hers,
That the house be clean.

4. Man now makes the laws for women,
Kindly, too, at that,
But they often seem as funny
As a man-made hat.

The grand event of this fairyland comes in the summer, when the boys and
girls from all of the schools go to the county seat for a summer camp,
where, between attending classes and lectures, playing games and
reveling in the joys of camp life, they come to have a very much broader
view of the world and a more intense interest in one another.

They are only one-room schools out there in Page County, but they have
adapted themselves to the needs of the community, focusing the attention
of parents and children alike on the bigger things in rural life, and
the ways in which a school may help a countryside to appreciate and
enjoy them. So the boys and girls of Page County have their fairyland,
and are devoted to the good fairy, who, in the shape of a generous,
kindly county superintendent, helps them to enjoy it.

VI The Task of the Country School

The teacher of a one-room school in Berks County was quizzing a class
about Columbus.

"Where was he born?" she queried.

"In Genoa."

"And where is Genoa, Ella?"

"On the Mediterranean Sea," replied Ella promptly.

"What was his business?" was her next question.

"He was a sailor," ventured a bright boy. "A sailor," chorused the
class.

"Why was he a sailor, Edith?" Edith shook her head.

"Yes, George."

"Why, because he lived on the sea."

"Of course. Now think a minute. Do many of the boys from this country
become sailors?"

"No'm," from the class.

"What do they become?"

"Farmers," cried the class, hissing the "f" and flattening the "a."

Certainly, the boys in a farming community, brought up on the farm,
naturally become farmers, yet in the interim, between babyhood and
farmer life, they go to school. How absurdly easy the task of the
school--to determine that they shall be intelligent, progressive,
enthusiastic, up-to-date farmers. The girls, too, marry farmers, keep
farmers' homes and raise farmers' sons. How simple is the duty of seeing
that they are prepared to do these things well!

The task of the city school is complex because of the vast number of
businesses, professions, industrial occupations and trades which
children enter. In comparison the country school has the plainest of
plain sailing. What are the ingredients of successful farmers and
farmers' wives? What proport