With the Home Bureau 



It's a Confidence Builder, says Mrs. Randolph 



of Fulton County 



% By Nell Flatt Goodman 



COUNTIES forming new organiza- 

 tions in Home Bureau quite rea- 

 sonably want to know what good 

 may come of having such an organiza- 

 tion. Many women, therefore, will be 

 interested in what Mrs. Lucille Randolph, 

 one of the organizers and a charter 

 member of Fulton county Home Bureau 

 has to say. 



"Confidence," said Mrs. Randolph, "is 

 one of the greatest gains I count from 

 Home Bureau. Confidence in myself, 

 that I was doing my own line in the 

 most up to date manner; confidence in 

 trained leaders, if I needed help, to whom 

 I might turn; and confidence that these 

 leaders had a store of information from 

 which they might draw, if need be, with 

 the University of Illinois and the United 

 States Department of Agriculture back 

 of them. No other country can and no 

 other country does offer such support 

 to the home-maker as this organization 

 of which I am one." 



When Mrs. Randolph became the first 

 county chairman of Fulton county in 

 1922, she didn't realize to what extent 

 she might need that confidence. In 1928, 

 she was left a widow. Four children, two 

 girls and two boys, her home and several 

 hundred acres of land were her respon- 

 sibility. The fact that she was able to 

 retain her home, keep her children in 

 school and continue the management of 

 the farm is due, Mrs. Randolph thinks, to 

 the co-operation and assistance of her 

 local Farm and Home Bureau organiza- 

 tions. 



"It was absolutely necessary," Mrs. 

 Randolph went on, "for me to keep up 

 to.-date in matters of farm management. 

 I could not go to college with my son 

 but I could keep on my toes through the 

 Farm Advisor. With the help of the 

 Home Advisor for standards inside, and 

 the Farm Advisor fo,r outside, I was 

 most fortunate. I do not know what I 

 would have done without their help. 



"Where else would one go if not to our 

 own organization," asks Mrs. Randolph, 

 "for standards of buying, planning of 

 clothing, new ideas in health, for the 

 home, and all the rest? Standards of 

 Home Economics are so constantly 



changing, it behooves every woman to 

 keep up. Home Bureau is the impetus 

 which keeps our women abreast of the 

 times." 



Mrs. Randolph is proud and justly so 

 of the results of her efforts and her 

 family. 



"Four of my family" she said "are 



tion, and automatic water supply are 

 some of the conveniences. Each fam- 

 ily has the privacy of its own home. 

 Through this plan Mrs. Randolph doe* 

 not feel that she must move to town and 

 leave her home and farming interests. 



"I would miss my garden" Mrs. 

 Randolph said. "I like to plan and care 

 for it. My daughter-in-law raises the 

 chickens. She likes the animal life of tha 

 farm, especially the horses. She has her 

 own horse and rides a great deal." 



Shorthorn cattle, Shropshire sheep and 

 Poland China hogs are all raised on the 

 Randolph farm, and some of each are 

 kept for home consumption each year. 



One little hobby all her own has Mrs. 

 Randolph aside from her home and fam- 

 ily, and that is preserving family heir- 

 looms. A chest handed down from a 

 cousin of her great-grandmother, a for- 

 mer head of Vassar college, is a particu- 

 lar treasure, .\mong other articles in it 



THE HUSBANDS ARE JUST WINDOW DRESSING HERE 

 Left to right are Master Homemaken, Mrs. Farrar, Mrs. Hagerbai^er, Mrs. Lucille Randolph, 

 Mrs. Peverly, Mrs. Mast, Mrs. Chas. Mies, Mrs. Coi, Mrs. Eugene D. Funk and Mrs. Will RIegel. 



graduates of the University of Illinois. 

 Two sons-in law and one son and one 

 daughter." 



One son-in-law is Secretary-Treasurer 

 of the Fulton County Farm Loan Asso- 

 ciation in Canton. The youngest son has 

 been in school but during the summer 

 is assisting his brother on the farm. 



Housing problems have no terrors for 

 Mrs. Randolph. When her oldest son, 

 Jeptha was married, an unusual remodel- 

 ing plan was worked out with the help of 

 both the advisors. The spacious, roomy 

 house was made from one home to two 

 homes; an apartment house in the coun- 

 try one might call it. Now the young 

 Mr. and Mrs. Randolph occupy the up- 

 stairs and Mrs. Randolph has the down- 

 stairs. Electric stoves, electric refngera- 



are two pairs of silk stockings now more 

 than 75 years old. 



"Standards then were more in the 

 making than in the buying," commented 

 Mrs. Randolph. "Now, the more we buy 

 for the home, the more we must know." 



Among the activities of Mrs. Randolph 

 is the County Program Planning com- 

 mittee. She is interested, too, in the 

 rural electrification project, and believes 

 that women can help on that line. She 

 belongs to Chapter BZ. P. E. O. sister- 

 hood and is a Master Home maker. 



"Anything which touches the home is 

 of interest to the women," declares Mrs. 

 Randolph, "so why shouldn't they be in- 

 terested in the one organization based 

 solely on the welfare of the hompmaker 

 and her home?" 



AUGUST. 1936 



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