The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-11

They asked us what the general
federation could do for the Young
women OF America" Miss Reilley said.
can't we get them interested in what
the young women of America can do
for the federation"
We just will" vas Miss Penny
reply. In inducting her
mother into office the night before
Miss Pennybacker had read in the
stars or the armament the call to SER
VICE for her mother. She declared it
should serve as the call for the young
m
THE trouble with the dear women
OF the federation" declared Miss Pen
n~ybacker, lis that the organization
has grown SO fast they have been
running away With themselves.
whenever a pressing need comes
up the apply themselves with all the
warm eagefnesS to serve that marks
motherhood, but they don't work |
with fundamentals and hence wear
the complex results, rather Than
causes?"
Miss Warder allowed she was Of
an even opinion. So did Miss Will
liams.
When next the biennial convention
IS called to order there will be a de-
partment for daughters. The daugh-
tiers will have rang programme
showing Mother where the energy she
put into shaping better public health
was waster because it was applied I'M
scientifically.
We'll conduct our whole endeav-
or on the principles Of horne eco
nomics," the girls decided. What
principles will operate and manage a
successful home will work out the
affairs Of a city.
Economy and selection will give
cities better officials and cleaner
streets. Management and inspection
will prevent graft n cut down ex-
penditure sc that less money need be
used for the grosser side Of life, and
more will be available for recreative
and re-creative forces.
: Health is not a whole subject by
itself. 1t is based entirely upon some
other things, sue as sanitation, pre-
caution and economy. Sanitation,
precaution and economy are details
Of home economics which we have
studied for several years.
Civil service reform is a question
Of inspection, selection, intelligent
management INC planning in advance
-au features of the home econo-
mics we have become, in q way, sci
entists in.
art is decoration and recreation,
so fara as its practical aspect are con-
cerned. Home decoration and ar
ranging work so as to permit recra-
ton, together with means of giving
children p1aytime, is a feature of
that home economics.
Management, understanding and
!, cooperation are alike details Of home
economics and legislative policy.
Music is recreation and ennobling
study. Civics is nothing but home
economics applied to a city, town or
state.
"Conservation is economy, the first
principle Of house economics. Educa-
, ton is the preliminary approach to
!, home economics. Industrial and So
cial conditions are products Of mis-
application or nOnapplicatiOn O.
principles Of home economics Of the
| simplest and most fundamental NJ
| ture. Library extension is cO-Opera-
tive, educational and r~ecreative. Co
: operation is a mean to the end Of
home economics.
"Thus we see," concluded the con
: ference of daughters, Mother is
t working painfully and inefficiently
f not fundamental. out resultive ant
secondary.
I'VE propose to show her something
f about applying fundamental princi
pies to all these things. We want tt
show the coordination between al
r these subjects and tell their relation
to the home economics which our pa
rents had us study and become pro
icient in.
Thus we will demonstrate tina
: the big thing for the federation t.
concern itself with is not what it ma.
do for us but what we may do TO
X the federation.
l. 1.-The instruction We may transmi
e to our mothers, not because we al
wiser or more experienced than the,
Il but because we are trained as spe
cialists in duties in which they ar
only home remedy practitioners
will include not only the secret O
making the pies Mother used to max
IS but making them more cheaply, NOR
- quickly and more conveniently, an
+ allowing some time for cultural, edu