MISSOURI HOME MAKERS' CONFERENCE. 



Proceedings of Third Annual Meeting Held Under Auspices State Board 



of Agriculture in the Agricultural College, Columbia, 



December 28, 29, 30 and 31, 1909. 



MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS. 



The Missouri Home Makers' Conference held its third annual ses- 

 sion at the University of Missouri, during the last week in December. 

 On account of the severe weather, the attendance was not as large as in 

 previous years, but the interest was undiminished. Enthusiastic audi- 

 ences, varying from 35 to 300 persons, greeted each speal^er. All papers 

 were thoroughly discussed. This interchange of ideas was one of the 

 most interesting and valuable features of the meeting. 



The program for the Conference had to do with the various aspects 

 of the home makers' life and interests. The subjects discussed may be 

 grouped under five general heads, namely : ' ' The Home, " " The Child, ' ' 

 ''Food," "Health" and "Education." It was felt that the influence 

 of the home maker must touch in a vital way all these interests, whether 

 directly her daily work or not, since the every day home work is not a 

 thing apart from the general life of the community, but each reacts to 

 the good or evil of the other. It was decided that the conference should 

 join with any and all organizations which have for their object the im- 

 provement of conditions in the homes of the State. Mrs. Harriett E. 

 Shepard, president of the State Federation of Women's Clubs, sent 

 greetings to the Conference, commending the work in which it is en- 

 gaged. "There is," said Mrs. Shepard, "no work in which the women 

 of our State should be more vitally interested than that which brings 

 together our representative home keepers; and there is no subject of 

 study so far reaching in its influence for direct results as that which has 

 to do with the daily comfort and convenience of those who occupy the 

 home; for the material needs of mankind are imperative, and everything 

 that helps to create a convenient, wholesome, refined and satisfying 

 basis for the physical life, lifts the human race to a higher plane, so 



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