The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-08
WORK Of THE
GIRLS CLUBS
IN CARTERC CO.
MOST SATISFACTORY YEAR, is
VERDICT OF MRS. MARY V. NIB.
LACK, WHO HAS DONE MUCH
TO PROMOTE THIS WORK.

Since the middle of January there
have been enrolled in the Canning
Club 205 members; in the Better
Bread Club 1872 members, and in the
Poultry club 1877 members. Moving
of families to other points, storms
and rains, failure to get promised
ground for their gardens, vacation
visits, and sickness, have been the
causes that contributed to the cutting
down of the active membership, but
all have been instructed in the lines
of work taken up, and al have de-
rived some good from the club work.
There still remains a large body ac-
lively at work and enthusiastic over
results obtained and these are fine,
splendid girls and boys and they are
snatching the banner of yictory from
the very hands of defeat
As rule, the department ravors
membership Of 80 to 100 members,
thus giving the agent better oppor.
tunity to do much personal work.
But it is not their wish 30 turn away
one eligible to membership. Still, one
entire club and number Of individ-
ual applicants for memb.l ship had to
be rejected this year on account of
the large number enrolled. These,
however, are placed on the roll for
membership next year.
All the material used Il the Better
Bread Club work is simp e and is of
a character to be found in the average
home, but a number of members have
become discouraged from a lack of
material available. The lack of a
single item for recipe prevents the
working out of that recipe.
The chief difficulty among the
young poultrymen is inability to pur-
chase poultry of a good breed and to
secure a run for them. This diff
Guilty is great in the comfy as well
as in town. Poultry-raising appeals
greatly to boys, and there are few
who would not engage ir this lucra-
tive business if they could get proper
equipment to begin with.
The efforts of the club boys and
girls have in many instances been
! truly heroic, where storms have
swept away poultry and gardens, leav-
ing nothing behind. Sometimes three
or four paintings have been destroyed,
but they worked on and ct last sue
| ceeded. Others gave up on the first
keen disappointment
Taking the lowest membership es-
| timate,-that of fifty,-and keep that
number at work each yraT studying
better methods of bread-ma aking, can
ming fruits and vegetables, and better
poultry and more of it, and any coun-
ty carrying on this work will be con-
| tinually elevated in the scale OF home
! life and home-making. Besides this,
there is the increased prosperity and
| happiness in the home which are to
! be considered in connection with this
work. A poorly fed home cannot be
a very happy home, nor can it furnish
that yirile strength to its boys and
! girls so necessary to meet the battles
! of life. Mothers catch much from
| their daughters who are students in
the club work. The mother of Carter
county's first prize-winner last year
said she had never known how to can
a vegetable till her little girl of thir-
teen years, the youngest of a large
/ family, joined the canning club. 1t
was sight to see that mothers
stock of vegetables prepared fo9 last
winter. How much had that family
lost in all those years, when nothing
was saved from the big garden for
winter use!
Another family of boys Joined the
Better Bread club because they had
no mother or sister to cock for them
and they wanted to make good bread.
Two or three of those boys have gone
to the A. & NJ. College. Another boys
mother keeps some of the ginger
breads made by his club recipes all
the time. She says the children en-.
joy it more than any other cake.
Constipation is tne starting point
for many serious diseases. To be
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