Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1913-03-01
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CLUB NOTES
Club Women and the Home.

Club Women and the Home.
That the women of the Federated
Clubs do not forget the home, nor
their very clooe relation thereto, is
shown by the immense popularity OF
the Household Economics sessions at
the biennial conventions of the Gen
eral Federation of Women's Clubs,
They are invariably crowded to the
doors, standing room being at pre-
MUM
The new head of this department,
Miss Helen Louise Johnson, of Wa
tertown. n Y. has long been familiar
with this subject, having attended Mrs
Rorer's School in Philadelphia in the
early nneties At the Worlds Col
umbian Exposition in 1893 she had
charge Of the first electrical cooking
exhibit ever given in this country, and
soon after lecturing and teaching. 1t
may be interesting to know how Miss
! Johnson came to take up the position
on the editorial staff of Harper's Ba-
Ear. Some of those in authority on
| that publication one day heard her
telling about some of the problems
presented to her by those attending
her lectures These were problems
particularly difficult because of the
constantly increasing cost of living
and the women appealed to Miss John
son very much as patients would to a
physician eager for help. The Harper
! Bazaar people were interested and ask
! ed her to take up the work she Is now
doing on that paper.
The stories therein set forth are not
fictitious and in her handling OF them
Miss Johnson is certainly solving
many of the financial difficulties caused
by lack on the part of women OF early
/ training in the great profession OF
/ home making.
The plans OF the Household Econo-
mics Department for the next two
years are two-fold First to urge the
! study of textiles, and of the present
/ tariff regulations on wool. in the hope
| of furthering a more equitable SEIZED
/ ule and a pure textile bill This wor|
/ has been especially bequeathed to the
/ department from the preceding admin
1 istration. and is of great and far-reach
! ing importance The attention of club
women has been steadily directed for
/ 4 number OF wears to the study OF
/ foods and sanitation, and this is still
/ necessary But the subject of textiles
/ especially in It's economic bearings, /
! also OF great moment and has hither
/ to been sighted The second object
/ OF the department is the establishment
/ of the cultural value of home econo
Z mics Too long. Miss Johnson thinks
/ has the subject been regarded as re
/ lating to cooking and sewing only
/ She saws. Home economies in thew
/ economic and social forms should
! he taught i'm every girls school and
! COLLEGE in the land Household admin
! i~tration is the privilege of the women
/ talking about her duty and point out
/ 1t seems to me quite time to cease
4 the privileges of her position as wife
/ and mother and household admisitra
\ game and he PLAYS II to win. There
/ tor The man regards his business n
/ n pleasure He DlavS II as he nlavs >
are certain qualities which need t. be
! taught and preached in this game o.
/ housekeeping. in order that we NAV
/ show the great end and object of il
all and stop focusing our attention on
/ the means Cookino and sewing are =
/ means To the end They are not ends
/ in themselves And the end and aim
I Of home economics are to accomplish
I tneNe means, indt we NAV TcNiCV tlS
/ labor connected with them to the min
imum. and learn in rhe marg'n of time
we thereby gain. the Art OF low"
mont with its trained leader the wO-
Under the direction OF this depart-
men Of the federated clubs will IN
/ douhtedlv make great strides in the
/ direction indicated and their influence
/ will he widely felt: for thew are a mil
4 lion strong. and constantly creaSinq
/ in numbers II little leaven le1v-
/ eth the whole hmm. surely the inAu-
/ crce of these ambitions and conScier-
/ tious women must he OF incalculahlc
/ effect in raising the tone and standard
/ OF living throughout the country.