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Show Teach Girls to Cook. President Sylvester of the Maryland Agricultural college asks that Maryland Mary-land girls be given the same chance as Maryland buys to acquire education. This seems to be trite and commonplace common-place and sure enough it is, In respect to general educational training, for Maryland hoys and girls have equal opportunities op-portunities In the public schools. It is In special education, however, that the boys have superior advantages, says the Baltimore American. The girls have no technical school in which they can prepare themselves for special work In the future. Capt. Silvester urges that the girls he given equal chances, that while the hoys are trained as in the Maryland Agricultural college to be farmers, girls should be trained In domestic science. sci-ence. The suggestion which Capt. Silvester Sil-vester has thrown out Is important. It offers an opportunity. If availed of, for Maryland girls to have a school of their own where they will be able to learn how to sew and cook. Indeed, the question is a very interesting inter-esting one. Which is the better prepared pre-pared for life's duties, the young man or the young woman, when us man and wife or separately they begin their struggle for a place in the world? In these modern days when women are so actively entering Into competition with men as breadwinners and when they are claiming equal political opportunities opportuni-ties it becomes a pressing question of the hour. What shall wn do without cooks? Men can do without a great many things, but how can we dispense with cooks? Capt. Silvester offers ft solution of our needs. He tells us tr train our girls to be good cooks as he trains the boys at the agricultural college to be good farmers. |