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Study-club meetings should be held frequently enough to keep up 

 interest in them; twice a month is usually considered sufficiently often. 

 Home clubs that began with only winter meetings are holding a monthly 

 meeting during the summer; thus, interest in the club is kept up. It is 

 suggested that each meeting be divided into two parts : the first hour may 

 be devoted to a study of the Cornell Lessons for the Farm Home ; the second 

 hour may be given to travel (page 186), study of music, literature, history, 

 or current topics. The meeting should be made formal enough to observe 



Fig. 52. — The social hour 



rules of order (page 231) and to secure strict attention to the program 

 until the time for the social hour.- 



While it is desirable that men and women work together on the farm 

 lessons, as well as on the farm home lessons, in some cases men and women 

 have met in the same building on the same evening but have separately 

 discussed the farm and the farm home; later in the same evening the two 

 meetings have come together, to enjoy a literary program. 



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Small gatherings often get along very well informally; but when more 

 or less vital questions are to be settled in either large or small meetings, 

 every one is happier if the meeting follows rulings based on adopted princi- 



