The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-02

gro woman who has gained her e5,.
cation peeling potatoes, choppinc car.
ton, baking hoe cake on a board AM
in such classes as thar can make s-u.
thing like the wholesome and paI...
BILE food that one Of these young Wa.
men can who have studied the thea-x
Of food construction and the cher.>.
try of nutrition and the growth al.
the body. The thought occurred -.
me there in the domestic science d..
partment that if every farm home /,
this big State Of North Carolina han
one girl who had put in one season. a.
Red Springs domestic science labora-
tory the reputation Of our dining
rooms would go from one ocean To-
the other in six months time. Bless
your souls, you put an intelligant
white girl, one who is of your own
household. right here in the training
school. and let her get an intelligent
idea of what is taught the girls here
and as a State we "a defy all the
various ailments hat afflict mankind.
for a properly fed and nourished
household does not have much cal
for the doctor.
Same way in the other departments
hat train girls for practical lines. The
girls who are making dresses here
are not simply learning to sew. They
begin with the WOO and the cotton
n the flax. They learn materials
n the value of materials. The girl
who stays a year at Red Springs vii
buy supplies for her family with an
entirely different idea of things than
the girl who does not know Shoddr
from wool or merceriZed dafnaSk from
linen. She will know when her
clothes are cut and fitted properly il
she does not make them herself. She
will know why two cOlOrS are select
ed to go with each other, why one
thing is better in a dress or coat. ana
why another is Objectionable. She vii
know why two colors are selected 10
go with each other, why one thing j.
better in a dress or cOat, and why
another is Objectionable. She Will
know hat she is not a fright when She
arrays herself in a new " for She
VIII know what are the rules hat gov
ern ~presentable arrangements. She
will know how to clOthe her family in
a way that gets the best results for
the money.
Taking The Broad View.
The girls at Red Springs are faciu4
a broad view of life. We heard them
play the big pipe organ, the piano, ana
as dainty a thing as o will hear i.
a month of Sundays was q trifle IL
which n Of the young women show
ed remarkable control of a violin.
IluLcu OOWn IC u low tone 10 give tAN
preston to skill in the higher posi-
tons and with the harmonics. They
are broadening in all directions. and
where you see some in wash DRAWING
and in oils Q see some in flour an
some in Latin, and some in English
poetry, and some untying the hard
knots of logarithms.
Like Sisyphus DR.. Vardell is rollins
the stone up the hill, and it is a task
But fortunately this particular hill
will hav a slighter grade as the days
go by, and the John the Baptist who
is prOclaiming new truths in the
wilderness is. bound to have his warn
ings heard. Red Springs is pressing
the cause of the women Of North
Carolina, n because the women Of
North Carolina are the h~ome-makers
and the homes are the makers of the
State, Red Springs is slowly, but mos
perslstently leavening a vast lumI
with a powerful leaven that will short
~ show it's effects.
There is an old question Of how Il
keep the young people on the farms
My idea Of the answer is to pay {
visit to Red Springs and look in or
the work the girls are doing at tht
Southern Presbyterian college. Thes.
girls are going away from here Il
make a lot Of farms more attractive
The boys of North Carolina ar
learning at their colleges to make tn,
farms more profitable. The girls her.
are learning how to make the farm,
more attractive.
> Put a Red Springs domestic scienct
girl on every farm in h State ant
instead OF the young folks leaving tn.
farms You cannot dog them away, ant
; young folks and old folks will be turn
ing to the farms from everywhere il
drOveS.