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With The Home Bureau 



By NELL FLATT GOODMAN 



< (C^^N^ECAUSE it gives me the 

 ^^/v most practical information 

 J J about my daily work, I be- 

 long to Home Bureau" said Mrs. Paul 

 Krows of Douglas county. "In this 

 organization, we discuss things I can 

 convert and use every day." 



"We study some of the same mate- 

 rial in other groups to which I belong, 

 but in Home Bureau, I find the infor- 

 mation more detailed and more usable." 

 The capable, petite, young chairman 

 of the Atwood unit continued with her 

 direction of the luncheon being served 

 at the annual meeting of the Douglas- 

 Piatt organization. Unperturbed by the 

 confusion usually resulting at a meal 

 for something over 150, she noted the 

 needs of the tables as she talked. 



Mrs. Krows has been a member of 

 the county organization since its in- 

 auguration. As leader of her local unit, 

 she was awarded a prize during the day 

 for having completed the year in an 

 efficient manner. 



"I have found Home Bureau to be 

 an organization for all homemakers," 

 Mrs. Krows emphasized. "Whether 

 we live on a farm or in a small town or 

 elsewhere, we always may learn about 

 homemaking. With my two children, 

 a boy 8, and a girl 4, and my husband 

 a teacher of vocational agriculture in 

 the High School I have reason to want 

 to know more about eflFiciency in home- 

 making." 



"Perhaps the lesson on cake baking 

 helped me as much as anything in the 

 housekeeping line" she confessed. "Be- 

 fore that lesson, I never would take the 

 time to make a white cake. I always 

 thought I was too busy. From that 

 lesson, however, I have a good recipe, 

 jnstruction on how to do it, and now, 

 I can make a good white cake.* 



"And how often I have used the les- 

 sons on. entertaining for my family! 

 Did you know our group won a fifteen 

 dollar prize for a table, set for a chil- 

 dren's party.? We showed the proper 

 food to serve, appropriate decorations, 

 and had an attendant to explain it to 

 all visitors." 



It was time for the helpers to eat and 

 the conversation had to be continued 

 after things were all tidied up in the 

 kitchen. The luncheon was so delicious 

 we were enthusiastic in our praise. 



"You noticed, didn't you," she an- 

 swered, "we used the lesson on bal- 

 anced meals and menu planning? An- 

 other example that Home Bureau gives 

 us something we can use. 



"The sewing machine clinic was 



worth the price of a good overhauling 

 for my machine" she said in comment- 

 ing on other lines than food. "I rnak£ 

 many of the children's clothes. TOy 

 trouble was that when the sewing les- 

 sons were given, I didn't pay as much 

 attention as I would since I have a 

 little girl of my own! 



"Members of my group never do 

 stop talking about those lessons on 

 laundering. Women who always have 

 washed say they learned so much." 



Mrs. Krows graduated from the 

 Champaign High School and very soon 

 had a position in an oflFice. Perhaps 

 because of her office training she trys 

 to incorporate office efficiency in her 

 home work. 



"Many girls fresh from school or of- 

 fice find the need for homemaking 

 helps" she said. "I would recommend, 

 from my own experience the organiza- 

 tion of Home Bureau to them." 



Mrs. Krows takes an active part in 

 school and community affairs. She is a 

 member of the program planning com- 

 mittee of Douglas county, while her 

 husband is a member of the same com- 

 mittee for Piatt county. They believe, 

 talk, and practice co-operation. 



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•WHIPPED CREAM CAKE 



I cup thick sweet V2 c water 



cream 2 c pastry flour 



3 CRg whites 3 t baking powder 



iVi c sugar I t vanilla 



Sift dry inf^redients 3 times. Beat cream and 

 egK whites. Fold in dry ingredients alternately 



with water. Bake in layers, 325* to'^50* for 25 

 to 30 minutes. 



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lUMET 



Security Is Goal of 



Farm Bureau Women 



"World Peace" was the keynote of the 

 second annual convention of the Asso- 

 ciated Women of the American Farm 

 Bureau in Pasadena, Gilifornia, Decem- 

 ber 7 and 8. To accomplish world peace, 

 the result of domestic peace, emphasis 

 was placed on citizenship, service, and 

 health. 



Stressing citizenship. Miss Charl Or- 

 mond Williams, president, National Fed- 

 eration of Business and Professional 

 Women told the convention that we are 

 rapidly coming to realize that citizenship 

 is no empty possession but, that it is an 

 instrument with which we can protect our 

 homes, communities and nation. Sound 

 minds in sound bodies is the need of 

 democracy, she continued, and it is the 

 duty of farm women to use their citizen- 

 ship to advance this side of rural living. 



Mrs. Elsie Mies, delegate from Illinois, 

 described the good citizenship school held 

 in Springfield, August, 1936. 



MRS'. PAUL KROWS 

 "Now I can make a good white cake." 



In an eloquent plea for the conserva- 

 tion of educational resources, Dr. Rufus 

 von KleinSmid, president of the Univer- 

 sity of Southern California and former 

 DeKalb county. 111., farm boy, urged 

 adults to give youth an opportunity to 

 do the things for which they show an 

 aptitude. "Let even our secondary schools 

 become trade schools," he said. 



"Can't we cultivate a psychology that 

 it is honest to earn one's living?" Dr. 

 von KleinSmid asked. "Practically every 

 organized industry is now considered a 

 profession. Let us think of industry as 

 a life expression rather than a drudgery 

 experience." 



Women should have a part in making 

 their homes secure just as they did in the 

 past, Miss Juha O. Newton, chief, of 

 the Family Credit Section of the Farm 

 Credit Administration, pointed out. Farm 

 women have the right to know the 

 A.B.C.'s of credit because, as is too often 

 the case, the farmer's widow knows more 

 about his business than did his wife. 



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