lights," which are as illuminating as the statistics:

"Women realize that no amount of scientific arrangement or
labor-saving appliances will of themselves make a home. It
is the woman's personal presence, influence, and care that
make the home. Housekeeping is a business as practical as
farming and with no romance in it; home making is a sacred
trust. A woman wants time salvaged from housekeeping to
create the right home atmosphere for her children and to so
enrich their home surroundings that they may gain their
ideals of beauty and their tastes for books and music not
from the shop windows, the movies, the billboards, or the
jazz band, but from the home environment.

"The farm woman knows that there is no one who can take her
place as teacher and companion of her children during their
early impressionable years and she craves more time for
their care. She feels the need of making the farm home an
inviting place for the young people of the family and their
friends and of promoting the recreational and educational
advantages of the neighborhood in order to cope with the
various forms of city allurements. She realizes that modern
conditions call for an even deeper realization and closer
contact between mother and child. The familiar term, 'God
could not be everywhere so He made mothers' has its modern
scientific application, as no amount of education and care
given to children in school or elsewhere outside the home
can take the place of mothering in the home. 'The home
exists for the child, hence the child's development should
have first consideration.'

"Farm women want to broaden their outlook and keep with the
advancement of their children 'not by courses of study but
by bringing progressive ideas, methods, and facilities into
the every day work and recreation of the home environment.'"

"True enough," you say, "but these are problems of the individual home.
What have they to do with the community?" Just this: The status of the
farm woman is a matter determined more by custom than by individual
achievement. It is difficult for any one woman, no matter how able or
strong-minded, to maintain a status much in advance of that of her
neighbors; but let the women of a community get together and discuss
their problems and ideals and t