The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-10-24
Club Women Told to Pay Less
Attention to Baking.
URGED TOlMPROYE WORLD
Mrs. Sarah P. Decker Tells Club Women
Of Englewood, Ill, That Bakers
Cookies Are Good Enough
for Boys.

OLA Fashioned mince pes and The
cookies like mother used 10 make
are doomed to extinction II tie advice
offered BY Mrs. Sarah Plat Decker,
president Of the National Federation
of Womaps Clubs, Is followed by the
club women Of Englewood. Ill. says
the Chicago Tribune
Hereafter the small boy will be re
called on bakers cookies. Crulicrs &
day old from the grocery store viii
take the place Of the hot, soft dough-
nuts fished from the sizzling lard on
baking day The spicy aroma from
the kitchen will no longer make him
long for the toothsome delieacles Of
the oven. Mother will be away, @liyr
ing the larger life"
rs it worth while asked Mrs
Decker, TO wear cur lives OUT baking
cookies for these little nlouthsg Give
the boys bakers cookies They never
viii know the difference we are
capable Of being much more than
mothers. Isn't Il much better for us
to have wholesome refreshmemt OFT
side our homes2 There IS something
more vital in life for lis than bending
over rolling PIN all day to dll little
Johnny up with sugared cookies
Bakers cookies are good enough for
him.
The talk was given before 600 women
at the new Masonic temple II Engle
wood Music and reception supple
mented The programme.
Speaking of woman's duties IN life
Mrs. Decker said they should look on
the home as men do. They should not
devote their hearts aud minds 10 the
petty details Of the Preside House
hold affairs were not the only interests
in life. There was something better
than making embroidery which should
soon be relegated to the garnet
.The women who have worked for
centers Of intellectual culture, who
have worked to establish juvenile
courts and advocated purity ia poll
ties, she said, do they ever bother
about custard pies? Haven't they
something more Of consequence to do
than gossip about their neighbors2 Do
they ever bore sou by talking about
Johnny and the time he had the inea-
sles9 DO they tell you how long they
kept him in. the dark room what the
doctor said and how his case compared
with James attack?
"Do they ever annoy you with a
chronological account Of the last selY-
ant girls mlsdefneanorsg No. Tie wo
mans clubs are an autIdote for such
Il narrow selfish outlook.
Tie mission u women. the speaker
declared, was g bring light into the
world They mast no longer De the
vine which twines around the ragged
oak Women today, she said. should
be the peers III sensible wise men,.
Children Mrs Decker compared to
plants saying tie less mother brood.
ed over them the sooner they w0ald
blossom out You Go noi Groom over &
plant she said, and keep It indoors
out 81 the IglIt You set 1t III tle Win
dow and let It blossom III the sun.
Children are Ike plants You should
do the same with them
a better condition OF matrimony was
to be brought about by womals clubs.
AS an example the speaker compared
the condition Of the spinster twenty
I'VE Years ago with that Of THE splen.
did army Of single women today
I'm the old days it was anything for
change, she said "The life ot the
old maid was 50 uninteresting that she