dgment" which the
scientific investigator knows to be necessary.

There is no concern of human life that cannot be made interesting, and
the magazine writers of today understand that art. Read the newspaper
and the world is yours. It is all things to all men. The popularizing
of knowledge is now proceeding on somewhat better lines.
Intermediaries between the laboratory and the people are springing up
to interpret the one to the other. This work is good or bad according
to the individual writer. Most of it is still too superficial. Here is
one of the most fertile fields for the educated woman, since the
evils of which we complain have to do so intimately with woman's
province, the home and the school. There is hope that the trained,
scientific woman will take her place as interpreter. Her practical
sense will give her an advantage over the young man who has never
known other home than a boarding house.

But the expert knows that the man of "practical affairs" wants and
needs certain knowledge, and so seeks another way. Our Federal
government, through the departments of Agriculture and Education; the
State Boards of Health; the educational institutions, have with care
and accuracy formulated this knowledge and are sending to the people,
in the form of bulletins meeting their interest and requirements,
knowledge in concise and readable form, and so most valuable. More
than five hundred thousand copies of Miss Maria Parloa's bulletin on
Preserving have been distributed by the Department of Agriculture.

These efforts by both men and women have meant independent scientific
research, which is often the only available knowledge for the
housekeeper. It is bringing to them in their "business" of life the
same help that the men on the farm and elsewhere are receiving in
theirs.

But the written word, however clearly put, can never reach the
untrained as can the voice and personality of an earnest speaker with
a compelling vitality. Lectures by those who have been engaged in
research themselves, so that they have absorbed the spirit of the
laboratory--not by those who have merely smelled the odors of the
waste jars--are ten times more valuable than even the most
attractively illustrated articles. It is well that the personality of
the human being is an asset, and that there is a stimulus in hearing
and seeing the person who has accomplished things. There is always a
power in the spoken word. The government, with its public le