The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-15
HOME DEMONSTRATION DEPT
Kansas Women Find Many Prac-
teal Displays at Free Fair
Many Labor Saving Devices.

There is no more interesting group
of exhibits at the fair this year than
that of the home demonstration de-
partment. at least to a farmers WIFE
There she can find those labor saving
devices that she has needed for-so
long, in miniature, and when she sees
exactly what she wants, she will prob
ably soon have her husband per-
suaded OF their necessity.
She may find some practical home
made dresses Of very good style that
she can copy at little expense. She
will notice the food budgets and come
to the conclusion that perhaps the
reason that Bud and Nancy look SO
sort of peaked and puny is that they
haven't been getting the right kind
Of food.
There is always good crowd
around the exhibits, particularly that
shaped case in which a revolving
platform has been divided into COM
partments, and in each compartment
stands g. doll dressed in the exact
copies of a dress and hat Of some
member of the Pratt home demon
stration department. These costumes
were made by the women who own
the originals, which they also made.
The Shawnee county exhibit has at
tracted much attention. 1t. shows
what $500 can do to a kitchen, when
that kitchen is nothing but single
of any kind. At one side stands q
model of the kitchen before it is inn
proved, consisting Of four walls, a. win
dow or two, and a door. Such a
kitchen has been found often in Shaw
nee county, Mrs. Julia Kiene, home
demonstration agent for the county.
asserted.
Beside it stands the kitchen after
$500 is spent in remodeling it. 1t
has been made into two rooms, one
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men can remove their dirty boots and
wash up before coming in after work.
There is an overall closet and a broom
closet opening on the porch.
Indoors there are cupboards built
all along one wall, a sink and-e drain
board. There is a built-in refrigera-
tor, a built-in woodbox, a built-in
ironing board, everything to make the
room as convenient and comfortable
as possible.
Child's Health Store, which illustrates
what a child should have in drugs,
furniture, toys and groceries. In the
tiny room devoted to drugs are bottles
of orange juice, spinach, prunes, ETC..
NATURES remedies, which are all that
is necessary to keep child well.
The grocery store shows the kind
of food a child should eat. the other
departments the toys and furniture
with which a child's room should be
furnished.
A food budget has also been ar
ranged, showing what fruits and vege-
tables should be had during the win
ter and how they should be preserved,
some in caves, some dried, some
canned. Fresh fruit is also on the
budget.
A food calendar has been interest
ingiy worked out to give a list of bal
anced meals. The names of foods in
the five different classes that go to
make up balanced meals have been
listed on great white bulletin. OPP
posite them are little electric lights,
in three rows, each row representing
a meal OF the day. When a light is on
opposite any food, that is suggestion
that that food be used for the meal
which the light represents.
There are a number of exhibits of
the extension department of K. S. A.
c. in dressmaking and millinery. The
dresses and hats were made under the
direction of supervisors sent out by
the department and not especially in
the home demonstration department.
Mrs. Julia Kiene is in charge of the
department.