The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-03-28
VOnAH'S CLUB WORK
Mrs. H. Harold. Editor for March


" new subject IN the currlcula OF
/ schools. II is newer yet. as a large.
growing. important department Of
club work There is now but one
state that has no home economics
department in its club work but the
kind OF work TO be done. the oppor-
/ tunities and demand for it vary wide
! ~ in different parts Of the country.
! This is so in the schools and in col
| leges as we'll as in the clubs There
! is growing demand for text books
| in this work which is but one Of the
| indications that, after years of effort
! experimenting with different means
/ to accomplish a uniform purpose
| there has grown up content of the
! subject and some uniformity in its
| divisions ana presentation. Yet. it
| remains wholly true that there is
| much popular misunderstanding of
| its scope, meaning and purpose. The
| tendency TO limit its field TO the mere
| activities of cooking and sewing is
| lessening, and both men and women
are rapidly learning to appreciate its
value in the economic field, but the
| pioneer work is by no means all
| done
| 1t is still necessary in many places
! to begin with cooking and sewing as
was done in Massachusetts way back
! in 1870. Cooking demonstrations
| are not to be despised as means. OF
reaching women who are rightfully
| tired Of planning some one thousand
and ninety-fiye meals each year, with
a far too limited number of ideas on
a variety of ways to use the same few
| food materials. But when one must
begin this way, it is necessary to
show that cooking and sewing have
never been hone by any one for the
sake of th4 motion study they in
volve, or fof mere motor education.
Nor should they end in the cake Or
the apron. The good bread Mary
learns to make should receive its
| prize. when il is worthy to win it,
| and the JOY Of making the best loaf
| in the county is far greater than that
of taking thf prize for the best ora
ton. The sAnse of real accomplish
ment is very far reaching when
creative in III ice of memorizing work
is done. Borrower, one would be
willing TO le78,e it to almost any jury
| of men and Aomen as to which con-
| tanned the More real educational
value, the achievement of the best
loaf Of bread or the best essay on
Maize as the Food of Our Country"
Yet. the end is not bread. it is far
greater even than this. II is that for
which the wheat is grown, reaped
and milled and the bread set. raised,
made and eaten, or no less a thing
than human efficiency. The purpose
of home economics is better men and
| women, because Of their better sur
roundings, or better individual there
fore better civic or community
homes; then because of their right
living. Home economics specifically
ard directly teaches those things
which should and Will result in the
all around development of the hui
man being, and it is the perfection
of the human spirit which is it's aim
This naturally means that home
| economics is part, a very vital, far
reaching part OF education. 1t should
in fact, be a division of the educa-
ton department Of the clubs, and
would be probably if it had found its
settled place within the limits, the
limitless limits of the educational
field. It means that it is included in,
or includes civics, and il frequently
infringes on the territory that civics
preempts. Public health is home
economics for public health measures
are accomplished through the ideals
and efforts Of the community mem
bers. Thus, We find throughout the
country a lack of uniformity in the
home economics work which seems
most upsetting to some chairmen,
and which does create difficulties on
occasions. These, however. are more
seeming than real.
1t might seem wise to say here
that there is the utmost accord. be-
tween the chairmen OF these various
departments whether in the general
or state declarations. and any over
tapping and duplication Of work is
principally regretted because OF the
confusion it causes in the minds of
the club members in different places,
or those who working IN one state in
home economics find their work call
VILLA MOVING ON TO VICTORY