The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-06
LECTURE ON
DOMESTIC SCIENCE
MISS IRMA MATTHEWS OF THE
STATE A. & M. COLLEGE DE-
LIGHTS LARGE AUDIENCE.

Through the kindness of Reverend
Winton of the Broadway Methodist
church, the ladies of the auxiliary
were able to secure a good audience
Saturday night to hear Miss lrma Mat
thews deliver a lecture on domestic
science. 1t had been arranged tc
have the lectures take place at the
Carnegie library, but as Miss Mat
thews was late in arriving in the city
other arrangements were hurriedly
made.
Miss Matthews spoke in part as
follows:
The Womans Auxiliary is one OF
the rapidly growing organizations OF
the state, and of the nation as we'll
and it's entrance into Carter county
we hope will carry with it much that
is helpful in the home life of our
people.
The membership of the organization
in this state has nearly reached the
thousand mark, but Canada has her
ten thousand. The purpose, however
and the nature of the work are the
same.
In each county where the auxili
ary exists it is in connection with the
Farmers Institute, and is proving q
decided assistance in procuring in
teresting meetings of the institute.
The organization has its own bylaws
and constitution, also, its yearbook
containing the monthly programs that
are to be carried on throughout the
state. Annually the organization
elect from their membership one lady
whose expenses to the short course
given for the auxiliares at the dis
trict agricultural schools. Here the
class of women, one from each coun.
ty, receive an entire weeks intruc.
ton in domestic science. From this
number of delegates is elected one
who is to be sent as a representative
of that district to the annual short
course given each year at the agri
cultural and mechanical college al
saltwater. Here an additional weeks
work is given in the domestic sci
ence department.
By this system of representation
one lady from each county attends
at least one of the short courses and
in this manner is enabled to help the
ladies who did not attend the short
courses. In many instances the del
egates are able to go home and dem
onstrate to thirty or more of their
friends the things that they had learn
ej at the short course
From time to time the ladies re-
quest assistance from the state secre
tary and a teacher of domestic sci
ence is sent free of any cost to the
county and the demonstrations are
free to all and all are invited. The
auxiliaries frequently borrow" inter.
esting members from some other aux.
iliary' and in this manner a common
interest and acquaintance is formed.
The woman's auxiliary in Carter
county was organized a year ago and
it was for the purpose of strengthen
ing this work that Miss Matthews
came at this time. Although a com.
bination of adverse telephones caus
ed disappointment in the first pub
lie demonstration of her work. Miss
Matthews met a number of the mem
bers of the auxiliary and citizens oi
the county and much enthusiasm in
the auxiliary work has been aroused
by her visit to Ardmore. The press
of call for her work is so insistent
that she could not promise a date to
come again for some time hence but
she left with the assurance that she
would come again as soon as the work
would hermit