The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-02-17
MADAME DEVOUCE
LIKES FLORIDA
Represents French Government Here
in Interests of Home Economic
Work

MdudTne l.. DeNOuSe III IiSI CIldI III
ing, broken English and delightful ac-
cent says. NO, please do not limit my
stay in F1orida-somewhere else but
not here-I like it So" Piloted over
the state by Miss Sarah Partridge,
state home demonstration agent, Mad
anne Devouge expresses herself as be-
ing delighted with the various phrases
of home demonstration work so we'll
developed in Florida and feels that
her time in the state Is being well
spent.
Madame Devouge has been sent to
the United States by the French gov
eminent for the purpose of studying
the methods of development of home
demonstration work throughout the
rural districts with a view to develop
ing the work in France, similarity. She
is director of home economies in the
National School of France, located at
Paris,
She has spent the past ten days in
Florida. and yesterday visited Santa
Rosa and Escambia counties with Miss
Partridge and Mrs. Goldie McEwen
and Miss Margaret Cobb. respective
county home demonstration agents.
She visited one of the clubs at Fer
ry Pass yesterday with Miss Partridge
and Miss Cobb and observed the boys
and girls in their club work and also
their conducting of a club meeting.
She seemed particularly pleased with
the work of the club and it's range of
development.
With Miss Partridge she has visited
in Tampa where she attended the
Tampa Fair and was intensely inter
ested i'm the kinds and forms of ex-
hibits in st. Johns county, Putnam
county, Dade and BroWard counties.
In each she was delighted with the
different kinds of work and with the
exhibitions given. Madame Devouge
seemed particularly interested in
watching the girls in their practical
club work. Much of the territory from
county to county was covered by au-
tomobile.
From Daytona she came to Tallahas-
see where she was entertained as a
guest at the practice house of the
Florida State College for Women,
headquarters of the state home demonv
stration work.
During her stay in Florida Madame
Devouge has picked her first orange;
her first grapefruit and has made her
first address in English-when she
gave short talk at a meeting of the
Womans Club in Miami.
Her visit to the United States is the
result of work in France during the
past two summers. of workers from
the Southern Home Demonstration Of
flee, u. S. Department Of Agriculture.
During the two summers about six
workers went to France, two of these
from Louisiana and the subsequent
interest of the French commissioner
of agriculture and his government in
the possibilities of the work for France
resulted in the government sending a
representative to America TO study the
work here.
Madame Devouge landed in New
York City about the middle of jan
uary and expects to return to her
country in April.
Before leaving she will visit Louis
lana. Texas, Arizona, California, Utah,
Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Ohio and New
York state. She has already visited
in West Virginia, and a number of 9TH
err eastern and southern states.
In rehabilitating the war devastated
regions of France the government
feels that the proper development of
home economics work will be a great
aid and it is expected to gradually
reach the highest development of the
work in the country At present in
the interests of food conservation,
stress will be laid on the canning part
of the home economies work, home
sanitation and the introduction of
household cOnveniences in the homes.
FrenChwomen, expert in making fine
preserves do not understand the prac-
teal canning of fruits and vegetables
as do the rural women of America. 1t
is an interesting fact, Miss Partridge,
state agent, observed in speaking of
the canning work yesterday, that the
present methods employed, of canning
by sterilization, was discovered by APP
pert French scientist who worked
peal made by Napoleon for some way
to preserve food as an after war re-
lief.
Madame Devouge is keeniy OBJ
servant and eager and will return to
her country with much valuable ma
terial and many practical ideas for the
development of home economics work
in her country.
She spent yesterday afternoon in
Milton returning to Pensacola last
night. She leaves the city this morn
ing for Mobile for a short stop over
and from there will go TO New Or
leans where she will be met by Miss
BodereauX. a Louisiana county home
demonstration agent. one of the work
ers sent to France in the interests of
home demonstration work.