The gospel that no work is drudgery that is done with enthusiasm and that household in the farm home can be the most pleasant of all work for women was the theme of Miss Emily Hoag, the rural life section of the office of farm management, of Washington, in a brief address Saturday afternoon before the County Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs.
Miss Hoag, who formerly was teacher at the Asheville Normal College, now travels over the United States observing life in the farm homes, with particular reference to the condition of women, and offers suggestions derived from the data collected at the rural life section in the Washington bureau for improving rural life. She arrived in Charlotte Thursday afternoon and made several trips to homes in the county with Miss Marion Davis, home demonstration agent of the county. They visited the homes of Mrs. Hattie Bradford, Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Pharr, Mrs. Robert E. McDowell and Mrs. R.M. Person.
Miss Hoag pictured the ideal conditions that could be effected with little expense in the average farm home and offered suggestions for improved comfort and pleasures there. Far from being lacking in the variety that is the spice of life and monotonous because of the absence of conditions prevailing in the city home, Miss Hoag said the modern improvements in labor-saving devices, with quick mail service, telephones, and other means of culture, social intercourse had brought about a condition where farm life was to be the nearly ideal life of the future. She was reared on a farm in central New York state.
The address was replete with optimism and suggestions about improving and beautifying the rural home and making it an attractive place for all the family as well as keeping it as the bulwark of the nation’s moral and social life. Her trip through the South is one of observation and instruction. The meeting Saturday was the first the federation has had since the annual election of officers a month ago. Mrs. Rufus M. Pearson, the new president, presided. Mrs. John M. Walker is secretary.
In addition to the address of Miss Hoag and a talk by Miss Josephine Wylie, household editor of “the Country Gentleman,” who was also here for the day, reports were heard from members of different clubs constituting the federation. The attendance was excellent.
From The Charlotte News, May 15, 1921
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