890 Rural School I-eaflet. 



Farm Boys' Club. The Farm Boys' Clubs this year will be under the 

 direction of Mr. M. P. Jones of the Extension Department. We hope 

 teachers, parents, grangers, and secretaries of the Y. M. C. A. will help 

 the boys to organize clubs that they may have the advantage of direction 

 in work and play from the State College. Mr. Jones is a man who will 

 be able to help our New York State boys to become more useful and 

 happy. Give them the opportunity to know him. Read his letter in the 

 Leaflet for Boys and Girls. Talk the matter over with the children. 

 Correspondence with a college man young enough to be in sympathy with 

 boys, yet old enough to direct their energies is well worth the while. 

 Address all communications relating to Farm Boys' Clubs to Mr. M. P. 

 Jones, College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y. 



; Something for Farm Girls. On the day before Thanksgiving the 

 teacher might make some suggestions that the girls could use in preparing 

 the table for the Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. It might be sug- 

 gested that they arrange place cards for the family, on the back 

 of which they could write verse or prose selections suitable for the 

 occasion. The preparation of the place cards would give some good 

 opportunities for careful penmanship. Some of the little wood plants 

 would furnish a brown or evergreen leaf that might be carefully pasted 

 on the cards as decoration. These could be prepared the day before 

 the holiday and would be attractive on the table. 



In connection with this matter the children might be taught to. utilize 

 many of the common out-of-door things for table decoration. I have 

 seen very good effects made with the climbing bitter sweet berries. 

 Small sprays of hemlock with the tiny brown cones are very attractive 

 on the table. 



Farm Girls' Club. It will take some time to get the Farm Girls' 

 Club organized and ready for definite work and entertaintilent. We 

 want to make it strong in both. We hope to have farm girls in New 

 York State working together for mutual benefit and pleasure. The 

 club is for girls who live in farm homes, not for those living in villages 

 or cities. 



Women of the Grange. The intercourse between the Farm Girls, 

 Club and the College of Agriculture should be continuous throughout 

 the year. Under the direction of the teacher it could not be continued 

 during the summer months. We, therefore, hope that in every farm 

 district in New York State some woman connected with the Grange will 

 be sufficiently interested in the girls in her district to act as patroness 

 of the club. We shall then be able through the patroness to send such 

 communications to the girls from time to time as we feel they ought to 



