Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . N iiiunity laundries. He also believed that somethingcould be accomplished by lightening the style ofhousekeeping in eliminating some of the frills andfussiness. There are ten good housekeepers toone good home-maker, he said. It is not only theheathen in his blindness that bows down to woodand stone. There are a great many women whoallow the house to tyrannize over themselves and theirfamilies. It was most important that the womenof the farms, through the introduction of labor-saving equipment and better planned houses, be re-lieved of as much as pos
Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . N iiiunity laundries. He also believed that somethingcould be accomplished by lightening the style ofhousekeeping in eliminating some of the frills andfussiness. There are ten good housekeepers toone good home-maker, he said. It is not only theheathen in his blindness that bows down to woodand stone. There are a great many women whoallow the house to tyrannize over themselves and theirfamilies. It was most important that the womenof the farms, through the introduction of labor-saving equipment and better planned houses, be re-lieved of as much as possible of the purely mechanicalwork of the house, that they might have more timeto be companions to their families, and to work to-gether for the common good of the community inits business enterprises, its education, its recreationand its worship. More Intimate Child Welfare—Dr. MacMurchy A S chief of the Dominion Department of Child Wel-^* fare, Dr. Helen MacMurchy came to the Instituteswith a more vital message than ever. A request was. ?1 4_ The Duchess of Devonshire, photographed with a group of Institute Directors sent in at the close of the convention that the com-plete address be published for distribution to thethirty-nine thousand Institute members in the pro-vince. If it is published it should have a permanentplace in every home library. In the meantime wehave a brief review here. Dr. MacMurchy dealt particularly with what theInstitutes could do in the way of public health andchild welfare work. First make a survey of yourown district, she said, being careful to get yourinformation without hurting anyones feelings. Feelresponsible for every woman and every home inthe radius of your Institute, and for every child. Toserve your own children, she quoted, you wotddstrip yourselves, but the real test of your tnotheringis what you would do for other peoples mothers, you -who will be mothers, and you whohave inissed ynotherhood, give them, a chance. One of the
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