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Home-making Today Should Have A Background Of Scientific Training Because Only In This Way Can Real Efficiency Be Achieved. The Average Girl Wants To Be Able To Keep Her House With The Least Possible Strain, And In Order To Do This She Must Have Good Training. This Can Best Be Achieved By Taking A Good Course In Home Economics.

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Home-making Today Should Have A Background Of Scientific Training Because Only In This Way Can Real Efficiency Be Achieved. The Average Girl Wants To Be Able To Keep Her House With The Least Possible Strain, And In Order To Do This She Must Have Good Training. This Can Best Be Achieved By Taking A Good Course In Home Economics.

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Get Out Of The Way As Quickly As You're Not Needed.

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I Do Not Want Church Groups Controlling The Schools Of Our Country. They Must Remain Free.

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We Will Have To Want Peace, Want It Enough To Pay For It, Before It Becomes An Accepted Rule.

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