Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-10-23
1900 COMMUNITIES
ARE ALREADY ENROLLED
Membership Holds More Than
100000 Women From Maine
to California.
SANITATION is ONE OF AIMS
Agricultural Institutions of Various
states Cooperating With the
United states Department of AErl-
culture In the Great Work.
IS ONE OF AIMS
Isy Archer Wall DoaxIn..

We are largely unconscious OF the
silent and unheralded change that is
going on In that vital mntter, tho
horne life on the farm. II is tho story
that the Department Of Agriculture
and the State agricultural colleges
arc telling In unison to the women
and children upon the countryside
after the fashion or the college prcsl-
dent who said that his business was
not TO teach people how To make {,
living. but how to live.
The plan already has moro than
5000 communities enrolled all the
way from Maine to California and II
seeks to make the farm a place worth
living on, just az the farmcrs's CO.
operative socictics exist that the
farmer NAV make living on hin
farm. Women. of course, form the
greater part OF the membership. more
than 100000 of them, led b. their
own people who are a part OF them
and speak to them in q language they
can understand. No imported spell
tindcrs' with "a message" but those
OF their household. whether they hail
from the government or the state or
their own neighborhood.
They are the real missionaries. and
ali with one purpose, that of max In <
the farm IN attractive and livabin
place where the women folks" shall
have sometimes other duties than
"toting" water and cooking endless
dinners for hired hands with un-
fathomablc appctites.
OF course, clothes hold the lead,
and in many. many thousands Of farm
homes women make all their own
clothes and those Of the children.
They are being taught TO like II and
not to feel toward II az did the poor
creature In Tom Hoods Song Of the
Shirt" For they not only make them
but design them. creations OF their
own brain. and do IL with n Joy that
mere man can never understand.
Moreover. they design. trim and make
their own hats and II must lie re-
with women are not hcadgear. hut
things OF ornament. SO successful
arc they tina, In their communities
by their hats shall we know them.
Sanitation plays great part In
this community work. and always Al
the suggestion of the woman who In
the way OF cleanliness displays much
more propinGui,y In sodliness than
does the lord Of creation. There Is
cooking, OF course. New lator-sav-
Ing devices In the Kitchen. demon
strate that cooking is essentially a
fine art. requiring both skill and in
,tclligcnce.
Beyond all Is the story of how 10
take care OF children after an intclli-
gent and orderly fashion. not trust
Ing TO that scntimentaiity that be-
cause most women have mothers
heart they necessarily know how To
raise their babies. So many of the
tragedies OF life are stifled in the be-
ginning by wholesome food and
clothing, by the processes OF proven
ton OF disease ami accident. and by
the incubation OF care and fore
thought in the raising of tho little
future citizens of our country.
Such is the little army that Is
building farm life upon the country
side upon the elemental rocks of in
;elliGencc and common sense, az tho
foundation of that phase Of our ma
tiondl life upon which depends the
welfare OF us all
Copyright. 1921, Public Ledger Coz