The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-16

first place this year, but Edith l., Mason, state home demonstration agent leader, believes that other phases of homemaking should not be neglected, and they will not be overlooked in the Connecticut eX- tension program,
 Life goes on just the same" ob- serves Miss Mason, and home man. agement, home construction of clothing, keeping of home accounts and study of health rules are all the more important in the defense aco- nomy. With increasing food costs 1t will be impossible to get good nutri- ton, Miss Mason points out unless careful attention is paid to the buy ing program, and even though some rural families are earning more money now than they ever had in their lives, other families who get their entire living from the land will need to practice strice economy in their purchases. The cost of things that farm families buy goes up faster than the price of things they sell, and farm women this year may have les sto spend for clothing and household furnishing.
 Mrs, Marion Evans Dakin. exten- sion nutritionist, is the chairman of the Connecticut Nutrition De- fense Committee, and home demon- stration agents or homemaking club agents in the eight counties are serving as chairman of similar cotln- ty committees. County programs in nutrition will be carried on in CO., operation with numerous other agencies that are doing nutrition education work.
 Practical results in the nutrition work are already becoming apparent Home canning of fruits and vege- tables, which will improve the win- ter diets of many families, has in- creased greatly this year. A canning bulletin published by the Extension Service in the spring, in numbers expected to last two years, is near- ly out of print now after only three months, and a revised edition is be- ing prepared.
 To provide, in convenient form, the essential Information necessary for the housewife who is planning meals that are nutritionally bal- anced the Extension Service has prepared 6 Connecticut Kitchen Card that can hang on a hook over the party shelf and remind the cook several times 8 day of the require ments of e good food pattern for her familys meals. Fifty thousand of the Kitchen Cards are being distributed In the state.
 When the nutrition work began, one Of the first requests was for actual menus, worked out for q typical family, and containing the foods that would make up a well- rounded diet. Miss Helen Clark, Fairfield county home demonstra- ton agent, worked out a trial ser- ies of menus for all entire month. TheSe are being published now 'iis newspapers of Fairfield county, and will be offered to papers in other counties. Miss Helen Roberts, the home demonstration agent in Tol- land county, will prepare the menus for october. The menus use as many of the local surplus agricul- tural products as possible
 All county home demonstration agents met at the university this week for a training school on packed lunches, another aspect of the nutrition program. With many families having irregular meals, because of work on night shifts in defense plants, the agents consid- CT that information on packed lunches Is particularly important, The suggestions gained at Storrs will be passed along in later meet ings with women's groups, and will cover both the lunches that work men take to factories ard lunches that children take to school.
 Health work this fall is directed toward better posture, and Miss Lis- beth Macdonald, rural health spe- clallst, has worked out series of short programs. including actual ex- ercises for better posture. Women who may be meeting to discuss nu- triton, 10 work on clothing, or some other project, will give 10 min uteS of their time to the posture project.
 Clothing work this year is under a new specialist, Miss Katherine A. Tlngley, whose appointment to the staff succeeding Mss Ellen Van Cleef has just been announced. Miss Tingley will emphasize fitting and pattern adaptation in her fall program, in response to requeStS for this kind of work. It Is intended particularly for the woman who finds it impossible to use standard commercial patterns without altera- ton. There will also be consider able work this year on clothing ren- ovation.
 Miss Gladys stratton, home man. agement specialist, Is on leave of absence, but the home accounts which she has supervised for sev- eral years, will be kept as usual by women who participate in this program. The work will be super vised by the county demonstration agents, and the books will be sum. marized hy the staff at Storrs. Miss Mildred Smith, statiStician, makes