The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-04-23

Rural Clubs and Rural Schools
Mrs. Cora A. Chaplin tells the how,
why, and wherefore of The Country
Culture Club at Appleton City, Mo.
You ask me to tell you how we
happened to form club in our neigh
borhood and how we did it?
In 1911 Iattended the Home Makers
Conference at Columbia. During the
year, Miss Kinney, the president,
asked me to represent the organiza-
ton as delegate at the biennial
meeting Of the Federated Clubs of
Missouri. attended the meeting at
Sedalia, the inspiration and knowledge
given me by the president, Mrs. H.
E. Shepard, and others, whom met
there, caused me to more earnestly
wish to have something for our neigh
borhood women. We had in our
neighborhood a Farm Home and I'm
provement Club composed Of fathers
and mothers, and children all working
together, and meeting once month
at the school house. One evening a
call was made for the ladies to meet
and form a club. Suffice it to say we
had large and enthusiastic crowd of
ladies at the firstmeeting. Weorgan-
lied and have had between twenty
and thirty members for three years.
We plan years program ahead and
have our program printed in a year
book. We have studied home eco
Monies, literature and history.
As to our activities, we have Sc
cured three lecturers and three imper-
senators. Living in the country as
we do it is worth while to have first
class entertainment at our door. We
have an oyster supper, an ice cream
social and husbands day once a
year. We help the Farm Home I'M
provement Club with their annual
fair. We have sent delegates to dis
trict and state meetings Of federated
clubs, also to the International Dry
Farming Congress at Tulsa, Okla,
and the Home Makers Conference
which meets at Columbia, We have
given money to flood sufferers, schol-
arship loan fund, Sunshine Society
and helped the poor and suffering
near us: Our club being a new idea
to the men, some Of them at first
questioned the wisdom of the move
ment. Now we believe all are heart
lily in favor of it.
We have been an incentive to other
women to form clubs. The members
Of our club are very enthusiastic in
belief Of what it has done for them
their homes, and the community. W.
believe the world has been made bet
! ter by women's clubs, that they are
a benefit to mankind. As farm WON.
en-, it broadens our interests, promotes
our sociability, it lifts the drudgery
of house work, awakes hidden talents
and makes us more thoughtful of each
other.
Happy homes is our motto. We
are trying to advance the good of all
of our loved ones. We think it pays
the country women to take time to be
progressive and up to date.
Itispathetic the amount of Influence,
culture, and power for good that is
going to waste in the lives of our
country women, simply because SO
few recognize and appreciate the pos
sibilities, and sadder still they do not
appreciate themselves and their op-
portunities.
What the Country Culture Club Holds
for the Farm Woman
The farm home and the farm COM
munity can not be better expressed
than in quoting and emphasizing the
words of Mrs. Cora Chaplin in her
splendidly inspiring story of The
Country Culture Club of Appleton
City. She says: ut broadens our in
terests, promotes our sociability, lifts
%hn d,u,doorx, If houco work owokac