The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-11-07
Cecil Council
Of Homemakers
Miss Mary 1. Barber To BE Guest
OF Group November is

Miss Mary /. Barber To BE Guest
OF Group November is
Miss Mary I. Barber, now Expert
Food Consultant to the Secretary of
War and previously director of
Home Economies Department of the
kellogg Co., Battle Creek, Michigan,
will be the guest speaker Of the
Homemaker's County Council to be
held at Elkton High School accord
ing to Miss Helen Irene Smith, Home
Demonstration Agent of the County,
on Saturday, November 16, at 1890
A. M.
Miss Mary Barber will be present
ed by Mrs. Otis McCauley, Cecil
County Council President, who will
preside at the all day meeting start
ing at 1890 A. M.
The first job that Miss Barber
ever held was that of Dietitian in a
hospital in Lancaster County, Pa.
Probably the thing she enjoyed most
was getting up at o'clock in the
morning to go to market to select
the fresh fruits and vegetables. Any
one who knows Lancaster County is
aware of the picturesqueness of
this market. The plain" people
from the country, many of the wom-
en- In bonnets and shawls, bring in
the very freshest vegetables and
flowers from their gardens. The
language used sounds strange to
ears unaccustomed to the Pennsyl-
vania Dutch expressions.
In connection with the work on
the New York City Food Aid Com
mittee organized in the last War,
Miss Barber was one of the Home
Economists who gave cooking dem
onstrations from truck. This was
really not much unlike the modified
kitchen of today excepting that an
oil stove was used. Many recipes
demonstrating the saving of sugar,
wheat, meat and butter were pre-
pared and when the climax arrived,
the truck rolled away.
Following the War, Miss Barber
accepted position as Instructor in
of Teachers College, Columbia Uni
versity, where she taught Demon
stration Cookery and Investigation
Cookery for sevral years. She never
goes any place now that she does
not meet former students.
Miss Barber organized the Home
Economics Department of the KEEL
log Company in Battle Creek, Mich
igan, and has been it's Director for a
long period of time. She and her
staff of Home Economists have per-
sonal contact with as many as 100,
600 women year. Her work has
always kept her in touch with feed
ing large groups of all kinds--in hos
pitfalls, children's homes, college DOR
mitories, G. G. C. Camps and the
Army.
1t was the last experience which
was responsible for her call to
Washington to assist with menus
for our Army. She is now Expert
Food Consultant to the Secretary
of War and is assigned to the Sub
sistence Branch Of the Quartermas-
ter Corps.
After the presidents greeting and
roll call of clubs the following
county reports will be given:
Nutrition, Mrs. Lloyd Balderston,
Colora; Clothing, Mrs. George Tor
bert. Aiken; Short Course. Mrs.
George Torbert, Aiken; Flower Gar
dening, Miss May Kimble, Liberty
Grove; Reading Chairman, Mrs.
John Owens, Charlestown; Commun-
ity Activities, Mrs. Maynard Fos-
ter, Calvert; Membership, Miss
Awilda Spence, Kenmore; Music,
Mrs. ]. B. Fassitt, Rising Sun;
Needlework Guild, Miss Ann Balder-
ston, Colora; Children's Aid, Mrs.
Iva Mckinney, Calvert; Resolution,
Mrs. James Boulder, Mrs. C. L.
Mackie, Lewisville.
The afternoon session will be
opened by several members from the
County Chorus followed by Miss
Barber who will tell us about her
work.
There will be a general exhibit of
home fun, homemade rugs, quilts,
fancy work, etc, under direction of
Mrs. Mary d. Baus.
Canned goods display for ribbon
grading will be sponsored by RMS.
Lloyd Balderston of Colora.
The flower arrangement exhibit
will be under the direction of Miss
May Kimble of Liberty Grove.
Red Cross exhibit by Miss Lor-
raine Fassitt of Rising Sun.
Needlework Guild by Miss Ann
Balderston.
These exhibits will be found in
rooms ON the second floor.
William Palmatory had his car