University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-01-03
How Women Are Aided
by Home Makers Club


tend a normal school or university,
but by this method the normal and
university learning is carried to
them free OF charge.
Fifteen members are necessary
for the organization of a club. The
officers are president, vice-president
and secretary. Meetings are held
either once or twice a month. The
course of study may be planned by
the club, each member suggesting
subjects which she would like to
study, or the club may follow an
outline published by the State
Board of Agriculture.
The program includes any sub
ject which will make for better
homes. First a thorough under
standing of the meaning of home
economics is given, emphasizing
that II means more than the baking
OF biscuits or the drafting of pat
tern, that rather it is the solving of
the problem of adjusting the boy
and girl, the man and the woman
to the twentieth century home con-
ditions. Such subjects as the fam
lily diet, the spring and summer
sewing, sanitation, labor-saving de-
vices, clothing for children, the bal
anced meal, poultry, household
management, the garden, preven-
ton of disease, ventilation in the
home and school and home nursing,
are studied in a comprehensive way.
Besides the regular program, each
club takes up some special work.
Clubs can obtain lectures and dem
onstrations on any subject without
cost.
The Work for 1915.
One subject which is coming into
more and more prominence is the
question and answer department.
Through this department the men,
bers of the club may write to the
state board for any information per
tanning to the home, and receive
prompt reply.
For 1915, the work is on much
more definite basis. A new outline
for club study will be published;
monthly news letter, containing
references for the months work
and articles on timely subjects,
will be sent to each club and refer
ence books for club and home Ii
brary will be recommended.
That home makers clubs are for
rural communities alone is an er-
roneous idea. So far, it is true,
more clubs have been organized in
the country and the small town than
in the large town. But the notion
should not be gained that the city
woman needs this course of stuay
less than the country woman or that
the line of work followed fills her
needs the less.
There is a popular belief" de-
clares Miss Bah Bell. that the farm
home is different from all others
and that all our energies should be
devoted to its improvement. There
is practically no difference between
the farm home and the home of the
small town.
The Woman Who "Has No Time"
THE first argument advanced by
the average woman when urged to
join the club is that she has no
time for clubs. While admitting
that this is a convincing argument
from the woman who does all of her
own housework, / insist that this
is the very woman who needs club
work the most. The club tends to
help the woman who after years of
housework finds her duties mere
drudgery, to a full realization of
how wonderfully interesting and vi
tai home work really is. Now, when
the household work becomes over
whelming there is but one thing to
do-join the home makers club, fino
out the latest methods of house
keeping, learn how to do your work
more quickly, easily and with much
better results. systematic your
work and simplify your method OF
living"
1t is just these things that Miss
Bell is endeavoring to impress upon
the women of home makers clubs.
Whatever is new, whatever will help
them to make better homes, to give
greater ease in their Housekeeping,
she collects, and these new methods,
devices and thoughts she carries to
the women of the clubs.