The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1922-04-20
FARM WOMEN COMING INTO THEIR

editor OF The Herald, together with
Mrs. o. II. Cafky and Mrs. E. L. Flick
Ell. attended was County Co-Opera-
tion, {" or in other words. organization
Of farm women's clubs and co-opera-
ton in club work between town and
country women.
The only way this can be accomplish
ed consistently and thoroughly is
through home demonstration work and.
il Beaver county women are to have
all that is coming to them. this county
must have home demonstrator. What
the county agent is to the men and
boys. the home demonstrator is to the
women and girls, and more. This pa
per has advocated the employment Of
home demonstrator at different times
in the past and each time there has
been hearty response on the part Of
the people and, we understand, the
| present board Of county commissioners
favor such a move but funds are not
available at this time. The home dem
onstrator need is being realized and
expressed and. since coming events
cast their shadows before. /" from such
expressions we expect to see the de-
sire of our women folk for a demon
strator. realized. That the women Of
Beaver county are thinking along this
line is attested by the following note
from rural subscriber. who sends in
an article for publication. "You are
working for home demonstrator and
a lot Of US are with you. Mrs. New
som, home demonstrator, was a big
help in teaching US to use the pressure
cooker for canning meat. fruit, etc. J"
The following is the article submit
ted:
A Welcome Guest or Betty" Party
Have you Betty" in your home?
That is the question the farm women
are asking each other nowadays,
most anywhere in the United States.
Betty" is the homemade dress form
that takes all the worry out Of making
your own clothes. She is an exact du-
plicate of your own form and when you
fit waist on Betty" you know just
exactly how it is going to look on you.
Like everything else. Betty" is
not hard to manufacture If someone
does it who knows how, but no one can
do this for themselves. You should
have two people to handle the materials
as they make the form right on you
and they should know how to make
every motion count. for at the very
best and with the most skillful work.
ers, you will have to stand up and not
bend or twist for at least to q hours.
A beginner is apt to keep you standing
for much longer time than that.
The cost OF one of these forms is
very small. 1t takes a tight-fiting.
long high-necked gauze UNDER
vest and roll of the kind of gummed
paper that grocers use to fasten pack
ages. Some people are making them
of the cheap "oat meal wall paper,
Of which it takes less than roll. But
these have to be gummed and it takes
a much longer time to fasten them, so
they are not cheap if strength and
time are figured in.
The farm women's clubs of Oklaho-
ma are making many of these forms,
with the assistance of the county home
demonstration agents and the clothing
specialist of the extension department
of the A. & NJ. College. This special
ist has planned to give week this
year to every county having home
demonstration agent, for a clothing
school. at which one or two women
from every farm women's club will
take lessons in making dress forms and
in sewing, and they are to go back to
their clubs and teach the members what
they have learned. If you live in a
county which is not progressive enough
to have a home demonstration agent at
present, the best thing you can do is
to talk the matter over with your
neighbors and get them enthused. Then
go still further afield and get other |
women interested. Write a letter to
the county newspaper. Stir the mat
ter up every chance you get. This
clothing school and the dress forms are |
but feature of the thousand and one |
good things which will come to the |
farm women and the farm girls if they !
have county home demonstration
agent.
And while you are waiting for popu-
lar sentiment to grow strong enough |
to get this agent, write to Mrs. Dan
Diehl. clothing specialist. A. & M. Col
lege, and ask her il it will be possible
for her to visit your community if you
promise to get a group of your neigh
bors together.
After you have learned to make the |
forms it is great fun to have Betty !
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