Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-05-06
MEETS SUCCESS IN
HOME WORK
MISS BRADY ORGANIZES 9
CLUBS TO TEACH SEWING
AND COOKING
VIII Spend This Week At Athens,
COrinth, Milan and COlby-Canning
Clubs This Summer Will Be New
Feature of Work.

| Miss Mary Brady, home demon
strator, who is located in the Univers-
| ity Extension Office, has met with un-
usual success in her home demonstra-
ton work throughout Marathon county
For over year she has been con-
stantly at the task, organizing clubs
speaking before women's organiZa-
tions, and visiting homes in which she
has believed she could be of service
The responses she has had everywhere
have indicated with what enthusiasm
Marathon county housewives welcome
valuable information.
Girls Clubs
Girls clubs, in which the members
are ten to nineteen years of age, have
been formed at Hatley, Ringle, Colby,
Athens, Edgar, Mosinee and near An
tigo in the northeastern part of the
county. One is also existing at the
county training school. In the red
brick school to the west of the city, in
the town of Stettin, Miss Brady has
organized a club, which is under the
direction of Miss Sophia Monian,
teacher. These clubs devote much
time to sewing and cooking and as
often as possible Miss Brady visits
each.
81 have been very much encouraged
too," Miss Brady declares, "by the
wonderful cooperation extended by
the mothers. They have been akeenly
interested in everything that has been
done and have taken an active part
themselves. l have had the opportun-
| ity to address many ladies' aid So
| cieties in joint meetings, and other
organizations of a similar nature
They have made possible much that
is now being done for the children
Canning Clubs
That most of these Girls clubs will
next summer take up canning is the
belief of Miss Brady. During her
trips about the county the past month
she has acquainted the girls with this
idea and it has been seized eagerly
Mothers, she declares, have indicated
their willingness to cooperate, even
to the extent of having their daugh-
ters come to Wausau for a time fol
| instruction. 1t is the intention o1
Miss Brady to arrange so that prizes
can be awarded at the end of the
summer, when canned goods would bt
displayed at the county fair, the de-
cisions to be made by competent judg
es. Already some $50 has beer
pledged for this purpose. Several
clubs have already signified their de
sire to undertake canning.
To Speak
This week will be spent by Miss
Brady in the western part of Mara
thon county, A joint meeting Of thu
Ladies Aid societies of Colby will b.
held tomorrow afternoon, when tht
home demonStrator will speak. Or
Thursday she will give a sewing dem
onstration at Milan, later in the da,
speaking at Corinth, and Friday af
ternoon will be spent in Athens.
"But do not think that the mos
important part of this work is ad
dressing large meetings, for it isn't,
Miss Brady declares, referring to he
demonstrations. "It is the most pleas
ure to call at homes where l believ,
can be of service and where l cal
get ideas as well as suggestions.
Perhaps one of the best undertaking g
lis that of getting women together
getting them acquainted with eacl
lother, she ayers. That women like t.
mingle with each other is a fact, AM
by meeting for social afternoons, the.
are able to receive together the bene
fit of the experience of outsiders
while the outsiders may likewise OBJ
tain much from their observation o
lnew acquaintances.
Women to Meet
| Unless plans are changed, Wausa1
and Marathon county women are al
asked to attend a grand get-togethe
to be held in Wausau at Cyrus YaW
key Hall of the First Universalis
church on Saturday, May oath. Ac
Icording to Miss Brady, everyone is in
vited to be present, and especial.
women throughout the county ar
urged to attend. Several will be aske,
Ito deliver toasts. Mrs. Nellie KedZi
Jones, of Madison, at the head of tn
University Extension, Home Demon
stration department, will speak, a
will also Miss Agnes Boeing of Madi
son. A large group is expected. Thi
Injecting is in a way the outgrowth o
a plan to induce social and war worl
organizations to become interested il
Ihome demonstration work.