Miss
Augusta Raymond
Two out of 14,000 agricultural and home economics club girls
in North Carolina will get free trips to Washington in June as guests of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture. This newspaper told about one of them, Miss
Lela Paul, of Pungo, a few weeks ago. The other one is Miss Augusta Raymond of
Hertford County, whose picture appears in this newspaper this week.
Take a good look at Augusta. She is only 17 years old, is
well developed for her age, has a hearty appetite, is full of pep, full of
delightful and wholesome deviltry, and is always ready for a good time. But
when a year’s study of the 14,000 club girls on the farms of North Carolina was
completed by State and Federal agents, Augusta Raymond was one of the two girls
choses for outstanding leadership.
Augusta Raymond is a born leader and a tireless worker. When
asked to take any part of any community activity she never holds back or says
that she ‘can’t.’ She responds to any call with a vim, alacrity, and
intelligence that easily gives her leadership. Everybody steps aside for
Augusta when Augusta is on the job, because they know that Augusts will get the
job done. At the same time Augusta can always command all the assistance she
needs in any community enterprise because people generally are glad to help those
who help themselves and, then too, people naturally follow a cheerful leader.
In conducting club meetings, making public demonstrations or
speaking in public, young Miss Raymond is easily at home and can hold an
audience against time. At a district meeting of club girls in Washington she
gave a public demonstration showing all the required steps in preparing an
invalid’s tray. Incidentally she showed her audience how to fix up a dose of
castor oil so as to make it palatable, concluding the demonstration by taking
the dose herself, licking the spoon and smacking her lips hen the dose went
down.
In food preservation, home decoration, cookery, dress making
and other domestic activities she is without a peer in her county, making a
personal record for which thousands of other club girls on the farms of North
Carolina are happily striving.
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