The Franklin County Home Demonstration Clubs are holding the most enthusiastic meetings held during the year. Each month something new is demonstrated or some new idea presented at the meetings. Many are combining educational features with recreation. Practically every club will have the afternoon meeting which will be followed by a camp supper. Song, games and story telling will be the features of the recreational side. This takes us back to the beginning of the work in the county when these suppers, dinners and other forms of recreation were part of the regular program.
We give below an open letter from Mrs. Jane S. McKimmon, State Home Demonstration Agent, to the women of North Carolina urging us all to go to the Farmers’ and Farm Women’s Convention August 1, 2, and 3. There are conventions of business men and conventions of professional men, conventions of religious and educational associations, and conventions of various labor and sales organizations, but the Farmers’ and Farm Women’s Convention at Raleigh August 1, 2, and 3 bids fair to be the BIGGEST of them all, and why not? Farming, although the least lucrative, is the BIGGEST and most important business of them all. Railroads will grant reduced rates. Meals will be furnished by the College at 50 cents each. Lodging is free. The slogan: “Times Rather Squally, Help Mend Them at Raleigh.”
My dear North Carolina Farm Women, I should like to see every one of you present at the Farers’ and farm Women’s Convention which is held in Raleigh August 1, 2, 3. Come with your husbands and brothers and make a rousing meeting of at least 1,000 women. We can do it if you will tell your neighbors of the good times to be had and the good things to be seen and heard.
The rooms at the State College of Agriculture and Engineering are free, and the meals are only 50 cents each. To be comfortable you should bring along sheets, towels, etc., and do not forget a mirror as the rooms are furnished for that sex which is not supposed to use one.
Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Charles Schutler, one of the best speakers of the west, herself a farm woman, will talk to us of what organization has meant to the farm women of her section and what it can mean to other women. In her speech before the National Home Bureau she carried the convention by storm as she did also at the County Life meeting in Atlanta last fall.
There are few who would not enjoy the other part of the Tuesday afternoon program: A demonstration and talk on what good lines and harmonious coloring sin dress can do for a woman. Live models will be used to demonstrate the good and bad points and the fat and thin woman can “see herself as others see her” while she is learning how to be well dressed on a modest income.
Wednesday morning everybody should be present when the Home Bureau through its delegates will tell how the rural women of North Carolina are organized and just what they find of interest to bring them out to the monthly or fortnightly meetings. What demonstrations and lectures on nutrition have done for the family health; what the rearrangement of the kitchen as a convenient workshop means in time saving; what they did in classes in the way of making dress forms; learning to alter patterns; planning, selecting and making a dress; and how they can beautify and make comfortable a home.
The garden, canning and jelly making, together with the family cow and the backyard flock come in not only in the report of what they do in nutrition, but for their income earning value also. It is the butter, eggs and canned goods money that enables many farm women to come to the Convention, improve their homes, and do the thousand and one other things they could not do without it.
Community sings will be held each night when men and women are gathered together in Pullen Hall for a social hour, and a very amusing play “The Lion and the Lady” will be given by the Raleigh Community Players on one night of the Convention.
The joint programs for men and women will include discussions on country life; the home; the church; and the school when some distinguished speakers will take part in the discussions.
From The Franklin Times, Louisburg, N.C., July 14, 1922
No comments:
Post a Comment