Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-11-24
HAPPENINGS
News Notes of General Interest
Frcm All Parts Of the State.
GREAT Day AT ROCK HILL.

GREAT Day AT ROCK HILL.
Interesting Add-esses-Dinner by
Fair Ladies, and a Whole Day OF
Gladness.
Rock Hill, Special.-Saturday was
an epoch making day for Winthrop
College, for Rock Hill and for York
county. On that day was held the
first Of a series of meetings of the
farmers, their wives, daughters and
the rural school teachers OF York
county for the consideration of the
great subjects Of agriculture in its
relation to our public school system
and to the home.
In his remarks DR.. Johnson said In
part: "Winthrop College stands for
service to the schools and to the
home. In line with this spirit there
was organized at this college in 1902
the South Carolina Rural School I'm
provement Association with one of
its graduates, Miss Maud Nance, at
its head. In accordance also with
this purpose of service, the call was
made to the farmers of York county,
their wives and daughter and to the
rural school teachers to meet here
and consider the great subject OF
agriculture and its bearing on the
home"
Following this address came a
paper by Miss Hyde, the superin-
tendent of Winthrop's model home.
Miss Hyde's subject was "Home
Making Versus Housekeeping" and
her treatment Of it was mastery.
She spoke of the home as the CEN
trail unit of the nation and brought
out very forcibly the difference be-
tween a house-a mere shelter, and
a home, an abiding place, q retreat,
of JOY and comfort. Miss Hyde spoke
Interestingly of the work of the
model home and invited all over to
inspect it and see the various demon
STATIONS of house work to be given
in the afternoon.
After this came a splendid paper
on "The Spraying of Plants by
Prof. L. A. Niven, head of the new
department of elementary agriculture
at Winthrop. Professor Niven gave
many helpful hints on the care OF
crops, fruit trees and plants, and
showed how the progressive farmer
made double or treble his yield. The
startling fact was brought out that
insects alone destroy every year in
the United States $200,0C0,000 in
crops.
"Hysicnc in the Home" was the
subject of the next paper by DR.. M.
F. Jones of the department of BIZ
ology. DR.. Jones showed that health
is the natural condition of man and
that good health depends upon three
things, viz: Ventilation, drinking
water and food. He also showed
how worry will cause Indigestion and
summed up with the telling sentence:
"There are four things the further
ance of which the government should
HIM OuS VI ITO alhS3 PiS'
death, preventable sickness, pre-
ventable physical ineliciency and pre-
ventable Ignorance"
Good and Our Meals" was the
subject of q most interesting paper by
Miss Whittemore of the domestic
science department: Miss White
more brought out clealy and con-
vincingly that many of u so-called.
"meals" are not food, and used APP
propriately the quotation "1Tell me
what you eat, and I will tell You what
you are"
After dinner the reassembled audi
ence was given a splendid address
by Mr.. F. w. Howe, of the Agri-
cultural Department at Washington.
Nj. Howe was invited down especial
ly to make this address and his
every remark was received with in
terest and pleasure. He brought out
that the study of agriculture in
the schools may give a dignity OF
meaning to geology, geography, the
languages and literature.