Homemakers Confer at Urbana 



By IVell Flatt Goodman 



Addresses and discussions on the art 

 of living featured the program for 

 women during Farm and Home Week 

 at the Universit7 of Illinois January 

 9 to 13. 



Speakers emphasized that more gra- 

 cious living promotes better living. 

 Talks were made on exhibits shown on 

 health, personality and clothes, effec- 

 tive homemaking, home furnishings, 

 and leisure time activities. 



"The mechanics of housekeeping 

 must not become so complicated that 

 the human values of homemaking are 

 lost," Miss Margaret Goodyear, of the 

 Home Economics staff said. 



Emphasis was placed on reading and 

 recreation for various ages each eve- 

 ning. Anticipation of such social hours 

 is not only a pleasant mental stimula- 

 tion but helps to keep close family re- 

 lationships. 



"And sing," says Mrs. Spencer Ew- 



ing, state recreation chairman for Home 

 Bureau. "Sing, even if everybody is 

 off key ! Singing helps to ease the ten- 

 sion of modern life." 



Trouping from problems in rural 

 education to happier parties for any 

 hostess, the homemakers saw Miss Doris 

 Lee and Miss Dorothy Jensen, food 

 consultants, demonstrate that the buffet 

 service is the way to easy and pleasant 

 entertaining. 



"Something big is happening in 

 America," Mrs. J. V. Stevenson, Streat- 

 or, past president of Home Bureau, 

 pointed out at the annual Farm and 

 Home Week banquet. "America is trad- 

 ing new lamps for old. A long look 

 reveals that there was a time, for in- 

 stance, when only the favored few had 

 the conveniences and comforts which 

 are now taken for granted by more and 

 more of our people." Illinois home- 

 makers are thinking in terms of more 

 gracious living. 



Women Plan Trip 



To London 



Eleven Illinois women were listed as 

 "certain to go" to the 1939 Triennial 

 Conference of the Associated Country- 

 women of the World opening May 30 

 in London, according to Mrs. L. J. 

 Killey, Monmouth, chairman of ar- 

 rangements for Illinois. 



Those planning to go are: Mrs. Ira 

 Judd, Aurora; Mrs. Elmer Herman, 

 Stockton ; Miss Anna Bines, Mon- 

 mouth; Miss Margaret Lee Bines, Can- 

 ton; Mrs. John Morris, Eden; Miss 

 Clareta Walker, Carlinville; and Mrs. 

 Spencer Ewing, Bloomington. 



Mrs. R. E. Milligan, Ivesdale, newly 

 appointed music chairman of Illinois 

 Home Bureau, now on a world cruise, 

 plans to reach England some time in 

 April and will remain there for the 

 conference. 



Early reservation is recommended 

 and is essential to get the better steam- 

 er accommodations on the Queen Mary. 

 The delegates will be guests of honor 

 at the New York World's Fair on 

 Rural Women's Day, May 23. 



Don't overlook the "living side" as 

 you go along. You may forget what 

 the whole game is about. 



C D. McCoy, Atherton, Missouri, recently 

 tried to buy a new buggy, say the Associated 

 Press. After some search, a buggy maker 

 was located in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. The 

 price was $100 and McCoy's old buggy. 



BACHELORS KNUDSON AND JOHNSON 



"They Had a Good Time 

 At Farm and Home Week*' 



Russell O. Knudson, Kendall county, and 

 his neighbor, Carl Johnson, Grundy county, 

 drove 100 miles to attend Farm and Home 

 Week. They started at 6 AM Tuesday, Jan. 

 10, after Russell had milked his one cow, 

 and arrived in Champaign for breakfast. 



Both are bachelors. Russell operates a 

 large grain farm and lives with his brother 

 and sister-in-law on the place. He has not 

 missed Farm and Home Week since he 

 graduated from ag college in 1933. Of 

 greatest interest to him were sessions on 

 soils, farm management and economics. 



Carl attended the short course for the 

 first time this year. He farms with his 

 father and lives at home. As a grain farm- 

 er he, too, went to soils and management 

 classes. During the next year or two he 

 plans to buy equipment and rent a farm. 



They paid 75 cents a night for a com- 

 fortable room at 313 W. Green street. 

 Evenings were spent in meeting friends. 



Have You Any Old Books 

 By These Authors? 



If you own first editions of any of 

 the authors listed below, communicate 

 at once with Gustav Davidson, Rare 

 Book Room, Library of Congress, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Mr. Davidson is preparing a bibliog- 

 raphy of the more important series' 

 writers of American juveniles of the 

 latter half of the 19th Century, and 

 will welcome your interest and co-oper- 

 ation in helping him build, for the na- 

 tional library, as complete a collection 

 as possible. 



Here are the authors: 

 Jacob Abbott 



Louisa May Alcott i 



Horatio Alger, Jr. 

 T. S. Arthur ; 



Capt. Ralph Bonehill 

 Harry Castlemon ' 



O. Augusta Cheney 

 Paul Creyton 

 Edward S. Ellis 



Martha Finley , , 



Francis Forrester ; ; 



Lucy Ellen Guernsey 

 Samuel Goodrich (Peter Parley) 

 Lieut. R. H. Jayne , 



Elijah Kellogg i 



Colonel H. R. Gordon 

 Lawrence Lancewood 

 Madeline Leslie 

 Brooks McCormick 

 Sophie May ; 



May Mannering 

 Joanna Mathews 

 James Otis 



Oliver Optic (Wm. T. Adams) 

 Pansy 



Arthur Leet Putnam 

 Margaret Sidney i 



C. A. Stephens 



Edward Stratemeyer ' 



J. T. Trowbridge 

 Anna Warner '< 



Elizabeth Wetherell 

 Susan Warner 



Arthur M. Winfield I 



Daniel Wise j 



Francis Woodworth 



dining at the stockmen's banquet, taking 

 in a show, and, Russell admitted with a 

 blush early in the week, "We may have a 

 date." 



Both men are Farm Bureau members and 

 took active parts in discussion at some of 

 the meetings. 



The richest heritage a farmer can 

 give his children is a fair share of their 

 mother's time. 



A good woods is like a savings bank ac- 

 count, or a paid up insurance policy. 



Convolvulus arvensis is just another 

 name for field bindweed, Illinois' weed 

 enemy No. 1. i 





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