The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-03-23
Home Economics Day at the Wom-
and's Club


and's Club
Saturday was home economics day
on the Womans Club calendar and
for the afternoon Mrs. e. w. Mar
tin, chairman of the household Geo.
Monies committee, had arranged an
excellent program. The ladies COM
posing the committee, are all active
workers and with their efficient
leader an excellent program was ex-
pected, but they surpassed the high
est expectations of any club member
for their program was not only the
best for this year but of the entire
club life
les is being recognized throughout
the country. Colleges, universally,
are having it included in their cur
riculum and 1t was just few years
ago that the Florida State College
for Women, at Tallahassee, was the
only Florida school teaching it and
now the honor mist be shared with
a dozen or more. The committee is
DESTROYS of having the course taught
in the public school here and no
doubt, when our new school building
is completed, home economics will
command several hours of each
weeks work.
The meeting was called to order
by the president, Mrs. c. r. Ty-
minutes, as read by the secretary,
Mrs. Martin proceeded with the pro-
gram, which was attentively listened
to by all present.
The demonstration of bread MAX
ing and a lecture on Food Values,
by Mrs. w. T. Gary, were the prin-
cipal topics. Mrs. Gary took the
short course recently in domestic
science at the Florida State College,
and she is thoroughly competent to
talk on the subjects assigned her.
The kitchen utensils used to carry
on the demonstration were loaned
by McIver & MacKay, the electric
apparatus by Mr.. H. w. Tucker, the
large variety of food stuffs for dem
onstration and lecture was given by
the Carn-Thomas Grocery Company
and Mr.. Walter Marsh contributed
meat, oysters, etc, all of which
was appreciated by the club and
io1 Nv hIy f6ln
Mrs. Gary's bread recipe aroused
considerable interest, for according
to her directions it may be made il
two hours. This recipe will be es
pecially appreciated by housekeep
ers and is as follows:
Three teaspoonsful of sugar, Il
teaspoonsful of salt; 3 poonsfu
of butter, 1 cup hot water, 1cul
Fleischman's compressed yeast, dis
solved in 6 tablespoonful of luke
warm water. Mix sugar, salt but
ter, hot water and milk, when luke
warm add dissolved yeast and thel
-four gradually. When kneaded pu
bowl in pan of water, hot enough t,
keep hand in comfortably, and lie
rise until twice the bulk At tina
stage mold into rolls and let rise un
til twice the bulk; then bake.
Mrs. Gary also gave recipe 70
mullins and timbals. Mullins requir
A-cup butter, u cup cugar. cup
f1our . toocnoopcfuI holyino rou,dr,
q cup milk; timbals, q cup flour
19-cup milk, l egg, l tablespoonful
NELSON'S oil, ~ -teaspoonful salt,
teaspoonful sugar. While the brea
teresting program was rendered
which included a delightful plan
solo, Soaring" by Miss Mary Ell
vim, splendid paper by Mrs F. E
McClane who told What Home. Et
omics Stand For The Aim @
Home Economics, tersely write
by Mrs. A. E. Burnett, Mrs. H. +
Harold, Mrs. P. ]. Theus, Mrs W. +
Dodge and Mrs. S. r. Pyles wer
read, and Mrs. J. d. Rooney read
very excellent paper on "Revolutio
inHousehold Management The la
ter contained important informatio
and emphasized how very necessar
it is for girls and women to be edu
Gated along these lines, what
means for the coming generation an
what is now being done
Another interesting subject wa
What Other States Are Doing i
Household Economics, and ITO pre-
pare the paper Mrs Martin wisel
chose Mrs. L. W. Duval, an ex-chair
man of the same committee, who re
lated the wonderful progresss bein
made in clubs throughout the coun
try. Mrs. Duval told the importan