Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-05-09

Laytonsville Methodist women.
However, being a person with
strong win power tho editorial
comment, pleased Editors Note
= -, l happily licked my
fingers over the fried chicken
and strongly ignored the small
wee voice"
Otherwise my day with the
Homemakers was perfect from
the first moment when | was
taken in tow by my special host
ess, Mrs. Faye Hall Adams, who
gave me the royal treatment
with a grand tour of the exhibits
and found a seat for me at the
reserved table for lunch.
OF course Faye Adams as pres
ident of the Rural Womens
Short Course showed a slight
Partially for her groups exhibit
but with good reason. The dolls
illustrating the Short Course
programs in poultry raising,
clothing, flower arrangement,
foods and nutrition, family life
and relaxation, were dressed
down to the last painstalxing de-
tail by Mrs. Harry Cakes, who
knows how to appeal to "the lit
tie girls at heart"
The exhibit with all its fasci-
mating details such as the minia-
ture Vogue patterns and tiny-size
basket of eggs is now on display
at the Silver Spring public IL
brary. Take your daughter or
borrow one from a neighbor If
you need an excuse and go and
drool.
Another doll exhibit was the
work of the Glenmont Village
Homemakers who presented a
children's ward with measeley
doll and one on clutches to show
off their projects of bedside
catch-all bags and slippers made
from wash clothes.
Other eye-catchers were the
beauty in the home" exhibits
such as the Egyptian objects
dart display of Homewood III,
the flower arrangement, lamp
and screen by Four Corners Club
and the Travilah-Darnestown ex.
hibit loaned by the Netherlands
embassy.
! Upholsterlng in different stages
of construction was illustrated by
Mrs. Irma Bell, assistant home
demonstration agent, Mrs. Wilbur
Luhn, Browingsville, and Mrs
Mildred Bolton, Broadwood
Manor.
Chestnut Ridge Club displayed
its dolls for children's hospital;
the Home Demonstration office
showed how to put in Upper;
better breakfast hints were given
by the Derwood.Shady Grove and
Potomac Homemakers; and the
North Kensington Homemakers
demonstrated what goes into a
Civil Defense household aid kit
! Democracy begins at home was
the theme of the Olney Sunshine
Makers exhibit and the Laytons-
Vile Senior 4-Hers pointed out
the All road to greater happiness.
Vivacious Margaret GrZeskie.
wicz (this spells harder than II
sounds, Gres-kev-ich) revived us
after lunch with group singing
accompanied by Ray Lassone, on
an electric organ loaned by
Campbell Music Company.
/ lent my songsheet to County
Councllmen Wilbur Baughman
and Jerry Williams who were
sitting next to me. My greatest
contribution to group singing is
to move my lips without making
sound for this / don't need the
actual words.
The two councilmen however
had themselves time singing
with gusto "Grandfathers Clock
and She'll Be Comm Round The
Mountain"
Following an invocation by
Mrs. Charlton E. Myers, Hermit
age Homemakers Club, and a
welcome by President Mrs. Har-
rison King, We learned about
"Homemakers and Home Life in
the Netherlands from the charm.
ing and gracious Madam ]. II.
van RoHen, wife of the Neither
lands Ambassador.
Madam van Roijen enllvened
her introduction of an imaginary
Dutch couple, Mr.. and Mrs. John.
son Of Amsterdam, with her un-
derplayed sense of wit and solid
foundation of knowledge of her
country and people.
Her illustrated pattern Of day
In the life Of a Dutch couple was
not too different from our own.
Anyone experiencing a wet Wash
ington season for instance could
sympathiZe with the Dutch
housewife who has to cope with
200 rainy days out of the 1865.
Among the differences that hit
me the most was the fact that
there are three million bicycles
in Holland and nearly everyone