Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-05
.WELL-KN0WN women At
MRS. VAUGHN's LECTURES
Interested In Her Homo Economics
School, as Well as Cooking
Demonstration.
WILL SPEAK TO SERVANTS
Special Lecture for Intelligent Col
ored Housekeepers Tomorrow
Morning From 10 to ~ O'Clock.
To Show How to Make War Cake.

What could assuredly be called a
representative audience of Richmond
women gathered carly in the Masonic
Temple yesterday afternoon to hear tho
second OF Mrs. Kate Brew Vaughn's
lectures In the free homo economics
school she is conducting for Tho Times
Dispatch. Looking over tho audience.
which was almost twice as large as
on the previous day. ono saw women
who are prominent In the civic, philan-
thropic and patriotic activities Of tho
city.
There was the well-known president
| OF the Womans Club. who Is chairman
OF the woman's committee OF Rich
mond's counsel of defense, which con.
Quoted the registration Of the house,
wives Of Richmond In the Hoover cam
paign: there were officers Of the Rich
mond chapter Of the Red Cross; mem
bers OF the War Relief Association, of
Virginis: United Daughters of the
Confederacy. Colonial Danes. members
| OF the Catholic Women's Club and Jew
| ish women, whose names stand for
progressiveness and patriotism.
There were chairmen OF committees
| whose activities have been noted since
! the declaration Of war and women who
are active in the work of tho churches
| Of the city. Many moro brought small
dishes and spoons than on the previ-
GUS day In order that they might taste
| the good things prepared by hfrs.
Vaughn in her cooking demonstrations.
Waiting for the lecture to begin.
| they sat and knitted, some Of them, on
the gray sweaters for tho soldiers. and
talked as women always will when
they congregate. together. but note
books and pencils were in conspicuous
evidence and they waited expectantly
for tho lecture to begin.
LECTURES ON HOME ECONOMICS
OF INESTIMABLE VALUE
II there were no cooking whatso-
| ever. Mrs. Vaughn's splendidly practi-
cal lectures on homo economics would
| be OF incalculable value to everyone
| man who interests herself in the con-
duct of home. Being thoroughly IA
miliar with the food situation as II
affects the housekecpers Of the coun-
try, and as II Is likely to affect them
in view OF the war situation. her lee
lures are practical and to the point,
with the dominant theme of conserv-
ing food In every possible way and
yet feeding the family on good whole
some food with balanced meals.
4 life member of the American Red
Cross and deeply interested In tho
activities of the National Counsel Of
Defense. she speaks 'as one having
authority" and because she is de-
lightful speaker. she holds the atten
ton of her audience throughout her
lecture and the attendant demonstra-
ton Of the true inwardness" OF feed
ing Mr.. and Mrs Jones OF Americas
great middle class, and their three
children on a budget OF S45 a month
because Mr.. Jones only receives SAL
AIRY of.t150, and Mrs. Jones must make
that $3.50 cover the total expenditures
of their family and have something
left over besides. ---E --.-
Mrs. Vaughn states with conviction
tat a wife who does not live within
her husbands income. who makes bills
she cannot pay. who habitually spends
more than she has really to spend. is
thief. THE mother who does not
teach her daughter the value OF
| dollar is not quite honest" declared
Mrs. Vaughn. FOR the girl who is never
allowed to spend makes the spend
thrift wife"
WILL DELIVER SPECIAL
LECTURE TO SERVANTS
Because the. servan, problem is of
paramount importance in 80 many hun
dreds of homes. Mrs. Vaughn is going
to devote one morning-Thursday from
10 to IL o'clock-in talking TO the
| servants and intelligent colored house
wives of the city. and Thursday after
noon there will be CLOSED meeting"
for women only-no men at all or
young children under fourteen. years
in the Masonic Temple. when Mrs.
Vaughn will discuss problems that in
evitably present themselves to every
housewife. Of SO serious a nature that
| they cannot be lightly regarded.
Fools Hill' will be the subjec. Of
the lecture. I'VE have all been there
at one time or another" explained Mrs
Vaughn. with her infectious smile at
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