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One Hundred Eight
The value of this idea of civic centers every-
where, and the use of the schoolhouse for all
of the people all of the time in an educational
way, is beyond human computation.
There is a tendency on the part of parents to
leave education to the hired teachers. Very
few parents have any knowledge of what is
being done at the schoolhouse. Few, indeed,
there are, who visit school once a year. And
for many, education ceases when the school-
days are over.
Socrates said, “ I would set the young people
to work, and send the old people to college,
because poetry and philosophy should be the
solace of those who have lived long.”
If college education is a good thing, then all
of the people should have it.
This is the Wisconsin Idea. And the methods
being used to bring this about are of a very
practical, tangible, commonsense sort. The
plan works.
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Good luck is science not yet classified, just as
the supernatural is the natural not yet under-
stood so so
so-
Women Farmers
VAST number of business-
men are buying farms. The
automobile makes it easy to
get out of town. The country
invites. Beside that, there is
a belief that an investment
in real estate is a wise one .9.
l The number of women in
America who own farms and
successfully manage them is
p ‘-5 on the increase. Women have
-. - . - always raised the “ garden
' sass” and poultry. She suc.
ceeded with these when often the men failed
with the big things. And now she is taking a
hand all along the line.
Many of the men who are buying farms put
the property in their wives’ names. Woman
is the natural farmer. The word “ wife ”
means weaver. Woman furnishes the home,
She cooks, prepares and serves the food. He;
business is to minister.
This, of course, is more or less poetical among
the newly rich, who never do anything that
they can hire any one else to do.
But the third generation, if it exists at all,
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seems to realize that work is a privilege, not
a curse. So we find the most democratic
among our people are often recruits from the
so-called “ Four Hundred.”
In England the most democratic people are
those with titles. At the stock shows you will
find lords, dukes, earls, wearing corduroys,
flannel shirts, slouch hats, intent on living the
simple life.
In Texas there are upwards of a hundred
women who own ranches of ten thousand
acres and more each. These women ride horses
like men. They help at the round-ups, they
market their cattle, they improve the breeds,
they are familiar with the catt1eman’s vocab-
ulary so so
They have their own bank-accounts and hire
their helpers.
In a similar way, all over America, women
are managing farms and carrying the WW1‘
to a degree of success which their husbands
and brothers very often do not reach.
It is easy to say that woman's place is the
home. Woman’s sphere is anything that Sh?
can do, and do well; just as a man’s work IS
the thing that he can do best. The mother-
heart easily extends itself to the care of pets
etheir poultry, their horses, hogs and cattle-
To raise grain to feed these animals is 63$’
and natural. “Civilization began with the
domestication of animals,” says Alfred Russel
Wallace.
Also, it might be said that women farmers Put
the kibosh on the ether-cone so far as they
themselves are concerned. Women who Care for
animals and live close to the soil keeP W91“
so
G ENIUS is only the power of making F0”
tinuous efforts. The line between failure
and success is so fine that we scarce1Y kmw
when we pass it: so fine that we are often 0“
the line and do not know it. How many a ma“
has thrown up his hands at a time Whe“ a
little more effort, a little more patience, W0“1
have achieved success. As the tide 8055 clear
out, so it comes clear in. In business, S0m5'
times, prospects may seem darkest when “any
they are on the turn. A little more Persistence’
a little more effort, and what seemed hopeleis
failure may turn to glorious success. The“ ‘S
no failure except in no longer tryiI1g- This
is no defeat except from within. "0 ‘ea 3;
insurmountable barrier save our own inhale“
weakness of purpose.