Garment-Maker
Willine Moss is one of the outstanding 4-H
Club girls of Stanly County. She won third place in the State Contest on her
clothing outfit and several of the dresses she had made were exhibited in the
4-H Club booth at the Stanly County Fair.
In the past year Willine has made 142
garments for herself, her family, and for a neighbor’s children.
Whining
Discussions on child welfare, especially
habit formation, have been interesting Richmond County home demonstration club
mothers, said Mrs. Anna Lee Harris, home agent.
“One mother told me ‘I want to thank you
for the great help you have given me in stopping my boy from whining.’”
“Why, when was that?” asked Mrs. Harris.
“Don’t you remember the discussions we had
at the club meeting about the whining habit in children? Well, I tried out some
of the remedies on my boy which different women suggested and they worked.”
Examples
Sometimes home demonstration club meetings
are held in a project leader’s home and what she has done to make her home more
efficient is used to demonstrate what other housewives may do.
In Moore County Mrs. Alexander of the Union
Club stood back with pride as club members examined her rearranged kitchen with
its newly built-in cabinets and sink. She explained that she paid for material
and work with money she had made by selling poultry.
Mrs. Matthews of the Thaggard Club, also in
Moore County, showed what she had done with a dark unpainted room having only
one window, a pump at the sink, a stove in the middle of the room, and very few
conveniences. The results she exhibited were a new range well-placed for
convenience, built-in cabinets, a sink with hot and cold water, and windows cut
on all sides to let in the light. There was a well-chosen covering on the floor
and Mrs. Matthews had worked out a cheerful color scheme. No wonder she thinks
her workshop the prettiest room in the house.
Such concrete demonstrations always inspire
other women to overcome difficulties and bring a little beauty and comfort in
their homes.
What
They Learn
Neulah White, a 4-H Club girl of Chowan
County, who has been in club work five years, says among the many good things
she has learned in club work are:
1.
Good table manners and how to set a table
correctly and make it inviting.
2.
How to plan and prepare good appetizing meals
and what were the daily food essentials.
3.
How to grow vegetables. She says, “My sister,
Artelissa, and I had a garden and served on the table butterbeans, tomatoes,
cabbage, cucumbers, and pumpkins in season. We sold $27 worth and canned some
for winter use. We had a flower garden also with 15 different varieties. During
my fifth year our club took up ‘Farming for a Living’ and ‘Food in Relation to
Health.’”
4.
Sewing and something about making my own
clothes. And what was most interesting, good grooming.
Miss Pauline Gordon, home
management specialist for the Home Demonstration Division, begins her work in
North Carolina January first. Miss Gordon succeeds Miss Helen N. Estabrook and
is planning to conduct home management leaders’ schools with Miss Mamie
Whisnant, assistant specialist in home management, in certain county of the
State in 1936.
Canning Schools
In November and December
demonstrations were given in the southeastern and central sections of the
State. The current schedule follows: January 13, Taylorsville; January `14,
Lenoir: January 16, Boone; January 17, Newland; January 20, Elkin; January 21,
Yadkinville. The schedule for the remainder of the season will be published
later.
Good Slogan
The Surry and Stokes home
demonstration clubs have as a slogan in 1936 “A garden for every farm home
planned to meet the family food requirements for the whole year.”
Forty-one home demonstration club
women of Lee County, most of them young housekeepers, have agreed to keep the
family business accounts for 1936. This is a fine cooperative project for any
family.
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