Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-24
LOTHIAN CLUB OF
HOME ECONOMICS
Holds Successful Exhibit In The
County.
SIX PRIZES AWARDED
Strong Appeal For Liberty Lean By
Chaplain Evans-Claggett
Hall Crowded.
SIX PRIZES AWARDED

C2Ac6NS AAeAAs uCoA ots JoAA@o
Church, Tracey's Landing, this coun-
Ity, was crowded to overfowing yes
terday afternoon at the exhibition of
canning done by the ladies of the
Home Economics Club at Lothian.
The hall, an attractive building,
was decorated with cosmos, white
chrysanthemums and dahlias, and
long tables spread either side and at
the end facing the entrance demon
strated the splendid work done by the
Lothian Club during the past sum-
mer under the direction of Miss Mil
dred Revell Brady, County Demon
+ strator in the Cooperation Exten-
sion Work in Agriculture and Home
Economics for Maryland
! Each county has its agent and
demonstrator, and they are subordi-
nate to the State Demonstration and
Agent, Miss Venia Kellar, who was
also present at the Lothian Clubs
exhibit yesterday.
The work is being done under the
direction of the State College OF
Agriculture, College Park, by whom
1t is specialized.
There are eleven clubs of women
in Anne Arundel County who have
been engaged since last spring in
Home Economics work The Lothian
Club has made a splendid record
Their work displayed yesterday was
highly creditable There were cans
(glass jars) of corn, peas, beans,
beets, cherries, pineapple. peaches,
apple, and all kinds of jellies, as we'll
as dried fruits and vegetables of all
kinds.
All the cans were numbered and
the judges awarded the prizes as fol-
low, according to numbers, not
knowing until the numbers were call
ed who were the prize-winners:
The first prize, No. "a, for best
canned vegetables and fruits. went to
Miss Emily Murray. The prize was
use, measuring cans, sieves graters,
tin cups, pans, etc.
No. "a was also congratulated for
splendid specimens of dried fruits
The second prize was awarded Mrs
William Seares for jellies and pre-
serves; the third, Mrs. Davidson, for
pickle; fourth, Mrs. Early Phibbins,
for pickle Mrs. Gray won prize for
dried fruits and vegetables, and Mrs.
o. Perry, No. 40, for canned vege-
tables. All the prizes were useful
articles, such as nest of bowls, cold
meat fork, butter spreaders, etc.
Miss Brady, in awarding the prizes,
congratulated the women on their in
terest in the work and the splendid
result, and thanked them for their
hearty cooperation.
The work Of the club will be re-
sumed next year along more advanc-
ed lines.
Several addresses were made prior
to the awarding of prizes, but the
Lothian Club exhibit was the chief
feature of the occasion, as it was the
"Club's Own Day
The rector of ST. James, Rev. Hugh
Martin, made forceful speech, ex-
planning and outlining features of the
government that had led up to this
Home Economics work The Rector
explained the meatless days, and the
wheatless days, and the obligation
resting upon each family and in
dividual. He paid a glowing tribute
to Mr.. Hoover, the National Food Ad-
ministrator, and told of his wonder
full work in Belgium and what that
nation owed to him.
Mr. Martin read letters from the
President and from Mr.. Hoover, also
| from Mr.. Francis Carey, Chairman OF
the Executive Committee for the Ma
tional Food Administration. He made
an earnest appeal to all present to
help the government win this war by
saving food and avoiding waste.
Miss KeIlar.
Miss venia Kellar. State Agent OF
the woman's Department of Home
Economics. made dignified and i'm
pressive speech, brief, but to the
point. Practically the whole world
is at war, she said Fighting is going
on in the atmosphere, under the
water. all around and about. No
| sooner was war declared than the
Department at Washington sent out
kilograms to every agricultural de-
partment throughout the United
States that this war must be fought
in the burrows, as we'll as in the
trenches. We must fight behind the
plow as well as behind the flag.
History is being made, and women
are helping to make it, she said
Never was woman's place in the
world as important as it is now. We
are glad we do not live in the age
! when it is respectable to die on the
record of our ancestry. but all on a
| common level. fighting must be done
bv the high and the low. the rich and
the poor. the aristocrat and the
| plebeian.
On the oath OF last April the big
gest piece of news went broadcast
the food problem, an unsolvable propo-
sition. Hoover said it must be solved
70 win this war. and the solution was