Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1914-08-12
Household Problems.

Miss Caroline Bostick, gradu
ate of Winthrop college, spoke d
conditions and problems in the
home with which our good women
have to grapple. She is very in
telligent young woman and during
the brief period allotted her, made
many helpful suggestions which
the housewives of Edgefeld, and
young women too, could have
heard with profit. Miss Bostlck
began by saying that the day is no,
far distant when most of the wo,
men will have to do their own
work, aud that they should, with
the aid of the husbands and broth
erS, begin TO prepare for it. She
first urged the Improvement of the
household equipment, stating that
ills just as necessary that the wo-
man IN the home be provided with
labor saving devices and machines
with which to perform her duties as
it is necessary for the men on the
farm to adopt labor-saving ma
chinery such IS cultivators, mowers,
binders, etc. Miss Bostick stressed
the importance of having some sort
OF water system in every home,
however crule the system may be-.
She exhibited drawing showing
how barrel can be elevated near
the well and filled with an ordina.
ry hand pump, the water being con-
veyed 10 the kitchen and washing
machine by means of pipes. A gaso-
line engine is preferable to the
hand pump. An improvised water
system of this kind would not be
expensive and would greatly facili-
tate the woman's work in the home.
Miss Bostick stated that there is no
good roason why homes in the coun-
Try can not now have practically as
many convenlences as the homes in
the town. She also urged that
everything ahont the home be con.
Quoted Systematically, a time being
set apart for each duty. She also
urged women to take short period
for rest in the morning and also af-
ter dinner, which will keep them
from becoming prematurely old.
These short periods devoted to ab-
solute rest and relaxation are orth
more than vacation OF a week in
summer.
Miss Bostick urged the use of the
fireless-cooker for the kitchen as
supplement to the range. She
also advised the use of oil stoves
instead of spending. so much time
over the hot range during warm
weather. Miss BoStick closed by
impressing the importance of moth
ers spending more time with their
children, stating as her conviction
that the quality of our citizenship
can be elevated by mothers living
in closer touch with their children,
inStillinG right ideas and inspiring
them with high ideals.
Soil Building.
The last half hour of the inSti-
tute was devoted to soil building,
rhe speaker being W. EIr Barton, OF
t4rcenville, tie district dcmonslra-
ton agent. lie exhibited 4 chart
showing The relative importance OF
hune and religious training, COM
non schools, high schools, colleges.
etc, hut stated that there is . pr;ic-
teal side that must not hc over
looked among the affairs and prob
lens Of life. On the same chart
was drawing showing how the
soil III the south is being depleted
and in the same connection it was
shown how through crop rotation
and the plantin" Of legume$ the
soil can be enriched. Mr. BartoH
stated that South Caroline uses
one fifth Of all of the commercia
fertilizers manufactured, and as
! much as II other southern states
icombined. During the last IL
years the acreage OF cotton has in.
creased % per cent, and the fertlIi
Ter bill has been increased 1856 pei
cent. while the yield has been in
creased only l9 per cent.
Mr.. Barton advocates the sup
plying of nitrogen by storing i
from the atmosphere rather than by
purchasing III the form of CONNER
clal fertilizers, He says the soalh
crn farmer has become the slave OF
the fertilizer manufacturers. Nj