The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-08


/ am winner again" as / have been
for the past three years Of all first
premiums which was offered by the
Fair Association, coming under the
head of Domestic Science.
Now, it may interest some canning
club girl to know how have been able
to do this.
Any little girl can do the same as I
have done. For am only little girl,
ard suppose I'm doomed to never be
anything. but just "little girl
For overheard the other day GER
tain lady telling my mother to never
under any circumstances allow me to
grow up
But never mind. / like it. Being
little girl.
But I'm getting away from what l
started out to say-the reason have
been able to accomplish what have
is:
First: / have natural taste and love
for the work. in fact I love all the
sciences SO far as. I have studied them.
am getting foundation in my own
home, and later on in college, mean
to make special study OF Home Eco
nomice and Domestic Science. have
loved it ever since I was tiny tot,
not tall enough to reach the top of the
stove, / used TO beg mother for small
pieces of dough, that I might have the
joy of cooking biscuits myself.
Second: / say second, not because
my mother comes second, for my
mother is second to none. But this,
if a girl had dozen mothers TO teach
her, if she did not love the work and
did not try to apply herself very lit
tie would she accomplish.
have a mother who likes to teach
J her girls how to do things and who
never as yet refused material for me
to work with, and one who never tires
of telling me how things. are DONE
Many time when was only little
tot would ask her if / might make
cookies, or cake like some she had
made, she would never refuse me, per-
haps she might be sewing at the time.
She would tell me what the recipe
called for, and maybe my little feet
would patter back and fourth from
kitchen to sewing room half dozen
times before / would get the recipe
stirred up, for fear would leave
something out.
When later on asked that she write
down with pencil some recipes for me,
flor no cook book contained as fine
recipes as those contained in mothers
head.)
/ would tack these recipes up and
sometimes the pantry door would be
covered with little slips of paper, but
I didn't mind, was learning to cook.
Our Demonstration Agent told you
worked with my mother, and well
right she say this, else would not
have known what do about cooking,
picking, preserving, jelly making. etc.
have worked with my mother.
have not merely stood and looked on
while my mother did the work.
have worked at other times
while my mother sat in chair and
gave instructions.
/ I have also worked when she was
not any where near, and now my
mother says, she is being well, well
repaid for her trouble IN teaching me.
In that she can sit with, and enjoy her
company, while I prepare dinner for
same, and says she is not the least
bit nervous when escorting friends to
one of my dinners for she knows ev-
erything is O. K.
Now please don't think am bragg
ging, when say this. do not mean
| it that way. But do want you girls
to know that / can "CAN" and pre-
serve and make pickles and cook a
dinner (fit for king, so Papa says)
without my mothers help.
work with my mother, and also
work without my mother. But there
is lots and lots more for me to learn
There is q great deal more that my
mother tran teach me. have just be-
gun to learn. am at the foot of the
ladder, but am going to climb to the
in Domestic Science. and am saving
all my money TO spend on my educa-
ton, with this end in view.
| Yvonne Seckinger.