The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-09-18
.BAKEK scHoon MEETING:
Home Demonstration Club Holds In
terestins session.

The first regular meeting of the re
Gently organized Baker School Home
Demonstration Club. and the Baker
School Rural Health Association was
,,eld Friday, September 18th with 3
splendid attendance of patriotic and
,ublic spirited men. women, boys
and girls. of that school district.
More than ordinary interest was
manifested in rural health work and
home economics, and it looks a
:lough the good people of that sec
ton are wideawake to the Inn
,ortance of planting and conserving
food and increasing the physical and
moral efficiency of the man and Wo-
nan power to help our soldiers ano
our government to win the war and
It the same time get ready for the
sarly- approa IN of the cotton boil
weevil.
Miss Alice J. Martin, home demon
stration agent in charge Of this nome
demonstration club interestingly lee
t1red on the proper diet for babies
nd other children, and the care OF
mix and protection Of foods for
Mothers and infants, proper diets for
10th, and she then proceeded te
prepare and cook before the audience
certain baby foods and explained the
easeas for the proper preparation
md protection Of the dietary foods
nd explained the evil effects on ba-
les of improper nourishment for
aothers and babies.
Mrs. E. w. sDabbs lectured on the
are of the Sick to prevent the
spread Of communicable diseases
nd demonstrated the correct and
ip.to- date methods Of nursing SICK
p5eople by the manner in which pa
tients should be handled and bathed
md the time and labor saving meth
ids to be adopted in the sick room
md how to prepare patients bed,
now to Keep the room sanitary, and
the patient comfortable and at the
anne tine protect the nurse and The
anI1y from becoming infected.
Mrs. Dabbs EN- phasized the hu-'
name and economic value of a coun-
~ health survey and twelve months
campaign Of education, and request
sd her audience to contribute TO-
Yards the raising of the two thou
sand and Eve hundred dollars neces-
sary for this survey, and referred to
The public spirited efforts Of the col
,red citizens Of this county in rails
ing among themselves six hundred
iollars for this public health survey.
She hoped that the time is near whei
he rural districts Of this county, like
other counties. and like the city Of
Sumter, viii ave a public trained
nurse to help the poor people in at
sending to their sick ones.
Dr.. +. H. Haynsworth, county su-
perintendent of education heartily
endorsed the home demonstration,
and the Rural Health Association Of
that community.
He congratulated the people OF
that school district for. their interest
in home economics and improve
nent of rural sanitary conditions
aid. that the Sumter County, Board
OF. Education stands ready, TO back
ap financially and Otherwise the home
iemonsfration club If that school viii
organize a domestic science class.
and the teachers will agree to teach.
under. Miss Martins supervision, do
nestle science in that school. He too
advocated education OF the masses
IN preventing sickness and the spread
Of communicable diseases. Though.
hygiene should be taught the rural
pe ople as well as city.
Mrs. H. w. Beall, who presided in
the absence Of the president, Mrs.
Jesse Mcleod. delivered a very in
structive talk showing the. progress
that Baker School has. made in recent
years from little fourteen by Six
teen foot. unsanitary, uncomfortable.
and uninspiring and poorly equipped
and poorly financed one-teacher COM
munity. school to a modern and cred
table school building with tro
teachers and much additional equip
ment
Mrs. Bea.ll referred feelingly to the
support given this school and other
rural schools in their home demon
stration and domestic science clubs
and in many other ways by the Sum-
ter Chamber OF Commerce. and its
managing secretary, and thanked
Messrs D. D. Noise and S. L.. Kras-
noff for having presented Baker
School horne demonstration club with
a splendid three burner oil stove and
other necessary cooking equipment to
help the club get Started.
Mr.. E. w. Dabbs spoke Of the ne
cessity Of the people of the rural dis
tricts waking up and doing something
to do away with unnecessary sickness
and the spreadsof communicable dis
eases. He said that there is a deplor-
able and criminally neglectful condi.
ton of affairs in the rural districts
which causes the loss Of hundreds Of
lives annually, causes much suffering
and the loss absolutely unnecessar-
lily Of many thousands of dollars. all
due to pure carelessness, Indifference
neglect. and mostly to ignorance Of
the proper methods Of preventing the
Introduction and the spread of COM
municable diseases. He also endors-
ed the county health survey and
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