The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-09-04
LADIES FURNISH
A GREAT DISPLAY
vast Showing of Handiwork by Home
~akers at Elks Home-Educational
Work of Polk County Exemplified
at the Courthouse.

.Aout the success of the Polk County
Fair, he should visit the Ladies De-
.artment at the Elks Home. Here
be win find on display such varied and
extensive display of products of the
Kitchen. the sewing room and the stu
do that he will be forced to the con-
slusion that the Ladies' Department
~ itself is good fair.
The department is under the direc-
ZION of Mrs. T. r. Jones, jr., as sup
srintendent, assisted by Mesdames
W /. Lauck, R. Goff, w. A. Worthing
Ion and others.
Az the close of the first day, when
ne time for entries closed, 103 per-
sons had placed exhibits in this depart
went, but that number gives no adj
euuate idea of the number of exhibits,
for the entries ranged from one art:
Gle to as high as II made by an indi-
vidual. The range of the exhibits
runs from high class oil painting and
Aand painted china on thru almost the
entire catalog of domestic art and
science.
The exhibits of canned fruits,
.ickles. preserves and jellies and the
display of bread and pastries Indicate
that the housewives of Polk county
had solved the problem of reaching the
heart of man, and then to reach his
artistic temperament they have shown
that they are artists in china painting
and in oil and water painting, to say
nothing Of the fine work in table linen,
scarfs. doilies and those myriads of
ether products Of domestic art that are
. mystery to mere man.
The ladies Of the Acorn Community
Club have an exhibit of their own
along the lines of domestic art, but the
products of the culinary department
ef their homes are part of the large
fruit exhibit which is the first thing
10 attract the visitors attention as he
alters the department headquarters.
One of the most remarkable exhibits
IN this department is that made by the
ladies of more than go years Of age.
Here may be found some of the finest
tatting and crochet work and patch
work quilts, to make which would tax
the eyesight of most persons far on
this side of the meridian of life. Some
ladies who have reached four score
and more years of age have work on
exhibition.
Educational Department Is Strong.
af the critic still needs evidence that
the Polk County Fair is worth while
de should visit the Educational De
partment at the court house, where
the eight schools that have brought In
exhibits have covered nearly all of the
wall space of the court ROOM The en-
tries in this department win not close
Hntil Tuesday night, and among the
schools yet to be represented are Hat
seld. Alder Springs, Hatton, Oak
Ridge and Shady Grove. The school
work covers the entire range OF school
activities from the simple drawings
and designs of the tots in the primary
department to the handiwork of the
girls In domestic science and the prod
acts of the boys in che mechanic arts.
Along with the things of a practical
nature are maps. compositions, arith-
metic problems and other specimens
Of school work.
The acorn is the trademark of the
acorn school. the name being worked
ont with acorns neatly strung, and the
entire exhibit being separated from
the others by strings of acorns. The
exhibit of this school has the widest
range of those now in place. but the
teachers of Hatfield promise to be con-
testants for this honor before the en-
tries are closed.
Thursday viii Be tire Big Day.
The big day for the Educational De-
partment will come on Thursday.
There will be parade of school chill
sren, an address by Governor Brough
and other features that will make for
the improvement OF educational condi-
fions in Polk county
Closely allied and exhibited in the
same room with school work in the dis
play of the members Of the Boys and
Girls clubs. The girls have on dis
play canned fruits, vegetables, pre-
serves and jellies prepared under the
direction of Miss Anna Woods, home
demonstration agent, and the high
class of this display idicates that the
girls of Polk county are going to be
even better housewives than their
mothers. The boys have on display
cotton, corn peanuts and sweet pota-
toes grown under the direction of Q. |
L. Henderson, farm demonstration |
agent. They, too, are demonstrating
Inc truth of the adage: IF the son is |
sot better farmer than the father
then both have failed.p