The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-21
SYMPATHY NEEDED
FOR FARM WOMEN
Says Mrs. Burns, Organizer
international Congress
of Farm Women.
{National News Association)


NEW YORK, Sept. 21-The first
international congress of farm women
will be held at Colorado Springs, Colo,
next month. It's organizer is Mrs.
John T. Burns of Colorado Springs
Mrs. Burns, who has been in the east
making arrangements for the con-
gress, talked of the movement the 9TH
er day in this city.
you asked me what seems the
greatest need of the farm women"
said Mrs. Burns; what they need
most in their lives. Sympathy, l
should say. and touch of the human
hand, the sight of any other woman &C.
casionally, and a time in which to OBJ
tain mental and spiritual refreshment,
perhaps, and most of all the inspira-
ton of higher ideals.
do you know, while clubs and
oranges and various associations have
done much to raise the standard of
life ON the farm there are scores of
women who are nothing more than hui
man machineces, plodding through
their daily rounds of duties without
mental stimulus of any kind? The
asylums for the insane have surpris-
ingly large number of women from
the plains.
I'VE expect to have four day ses-
sions. The first day we will talk
about the equipment of the home,
beauty within and without, which, of
course. will take up the idea of dec
grafton withinfi the necessity of good
beds, ventilated rooms, artistic look
ing tables and furniture and also the
necessity of small lawns, shade trees
and identifying adjuncts as we'll as
the danger of having sheds and chick
en- houses close to the house, uncover
ed wells and all of these things which
make the ordinary farmyard look like
a junk heap.
There will also be a talk on food
values. The afternoon will be devoted
to demonstrations in cooking by the
domestic science department OF our
agricultural colleges. On the second
day we will take up the physical side
of the question; the necessity for
knowledge of the physical laws of life
in relation to the family, the neces-
sity of systematic labor in the house
hold duties in order that time may
be found for rest and for mental and
spiritual uplift; the labor saving de-
vices for the home and in the after
noon there will be short talks on en-
Urgency nursing, simple hygiene, what
to do in case of accident and how to
prevent the spread of diseases.
I'll
the economic value of the women and
children on the farm, dwelling upon
the danger of the women and children
becoming too much an economic val
ue and calling the attention of the
farmer to the fact that sometimes the
development of his hogs is placed be-
fore the training and development of
his children. who have become neces-
sary adjuncts to the daily routine. We
will discuss dairying and poultry,
which are distinctly in the woman s
province, and also the cooperation of
the oranges and the clubs of the farm
women.
I'm the afternoon we expect to take
up matters relating to the care and
loou VI ZIG youuS CnlIuIcu. 1Ou
would be surprised If you knew of the
thousands Of little ones that are sacri.
feed every year through ignorance, es.
pecially in the rural districts where
the doctor is far away and where the
mothers do not know how to feed
their babies. Then we will take up
the country church and country school
and the matter of recreation, mental
and physical, for the young people in
our rural communities"