Broadening Horizons 



Through Home Bureau 



By Nell Flott Goodman 



IX years ago, Frank J. Kallal of 

 Jersey county called his children, 

 nine boys and one girl, together 

 for a family council. Finances were not 

 the subject he wished to consider. 



"Children," he said to them, "I think 

 we need to see that Mother gets out 

 more often. What do you think.'" 



"Sure," agreed Sylvester, the next to 

 the oldest. "I've been thinking too that 

 Mom does stay at home too much. We 

 all go here and there and have our out- 

 side interests. Mom spends too much 

 time looking after us." 



"Do you mean she won't be here after 

 school when we come home? Why, 

 what would we do.'" questioned wide- 

 eyed Robert, one of the younger ones 

 still in grade school. 



"You can help me with the chores," 

 declared Theodore, just out of High 

 School. "You want Mom to have a good 

 time, don't you.'" 



"Oh sure, sure, I guess we can manage. 

 Where is she going to go?" the youngster 

 responded valiantly. 



Mr. Kallal went on to explain his 

 plan. 



"Now, I've been thinking, they arc 

 starting a unit of Home Bureau in this 

 county and I believe Mother would like 

 to belong. You have your 4-H activities, 

 I have Farm Bureau so why shouldn't 

 Mother have Home Bureau? The prob- 

 lem would be for us to provide a means 

 for her to get places. You know Mother 

 would want to attend the meetings reg- 



ularly if she did join. I will be glad to 

 take her any time I can. Would you 

 all be willing to help?" 



A chorus of assent was the answer 

 from the children. 



"I could take her when you were too 

 busy" asserted one. 



"I'll try to have supper started those 

 afternoons when she is away," said Juli- 

 anne. 



"I'll help Julianne," chimed in one 

 of the younger ones. 



And, so, it was a lucky day for the 

 newly organizing Home Bureau group of 

 Jersey county when the Kallal family 

 held their council. Mrs. Kallal became 

 a charter member when the organization 

 took place, May 15, 1931, and to this day 

 takes an active interest. She served as 



"I do enjoy the meetings so much," 

 Mrs. Kallal continued. "Even if some 

 of the material is ground I haTe already 

 covered, such as the training and feeding 

 of small children, I am so happy for 

 others to have access to such training. If 

 I had had the Home Bureau lessons long 

 ago, perhaps my children would have 

 had better teeth. " 



And, how do you think Mrs. Kallal 

 spent her time when she was at the Uni- 

 versity for Farm and Home week ? Most 

 of the sessions she attended were those 

 of the Youth conference! That is how 

 she responded to the co-of)cration and 

 consideration shown her by her own 

 youth at home. Her desire was to keep 

 up with and understand the needs and 

 problems of the growing generation. 



Now Mother Has Outside Interests, 

 Too, That Make Life Fuller and Richer 



vice-chairman for three years, and also 

 as recreation chairman for the county. 

 True to their word, the family have pro- 

 vided a way for her to attend regularly 

 and seldom does she miss a meeting. 



"I can depend upon Mrs. Kallal to 

 have her reports in on time," declared 

 Mrs. Clarence Sunderland, district direc- 

 tor. "Without fail her reports come in 

 the day following. She is never late." 



"I don't want to forget about it," 

 Mrs. Kallal mildly says. "That's why I 

 send the reports right after meetings." 



Mr. Kallal, a member of Jersey county 

 Farm Bureau since its organization in 

 1918, and a very busy man with his 

 Purebred Angus stock farm, takes Mrs. 

 Kallal, now membership chairman of her 

 unit, on membership drives, and contacts 

 the husbands at the same time. Only 

 lately they secured three new members 

 for their unit, the members of which 

 thought they couldn't get a single new 

 member. Elefore working in Home Bu- 

 reau, Mrs. Kallal had not been out of 



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FEEDLOTS ON THE KALLAL FARM 

 "AMiough th« farm ip*e!alfy is pure-bred Angus, each year several carloads of Herefords are shipped !n for feeding.' 



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