Home Demonstration Clubs Help City Women Adjust to Country Life, 1935

“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.