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Extension Service Welcomes Farm Women to Raleigh Convention, Aug. 14, 1921

Farm Women to Meet This Week. . . Convention Will Be Held in Raleigh

Raleigh, Aug. 13—The Farm Women’s convention meets here this week. The program will include among other things, at its separate sections, a talk and a demonstration on household furnishings, with special stress laid on proper color combinations in walls, ceiling, floors, hangings, upholstery, etc. Points will be given on the doing over of furniture, the use of simple and inexpensive material for hangings, and some thing about home dyeing, and about the question of the arrangement of furniture. The planning of a room to give that satisfactory feeling which comes from proper arrangement and color combination means balance and harmony. This talk and demonstration will be given Tuesday afternoon.

On Wednesday morning Miss Helen Louise Johnson will make a talk on suitable dress, giving the women an idea of how to select, how to make, and how to wear becoming clothes which shall be simple both in material and in construction, but satisfactory in results. Miss Johnson was at one time head of the home economics department at the University of Illinois, and has since served as assistant editor for Good Housekeeping, and on the editorial staff of Harper’s Bazaar.

Thursday morning will be given over to the meeting of the federation of home demonstration of home demonstration clubs for reports of work done during the year, and for the proposed work for the coming year. These clubs have organized themselves into a state home bureau, and the organization has given a big impetus to county work. Regularly appointed delegates from the different counties will bring the county’s report and the election of officers for ensuing year will take place. Mrs. Grace Bradford McDowell, president, will preside at this meeting.

At the joint sessions for men and women, Dr. Charles Killette, landscape designer of Richmond, Va., will discuss plans for beautifying the farm premises, the removal or screening of unsightly objects, making the best of good landscape features, and base plantings which shall connect the house with the ground. He will also tell something of the use of native trees, shrubs and plants and what can be done about the lawn.

At the joint session also Miss Johnson will give a talk on the co-operation of the family in making the home a comfortable place in which to live.

The address of the president of the Farm Women’s Convention, as well as that of the president of the Farmers’ Convention, will be delivered Tuesday morning.

On Wednesday night the division of home demonstration work will take charge of the entertainment to be given. The Raleigh community service has kindly consented to present a short play entitled, “The Mouse Trap,” or some other equally good play, and the song leaders division has agreed to conduct community singing for that night.

It is hoped that every rural woman who can make her arrangements to come to the convention will do so. The college will room free of charge any woman who can attend. Meals will cost 50 cents apiece, which will make the trip very inexpensive. Those attending should not forget to bring bed linen, towels, and a blanket.

From The Charlotte News, Aug. 14, 1921

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