The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-11
WE'LL SHOW MOTHER
HOW TO MAKE PIES
Daughter Does the Work Nowadays" Said Pretty Miss
Laura Reilly, of Charlotte, at the Woman's Club Con
vention, and When they Laughed the Daughters of
the Biennial Was Born.
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make are no more, but they're going
10 be.
Their resurrection to a yearning |
people will come about because of
some Mothers laugh. 1t really was
the amused laugh Of an entertained
crowd, but earnest, wholesome Laura
Holmes Kelley. Of Charlotte, N. c., to
whom it was directed, heard in it a !
note Of cynicism and doubt.
So she and her sisters in youth are
going to show Mother" They will
discover other things to Mother, more
over. They will show her she is run
ming away with herself" in trying to
cure with mOther-lOve, not science, the
ills Of the world.
Youth, not age, will apply the cold
light of reason to woman's activity,
and age, not youth, will listen and
learn.
They have formed an organization.
II is the Daughters of the Biennial"
1t is the daughterhood Of the twelfth
Federation of Women's Clubs, which
concluded it's work in Chicago last
week.
Five thousand persons sat in hte
auditorium at the birth of the Show
Mother movement. They were there
20 near two mothers Of great, far
reaching sympathies tell the delegates
what youth might bring to the feder-
ated womer's clubs Of America. They
we're there to hear the flower of FEM
tnine youth read from its newly
opened book Of life the diary jottings
written therein, to show h the fed
Grafton might do for the young WOm-
en- of America.
That WAS the SCENE The prologue
had been the formation Of a social
organization Of daughters Of delegates
to the convention, to fill a passing
uhim of the girls.
On the stage is Miss Kelley. Her
mother is corresponding secretary OF
the general federation.
Tall, typically southern is the
daughter. Raven hair, soft brown
eyes, a slender white throat, a smile
Of the essence of girlish sweetness are
enwrapped in a simple, becoming
white frock. She is the ~persOnifica-
ton Of the sweet girl graduate. h
audience loves her and she is conf
dent. She speaks not to an audience,
but to her own crowd. All are happy.
She is saying:
"Who is it packs Mothers trunk
when she goes to the board meetings?
Daughter. Who is it attend to mend
ing while Mother is ame~liOrating the
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is it who bakes the pies that Mother
used to make? Daughter"
The smiles in the house ran into
laughter that fioated down to her and
drew a cloud On her brow. Erect. dig-
nif1ed, right out of %girlhood, h step
ped into womanhood in a lash. The
crowd was mystifled.
But few knew that back of Miss
Reilley's few years lay at least three
passed in sincere and earnest study
Of home economics. Her mother
says:
She is a perfect shark at home
economies. She showed me SO many
things about running my w house.
hold l never would have thought Of
I've turned it over to her.
She does the mending Mother useC
20 do; she packs Mothers trunk anC
does it quickly, completely and well
And, most important, she does MAKE
the pies Mother used to make"
Miss Kelley was not Sht
was hurt at the cynicism she heard II
that laugh. So were the other daugh
ters who had added to their skill a
the tango, the maxixe and the pian'
even greater skill in the science o
making q home out of raw and mea
ger material.
There was called a c~onvocation o
youth-indignant, hurt, we'll-show
EN- youth.
Ruth Pennybacker, who's mothe
is president of the general federation
also has been a student Of home eco
Monies. So has the charming daugh
Ter OF he treasurer of the federation
who insists she is Miss NJ. Williams
not Margaret, Mignonette or Mariana
but II. Williams.
Likewise there is Winifred Fairfa
Warder, whose rea hobby is rose cul
lure. and Ruth Lipscomb, Josephin
and lrma Max, Agnes Squire Potter
who has the great name of a grea
mother to live up to; Pansy Peel
Dorothy Potter, Katherine King Fay
tombstone, Marjorie Shuler, Luci]
BELL, Florence Tanning, Celia Nal
unez of PARKWAY Havana and Mis-
Ellen James of st. Joseph, Mo, VIII
was Mrs. P~ennybacker's constant a