With the Home Bureau 



It's a Confidence Builder, says Mrs. Randolph 



of Fulton County 



A Itv Nell Flatt C;<Mi(<man 



COUNTIES forniinK new orjraiiiza- 

 tions in Home Bureau quite rea- 

 sonably want to know what jrood 

 may come of having such an orsraniza- 

 tion. Many women, therefore, will be 

 interested in what Mrs. Lucille Kandolph. 

 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: ci>nfi(l<'nce 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 I'nited 

 .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 orjranization 

 of which I am one." 



When Mrs. Randolph liecanie the first 

 county chairman of Fulton county in 

 li»22, she didn't realize to what extent 

 she might need that confidence. In 192S.' 

 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 ami 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 

 hut I coulii keep on my toes through the 

 Farm .Advisot. With the help tof the 

 Home .Advisor for standards inside, and 

 the Farm .Advisor for outside, I was 

 most fortunate. I do not know what I 

 would have done without their help. 



"Where else wimld 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 constartlv 



changitig. it behooves every W(>man to 

 keep up. Home Bureau is the impetus 

 which keep-i our women abreast of the 

 times." , 



Mrs. Randolph is proud and justly so 

 of the results of her effort > and her 

 family. 



"Four of mv f;inidv" she -an! "are 



tioii. anil automatic water supply are 

 <ome of the conveniences. Each fam- 

 ily has the privacy of its own home. 

 Through this plan Mrs. Randolph does 

 not feel that she must tnove to town and 

 leave her home and farming interests. 



"I would miss my garden" .Mrs. 

 Randolph sai<l. "I like to plan and care 

 for it. My daughter-in-law raises the 

 chickens. .<he likes the animal life of the 

 farm, especially the horses. She has her 

 own horse and rides a great deal." 



.*^horthorn cattle. Shropshire sheep and 

 Poland China hogs are all raised on the 

 Randolph farm, and .shme of each are 

 kept for home consumption each year. 



One little bobby all her own has Mrs. 

 Randolph aside from her home and fam- 

 ily, and that is preserving family heir- 

 loom<. ^\ chest handed down from a 

 cousin of her great-grandmother, a for- 

 mer head of Vassar college, is a particu- 

 lar trea>iui Among other articles in it 



THE HUSBANDS ARE JUST WINDOW DRESSING HERE 



Farrar Mrs. Hagerbanner. Mrs. Lucille Randolph. 

 CoK. Mrs. Eugene D. Funk and Mn. Will Riegel 



Left to right are Master Homemakers, Mrs 

 Mrs. Peverly. Mrs. Mast, Mrs. Chas. Mies, Mrs, 



graduates of the University of Illinois. 



Two sons-in law and one son and one 

 daughter." 



<lne son-in-law is Secretary-Treasurer 

 of the Fulton County Farm Loan Asso- 

 ciation in Canton. The youngest son has 

 been ill school but durmg the summer 

 is assisting his brother on the farm. 



Housing problems have no terrors for 

 Mrs. Randolph. When her oldest son. 

 .leptha was married, an unu>ual remodel- 

 ing plan wa> worked out with the help of 

 both the advisors. The spacious, roomy 

 bouse 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 refrigera- 



are two pairs of silk stockings now more 

 than T-T years old. 



"Standard> then were more \v. the 

 making than in the buying." commented 

 Mrs. Randolph. "Now, the more we buy 

 for the home, the more we must know." 



.Among thi- activities of Mrs. Randolph 

 IS the County Program Planning com- 

 niittee. She Is interested, too. in the 

 rural electrification project, and believes 

 that women can help on that line. She 

 heloni-s to Chapter B/. I'. E. <). sister- 

 hood and is a Master Home maker. 



".Anything which touches tht 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 hom'-maker 

 .".nd her home','" 



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