Address on the Education of Women in England and Germany

              I have been very much interested in 
what Mrs. Welch has told me about 
her class in
 Domestic Economy as well 
as in what I have heard from 
you today. For it seems to me that

the great fault in the education of our 
American girls is a want of practical 
knowledge of housekeeping. I go about 
a great deal in America & visit 
in many homes
 & I find that 
all our ladies enjoy & 
wish to have a well furnished table, 
a pretty
 tasteful home & a neat 
well organized household, but they 
have many difficulties 

to encounter in order to accomplish 
these results & in most 
cases it arises from
 the fact that they do not understand the 
practical part of housekeeping. 
No one 
can instruct others to do what 
one does not thoroughly understand