Broadening Horizons 



Through Home Bureau 



By Nell Flatt Goodman 



IX yc.us am), Ir.iiik |. K.ill.i! ol 

 Jersey (.ounly callcil liis diililren, 

 nine boys and one i;irl, lo^cfher 

 or a laniily council, linanics were not 

 (he subject he wished to consider. 



"Cliildrcn," lie said to them, I think 

 we need to see that Mother i;ets out 

 more often. What do you think.'" 



"Sure," agreed Sylvester, the next to 

 the oldest. "I've Ixcn tiiinkini^ too that 

 Mom docs st.iy at home too much. W'c 

 .ill ^o here and there and li.ivc our out 

 side interests. Mom spends too much 

 time lookini^ after us." 



"Do you mean she won't be here after 

 school when we come home? Why, 

 what woulil we do.'' cjucstioned wiiie- 

 eycd Robert, one of the yoimuer ones 

 still in grade school. 



"You can help me vsith 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 are 

 starting a unit of Home Bureau in this 

 county and I believe Mother would like 

 to belong. You have your -i-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- 



iiLulv it slie did join. I will be glad to 

 Like her anv lime I c.in. Woukl vou 

 all be w iliing to hcl|i.' ' 



A chorus ol assent was the .ln^\^e^ 

 trom the iluldren. 



'I could take her when vou were loo 

 busy ' asserted one. 



I'll try to have supper st.irle.j thuse 

 alternoons when she is au.iv.' said lu!i- 

 anne. 



1 II help Julianne, chimed in one 

 of the younger ones. 



And, so, it was a lucky day lor the 

 newly organizing Home Bureau group of 

 Jersey county when the Kallal family 

 liclil their council. Mrs. Kallal became 

 a charter member when the organization 

 took place. May 1 ">, l')31, and to this day 

 takes an active interest. She served as 



I do enjoy the meetings so much, " 

 Mrs. K.illal continued. JAcn if .some 

 of the m.iterial is ground I have already 

 (oveied, such as the training and feetling 

 ot small children. I am so hajipy for 

 others to have access to such training. If 

 I had hail the Home Bureau lessons long 

 ago. perhaps my children would have 

 had belter Icxtli. 



And. how do you think Mrs. Kallal 

 spent her time when she was at the Uni- 

 versity for I'arm and Home week? Most 

 of the sessions she attended were those 

 of the Youth conference! Tliat is liow 

 she responded to the cooix-ration and 

 consideration shown her by her own 

 youth at home. Her desire was to keep 

 up with anil understand the neeils and 

 ]iioblems of the growing generation. 



Now Mother Has Outside Interests, 

 Too, That Make Life Fuller and Richer 



\ice-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 miUlly says. That's why I 

 send the reports right after meetings. " 



Mr. Kallal, a memlx-r of Jersey county 

 I'arm 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. Before working in Home Bu- 

 reau, Mrs. Kallal had not been out of 



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FEEDLOTS ON THE KALLAL FARM 

 "Although fh« farm specialty is pure-bred Angus, each year several carloads of Herefords are shipped in for feeding." 





