Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-01-20
Home Demonstration News

young children help in the selection
and the making of self-help garments.
Any mother of child, age one to
nine years, may sign up for this
s course She must write or phone the
Home Demonstration Agent, Rock
vile 800, Extension %, and tell Miss
Turner that she wishes to join.
i The meeting places have not been
definitely settled as yet One school
of two days duration will be held
February / and 3, either at Miss
Turner's Office in Rockville, or at
Damascus, depending upon the en-
<rollment. 1t is thought that the Sec
ond school might be held in the Coles
vile area on February 2 and 4. If you
are interested in learning to sew for
your children, to make garments that
are easy to construct and to iron and
yet have style, you should inquire into
this opportunity. 1t is necessary to en-
roll at once as the Agent wishes to
visit all who sign up for the course to
discuss patterns, suitable materials
and designs. You may want help on
sleeping garments and clothes for in
fants; rompers for creeping babies;
suits or dresses for the run about"
or good styles to use on the growing
girl of eight to ten.
Miss Helen Shelby, Clothing Spec
ialist from the University of Mary
land and Miss Edythe Turner, Home
Demonstration Agent, will have
charge of these schools.
The Council of Homemakers Clubs
and the University of Maryland Ex-
tension Service are holding a special
meeting on January 81 for the train
ing of officers of the homemaksts club
and Senior All Council in Parliamen-
tary Procedure. Mrs. Agnes Giles
Newman, Parliamentarian for the
Haskin Service of the Washington
Star, will conduct the school. Miss We
mia M. Kellar, Assistant Director of
the University of Maryland Extension
Service will be a guest at this meet
ing.
The meeting is open to any club Of
ificer in the county who wishes to avail
herself of this training.
The meeting will be held in the Of
flee of the Home Demonstration Ag-
ient, Miss Edythe Turner, from 10 A.
M. until a P. M, January 81.
January marks forward step in
the program of the homemakers clubs
of Montgomery County. The eighteen
clubs met this month under the guild
ance of clothing project demonstra-
tor. In November at a special school,
eighteen homemakers came to the
Home Demonstration Agents office
where they were trained under the
guidance Of Miss Helen Shelby, Cloth
ing Specialist of the University of
Maryland and Miss Turner, in the
matter of better care of clothing.
Homemade equipment needed to Sc
cure results in pressing and construc-
ton Of clothing was made. How to use
the equipment to advantage was dem
onstrated. These homemakers are pre-
senting the information to their own
clubs during January.
The Home Demonstration Agent
will use the time she usually spends
with these clubs to make contacts
with homemakers she mas not had
time to reach before. She will carry
on the All work in rural areas for
merly carried by the Assistant Home
Demonstration Agent, and hold spec
iai schools for older All girls in plan
ning for clothing needs. Several re-
quests for help on Encouragement of
kitchens and living rooms will be
cared for.
The demand upon the Home Demon
stration Agent has grown tremendous
ly and only through the cooperation of
the eighteen active .homemakers clubs
will it be possible for the Agent to
contact more people.
The program for 1888 in these
groups is continuation of the Bet
ter Family Living Program they have
been studying the past two years.
This year the stress will be on clothing
the family satisfactorily at low cost.
AT the regular club meetings the dis
cussion will deal with care of clothing,
in January.
! AS shoes and stockings are major
items in the family clothing budget,
at study of wearing quality of shoes
at various price levels will be made.
Factors to consider in buying hose for