Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-01-20
ROME DEMONSTRATION WORK
HAS GREAT POSSIBILITIES.

Miss Bcss Edwards Of College Station
was The guest Of Claude friends yos.er.
day Miss Edwards IS no DiTrict
Home Demonstration Agent FOR the
Panhandle Plains district Her mission
at Claude was the stimulation Of inter.
IS, In the Home Demonstration work
throughout the Panhandle Last year
IN" Panhandle division II which Miss
Edwards il the highest official led the
entire State In the quality Il work that
was done by the Girls clubs There
L. mistaken idea of the Home Demon.
sttation work afloat IN our country 10.
diN that Is acting as a stumbling block
Ia the initiation Of the work In several
counties Many citizens d. not realize
the extent Of the growth Of this work.
When Il was originated some ten years
ago In North Carolina the plan then
included only the canning Of such prod
ucts as were raised on the farm. Natur
ally the name ~ the clubs became the
canning clubs
Hut today the Home Demonstration
worl, has grown tn mean everything
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clubs are classified In three divisions.
Canning Clubs, Poultry Clubs and Home
Improvement Clubs. The work Is divid.
III into four years and Is 50 arranged
that any girl or woman may take a
iour.year course IN her home and on
the farm almost the same az In the
college. the difference being in favor
al the home course. Here the mother
and daughter work side by side in the
same laboratory which Is their kitchen.
their poultry yard, their garden. their
yard or any part Of the home.
The conditions In this school are
these, AM girl aud every airl In a can.
ming club must have q garden and pro.
ducc "pmcthing. Every girl that be
Longs "a q poultry club must produce
poultry Every girl that belongs 10 a
Honr Improvement club must raise
some flowers CO. che must clean up one
room preferably her own room ii she
has one. and make u over II IL needs IL
She must learn to make her own clothes
and io make over her old clothes She
II taught boy this one county teacher.
the HON. demonstrated how % produce
the things that she can market 90 give
her her own money with which 10 buy
her clothes She IN taught how tu make
over old furniture and change Il from
q worthless tumhlcddowu table or chair
Ia beautiful piece u furniture for her
room without the expense ~ buying
something She Is laugh, tn make over
her hats. and a. make the Childrcn's
hats In the home. Not only the girls
are taught this bu, the mothers IN the
homes are taught al these useful and
economical lessons. she is taught the
balanced ratious for the family meals.
and how o. raise the menu and how TO
prepare a.
In Dunlev County, the County Com.
missiuncrs were never asked hut once
tu make an appropriation FOR the home
demonstration work Mrs Ida Chit.
wood was sent to Dunlcy County for her
field oi service Last year the hats and
the made over garments made by the
members u Mrs Chitwood's clubs saved
more money n the homes ~ Dunlcy
County than her salary amounted 10.
al the work done IN the poultry. gar
den and home, cost them nothing
Every county that refuses to intro
duce this work into their homes fur
the benefit of al the people are simply
paying the hill Tor the counties who
do accept q and are losing its grca, ad
vanngcs when every county lists The
services of home demonstration. then
they will get their taxes hack for the
welfare and advancement II that cnun
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