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Two French Women Studying Home Demonstration Agent Skills With Rosalind Redfearn, April 15, 1923

Two French Girls in Anson County. . . They Are Studying Home Demonstration Work for Instruction

By the Associated Press

Wadesboro, N.C., April 14—Two French girls—Mademoiselles Aydat and Lapierre—as official agents of the French government are in Anson county, where, with Miss Rosa they are studying home demonstration work preparatory to returning to France for instruction duties.

Mrs. Redfearn, a veteran of 10 years in the North Carolina service, has been taking the two girls to all points in the county where she has interesting programs of work underway. The girls will remain here two weeks and then go to Charlotte to study the work as conducted in Mecklenburg county. After two weeks there, they will spend several weeks in Tennessee.

The French girls came to this country largely through the influence of the American committee for devastated France. Among the states already visited are Iowa, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. After their visit to Tennessee, the girls will go to Washington, D.C., from where they will leave in May to return to their own country.

On their return to France Mademoiselles Aydat and Lapierre, under an agreement with the French government, will devote at least four years work to the teaching of domestic science and allied branches in accordance with American home demonstration methods.

In the beginning, each will have charge of a department, which is a subdivision of France corresponding in some respects to the states of the Union. Prospective demonstration workers, according to the plans of the French government, will go to these departments to study the American methods learned by the instructors, with a view of returning to their own departments and putting their knowledge into practice.

The two girls will become the first demonstration agents in France.

From page 9 of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, April 15, 1923

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