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Shall a Woman's Soul Be Starved in Rural Homes
A discussion tracing the burden of the housewife with cook, laundress, maid, nurse, and teacher, citing Cornell's Uncle John Spencer and the Rural Domestic Economy department as a model. The Cornell Reading Course for Farmers' Wives offers free bulletins and discussion papers to 25,000 readers in New York, benefiting rural and even urban women beyond state lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Spencer
State Agricultural College
Cornell University
Ithaca
N. Y
Spencer
New York
John
Junior Naturalists
Cornell College of Agriculture
L. H. Bailey
School of Agriculture
Cornell