Ten for moving picture shows, lectures and the like, and he expected
that most of the descriptions
of foreign lands, industrial operations, wild animals--in
short, everything that people should learn about by seeing, rather
than
reading--would be taught the children by moving pictures accompanied
by lectures. He hoped to open to the boys and girls the wonders of
the universe which are touched by the work on the farm. He hoped to
make good and contented farmers of them,
able to get the most out of the soil, to sell what they produced
to the best advantage, and at the same time to keep up the fertility
of the soil itself. And he hoped to teach the girls in such a way
that they would be good and contented farmers' wives. He even had in
mind as a part of the schoolhouse the Woodruff District would one day
build, an apartment in which the mothers of the neighborhood would
leave their babies when they went to town, so that the
girls could learn the care of infants. "An' I say," interposed Con
Bonner,
"that we can rest our case right here. If that
ain't the limit, I don't know what is!" "Well," said Jennie, "do you
desire to rest
your case right here?" Mr. Bonner made no reply to this,
and Jennie turned to Jim. "Now, Mr. Irwin," said she, "while you have
