4o6 Reading-Course for Farmers' Wives. 



FARMERS' WIVES' CLUBS. 



The Reading-Course for Farmers' Wives is first for the individual 

 reader, second for the company of readers gathered together for mutual 

 help and suggestion in the form of Farmers' Wives' Clubs. These clubs 

 we wish to report to some extent in this leaflet. 



The Auld Lang Syne Reading Club is one of uncommon interest. 

 Near the village of Williamsville on the road from Buffalo to that village 

 is a brick school house not far from the trolley line. It replaced the 

 building known as the old red school house where a woman for several 

 years taught the boys and girls of that country neighborhood not only 

 the usual subjects found in the school program but many other things 

 which rare and good teachers give to the young people entrusted to their 

 care. These pupils grew up to manhood and womanhood and many of 

 them settled on farms in that locality; others have become residents of 

 the city of Buffalo, and still others have moved farther away. 



Believing that the years spent in the school room are not all one's 

 education, this teacher, after others had taken up the school room work, 

 became the leader in thought and study among her friends and neighbors 

 who as children had been her pupils, with now many gray heads in their 

 membership. The club has been organized to pursue reading and study 

 at home with the same leader that they had in their childhood days. 

 Regularly once a month a meeting is held, with a program full of interest 

 and enthusiasm, with part of the work suggested by the Cornell Reading- 

 Course. The Supervisor of the Reading-Course for Farmers' Wives 

 had the pleasure of visiting the club last summer, listening to an enter- 

 taining program, engaging with the members in a delightful social hour, 

 and a repast brought and prepared by the members. Before the close 

 of the meeting the members passed around the room shaking hands with 

 each other, and singing : 



" So here's a hand my trusty friend, 

 And give a hand of thine; 

 We'll pledge a life-long friendship 

 For the days of auld lang syne." 



Following is the formal program of this club: 



