“Around the State” in
Carolina Co-Operator, March, 1935
issue
“You can take the boy out of the country but you can’t take
the country out of the boy,” they used to say out at State College when they
sent some freshman for six yards of “skirmish line.”
Now officials of the same college are, to paraphrase the
above, “taking the women out of the city and the city out of the women.” For
helping former city women adapt themselves to county life is one of the new
functions of home demonstration clubs, according to Miss Ruth Current, district
home agent.
As an example of how well they are “taking the city out of
the women,” Miss Current points to Mrs. A.C. Robinson, Rowan County farm woman
who formerly lived in Charlotte and Spencer, and who “didn’t even know how to
milk a cow” when she and her husband moved to the farm a few years ago.
She joined the home demonstration club, learned rapidly, and
today her canning activities, year-around garden, sewing and record-keeping
come near to making her a model farm woman.
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