784 Rural School Leaflet. 



Ask your teacher to organize your cIuIj in any way that she thinks 

 best, either formally or informally, and send your names to us. It 

 might be well for you to have officers through whom you can carry on 

 your business afifairs for there will be letters to send to the University, 

 questions to be asked, and the like. You will not want to bother your 

 teacher to carry on this correspondence. 



Beginning with the September issue of the Cornell Rural School 

 Leaflet, suggestions will be given each month for the Girls' Club. There 

 will be play as well as work. \We shall consider the following: 



I. Outdoors : 



1. Beautifying the home grounds ; the school grounds. 



2. Gardening. 



3. The common things near home ; the trees, birds, wayside blos- 

 soms, animal life, and the like. 



4. Helpfulness about the farm home. 



5. Games and how to play them. 



Every girl ought to be a good home-maker. Love of the out-of-doors 

 will help in this. If she would keep her mind wholesome and happy, 

 she must spend some part of every day, rain or shine, in the great out- 

 of-doors. The fresh air will help to give her red cheeks, bright eyes, and 

 cheerful smiles, and these things are important to good home-makers. 



II. Indoors: 



1. Cooking. 



2. Sewing. 



3. Helpfulness in the farm home. 



4. Care of your own room. 



5. Neatness. 



6. Some good books for girls to read. 



7. Something about pictures. 



8. Games for winter. 



9. Social life. 



Prizes will be given this year for work done in the Girls' Club. From 

 the following list of subjects, select one that interests you most, do some 

 work along the line suggested, and send us a full description of what you 

 have done. If your composition prove to be the best on this subject 

 we shall send you one dollar. You should tell the teacher in your school 

 district what subject you have chosen, and ask her to indorse the written 

 description that you send us. She will be willing, I am sure, to take an 

 interest in what you do, and perhaps make suggestions that will be 

 helpful to you. 



