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necessity of a spirit of equal sharing, each giving and receiving 

 the mutual benefit of direct trade. 



The Missouri Home Makers' Conference cannot express too 

 deeply their appreciation to Mr. and Mrs. J. Ed. Hall of La- 

 monte, Mo., for the valued interest they are showing in our 

 Missouri girls by offering to the one wtio will most successfully 

 can six jars of vegetables, grown by herself (these to be judged 

 at the next annual conference), a prize valued at $10. Mrs. 

 Hall, our vice-president, has ever been a most loyal and helpful 

 co-worker. While no girls grace the Hall home, this generous 

 offer shows hearts tender for all girls and insures an equal 

 showing with the boys. 



We welcome with sincerity all to our conference family 

 and want you to feel at home at once and permanently; call 

 on us whenever we can be of service to you; tfell us of your 

 needs and we will do our best to meet them. With your help 

 we hope to make this coming year with our efforts win a per- 

 manent place in your lives and home circle. 



GREETINGS FROM MISSOURI FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S 



CLUBS. 



(Mrs. W. R. Chivvls. St. Louis.) 



Your State president wishes, at this opening session of your 

 1914 meeting, to extend to you her hearty good wishes for a 

 most enthusiastic and helpful conference. 



To her mind the work of this organization is of utmost 

 importance in the development of State resources, since you 

 consider, primarily, the direct problems of the home. 



The greatest problem of this day of problems is how 

 shall we reach the greatest efTiciency in the home at the least 

 expense and at the same time maintain a high standard of 

 living? This is distinctly a woman's problem. It includes 

 every phase of sanitation and home economics as well as child 

 welfare, and is so broad that we can never escape it but must 

 face and solve it. 



You will, therefore, readily understand why the club 

 women of our State look to your organization to lead in 

 thought and action toward the protection and perfection of 

 the home. As a result of its further efforts we hope to soon 

 see the study of domestic science a part of the program of every 



