the noblest use of tongue or . Pen; And one's a word for lackeys. One suggests The mother, wife, and sister I One the dame Whose costly robe, mayhap, gives her the name." In duscussing the subject the College Col-lege Woman as Home-Maker let us view it from three points; the tendencies tenden-cies of today, the reasons for the same, and present possibilities. In olden days our grand-mothers use to devote their entire time to the business of housekeeping, but as years roll by conditions change and instead of finding the mother giving her undivided un-divided attention to home and children she is inclined to go to the opposite extreme, and the new woman is found at the clubs, parties, politics, or the office, while hired help takes care of the house and children. True, it is that to make a successful home-maker at the present time the wife must have outside social and intellectual development develop-ment but it is the duty of every girl to study how best to meet successfully successful-ly the demands madc upon her by her home and those ma'dc upon her by the outside world.. Statistics go to prove that the majority ma-jority of college women of today arc inclined to shirk the responsibilities' of the home, or else have a false ideal as their guide. It is said that up to the year 1890 out of 24 classes graduated gradu-ated at Vassar, a little more than 36 per cent were reported as married. So often we hear this remark from a girl graduate "Do you think I would shut myself up in a little house and content myself with housekeeping, when such bright prospects arc before me to ben-fit ben-fit the world and make a name for myself as an author, artist, scientist or business women? Housekeeping Is such a waste of time, and such drudgery, drudg-ery, no development in it whatever." A person with such a conception of home-making is far better outside of the home, but if a college does anything any-thing for a girl it should prepare her foV ideal womanhood, notideajstudent G. Stanley Hall says: "I insist that the cardinal defect in the woman's college col-lege is that it is based upon the assumption as-sumption implied and often expressed if not almost universally acknowledged, acknowl-edged, that girls should primarily be trained to independence and self-support, and that matrimony and motherhood, mother-hood, if it come, will take care of itself, it-self, or as some even urge, is thus best provided for. We must first of all distinctly dis-tinctly and ostensivcly invert the present maxim, and educate primarily primari-ly and chiefly for motherhood, assuming as-suming that if that docs not come single life can best take care of itself it-self because it is less intricate and lower and its needs far more easily met." , Whoever asked if the holy mother, whom the wise men adored, knew the astronomy of the Chaldcns or had studied Egyptian or Babylonian, or even whether she knew how to read or write her own tongue, and who has ever thought of caring? Wc cannot conceive that she bemoaned any limitations limi-tations of her sex, but she has been an object of adoration all thes'e centuries cen-turies because she glorified womanhood. woman-hood. The Madonna ideal shows us how much more whole and holy it is to be woman than to be artist, orator, professor or expert, and suggests to men that to be man is larger than to foe gentlemen, philosopher, general, r 'resident or millionaire. c "But with all this love and hunger in my heart," continues G. Stanley Hall, "I cannot help sharing in the growing fear that modern woman, at least in more ways and places than one, is in danger of declining from her orbit; that she is coming to lack just confidence and pride in her sex as such, and is just now in danger of lapsing to mannish ways, methods, and ideals, until her cardinal divinity may become obscured. But if our worship at her shrine is with a love and adoration a little qualified and unsteady un-steady we have a fixed and abiding faith without which we should have no resource against pessimism, for the future fu-ture of our race, that she will ere long evolve a sphere of life and even education which fits her needs as well as, if not better, tthan those of man fit him.'" , who docs not pursue the natural and u common vocation of woman may en- 1 I joy an intellectual development. J Many such exceptional women can '$ follow with satisfaction the ordinary ; professions for men, sweep shop, car- J ry on business, labor for churches, ', schools and charitable societies, and jj take active part in the various social H movements which arc furthered by pub I lie discussion and active stimulation of public opinion, but these exception- J al women will, as a rule, contribute far less to the real progress and devet- ! opment of mankind than the normal j woman whose intellectual opportuni- , tics they arc apt to undcr-tate. True it is "that many who enter up- I on the duties of wife and mother, do not get the development out of it pos- ' siblc, but there is no excuse for a wo- ' man who has had the advantages of ' college not to get from her daily la- . bors development far superior to her sister who chooses a professional life. I President Eliot of Harvard in dis- cussing the "Normal American Wo- "r man," writes1: "Going to housekeeping housekeep-ing undtr new conditions is also a valuable piece of mental training. The . young woman has new. duties, or new application of arts which she learned from her mother. Her husband brings home many subjects for thought and speculaiion which arc new to her. He probably has a different trade or occupation occu-pation from her father, with different invitations, obstacles and prospects. With the coming of children the moth-r moth-r not only 'experiences new joys and new things to learn anfl new difficulties, difficul-ties, to contend with. Tenderness sympathy and love are indispensable in the care of babies and the bringing ( up -of young children; but there is a large opportunity also for careful thought and practical wisdom, in a'd-dition a'd-dition to those natural sentiments, particularly if the family lives in sparcely settled -ountry, or is not rich enough to command the prompt services of all sorts of specialists and helpers. The process of training several children chil-dren to helpfulness, mutual forbear. j ance and productive co-operation Is one which requires much mcntil capacity in the trainer, who is usually the mother. In imparting this training the -mother herself practices keen ob. scrvation and comparative study of' her different children. The mother ! with four, five or six, has better op portunities of developing her own intellectual in-tellectual life, than the mother with one child or two children; because in a large family there arc always greater great-er difference of disposition and capacity ca-pacity among the children and they react re-act on their mother and on each other . in more ways, and more interesting ways. The ideal mother sees to the proper directing and stimulating or the cn tire family to the intelligent use of books and other readings. The even, ing is the most valuable time for the discharging of this educational function func-tion which lasts them all their lives and is transmitted to their descendants.. descend-ants.. That which we do which is of most worth to the world gives us the most satisfaction. What is more beautiful than to sccmothcr surrounded by her children all listening to a story, each thought of which is uplifting, anJ again what is more pleasing and sai- isfying to a mother than to watch her children grow. The strength of the nation is dc pendent upon the strength of the home, and as President Roosevelt remarks: re-marks: ' When all is said it is the mother, and the mother only who is a better citizen even than the soldier who fights for his country. The successful suc-cessful mother, the mother who docs her part in rearing and training aright the boys and girls who arc to be men and women of the next generation, is of greater use to the community and occupies, if she only would realize it, a more honorable, as well as a more important position than any successful success-ful man in it." Or in the words of Tennyson: "Woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink Together, dwarf'd' or god-like, bonJ or free, For she that out of Lethe scales with man The shining steps of nature, shares with man His nights, his days, moves with hinl to one goal. Stays all the fair young planet in her hands If she be small .slight naturcd, miserable, mis-erable, How shall men grow? Or what higher tribute could he paida woman than the Prince paid to his mother when he said: "Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants, No angel, but a dearer being, all dept In angel instincts, breathing Para-disc, Para-disc, Interpreter between the Gods of men. Who looked all native to her place, and yet On tip-toe scem'd to touch upon a sphere Too gross to trcadjjand all male minds perforce Sway'd to her from their orbits as they moved, And girdled her with music Happy he with such a mother.."" |