“The Woman’s Touch or
What Club Work Means to N.C. Farm Women” by Jane S. McKimmon, State Home
Demonstration Agent and Assistant Director of Extension, N.C. State College, in
the May, 1938, issue of Carolina
Co-operator
The fact that Elizabeth City, where a tonsil clinic was
being held, was a hundred miles away did not stop Mrs. Andrew Austin, Home
Demonstration Leader of Hatteras, from taking a boatload of children, whose
parents felt they could not afford the trip, for examination.
With Mr. Austin as captain and Mrs. Austin as head nurse,
parents gladly consented and with cots, blankets, pillows, chairs, and food,
mothers and children and two extra people went to Elizabeth city. Tonsils were
examined, many removed, and the children benefited greatly from operations and
the care.
Rowan County
Farm people are reading in Rowan and are getting good books
through the five branch libraries which were established in the county
recently. Miss Edith Clark is county librarian and each home demonstration club
has appointed a librarian who goes to the county library and selects and takes
books to her home or the club house for distribution in county communities.
Rockingham County
For many years farmers and their wives in Rockingham County
have attended a two-day short course held in Wentworth which is designed to
give them information in agriculture and home economics subjects through
demonstration methods.
This year 500 men and women leaders came and carried what
they learned back to their neighbors.
Edgecombe County
A miracle was wrought in a three-room tenant house by the
Gaskill Andersons of Edgecombe County, who made over an unpretentious little
dwelling into a pretty, attractive home to shelter them in their first year of
married life.
At a house-warming the Andersons were hosts to the home
demonstration club at its March meeting and as every woman present knew the
“before and after” of that house the things they saw done inspired them to make
similar improvements in their own homes.
Washington County
Sometimes the small town comes into the rural planting
picture and Roper in Washington County plans to make itself the “gladioli town”
where each club member will plant bulbs and try to get at least one new member
to cooperate by planting.
Gaston County Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs has
adopted the mimosa as its tree, spirea for its shrub, and the holly-hock as its
flower.
Curb Markets
The Rutherford County farm women’s market send out gaily
colored invitations of their market picturing the vegetables customers might
find and giving a list of the other things to be sold each Saturday morning.
For several months the Wake marketers have been wearing new,
gaily-colored figured smocks as uniforms. Smocks were chosen because they are
not as easily wrinkled as white uniforms.
The women’s market in Washington, Beaufort County, have a
fresh coat of paint on their tables which display their wares, the work having
been done by an NYA girl.
Polk County
One hundred and eight Polk County women saw fine old pine
floors over 100 years old made to glow and reveal their beauty through the use
of a mixture of four quarts of boiled linseed oil, two quarts of turpentine,
and one pint of Japan dryer. Such appreciation of beauty preserves the fine
things in our old houses and uses them to preserve the distinct personality of
the old farm home.
Nash County
Mrs. N.S. Tharrington demonstrated how to make ‘hopping
John’ and bean loaf with tomato sauce at a recent meeting of the Benvenue
Community women in Nash County, which Dr. Jane S. McKimmon attended.
Wake County
Mrs. R.H. Norris and Mrs. J.B. Faucett carried jars of
canned meat to illustrate points brought out in a meat canning demonstration
given by a specialist in a recent meeting of the Oakwood home demonstration club of Wake County.
Keeping Up With Farm
Women
The best-looking woman is the well woman, and ill-advised
dieting will not make her beautiful or healthy.
Mrs. G.M. Hatley, Wilkes County, attended the poultry school
held in Wilkesboro and was very much impressed with the instructions given.
Congratulations to Miss Alice Sharpe, to whom a silver
loving cup was presented recently for her outstanding achievement in 4-H Club
work last year.
Nearly 300 rural women in Sampson, Gaston, Rutherford,
Alexander, and Durham counties are keeping accurate information on their
spending and have found that the food dollars can be stretched considerably by
careful buying practices.
Cresswell Club members in Washington County are making their
community “Rose Town” and hope to have a rose garden at every home.
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