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work of th whole nation and with due regard for the common welfare to act as spokesmen , for rural interests in law'farming bodiesY Her largest contribution to home economics, I believe, has been her point of view—a re' spectful, critical appreciation of homemaking, its rewards, and difficulties, its demands and the >ources of help in training to meet these d c mands; in all, a comprehensive, sane evaluation of homemaking as a source of personal satis' faction and a means of serving society. This particular kind of ballast has stood the whole movement in good stead. To a movement heavily weighted with emotion, even sentimen' talism, she brought a balanced, discriminating mind, which was valuable to the profession itself as well as to her own department. This she did with marked succ 13, both in her own department and in the profession itsclt. A scholarly interpretation and appreciation of homemaking is something worthy o! the tiru intellect and the hij;h courage she brought t

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