FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



HOME MAKING 



DR. HEDGER TO SPEAK 



Homemakers Picnic Will Provide 

 This Treat 



To the homemakers of Hampshire 

 County June 9, the date of our county- 

 wide homemakers' day, is a red letter one 

 for Dr. Caroline Hedger is to be with us 

 as speaker. 



The following tells something of her 

 work and experience but nothing of her 

 unusual personality. She inspires one 

 with her strength of mind and purpose 

 and ideal to make the world a better place 

 for children and adults to live in. 



Dr. Caroline Hedger is a member of the 

 staff of the Elizabeth McCormick Me- 

 morial Fund of Chicago. Previous to her 

 connection with that organization, Dr. 

 Hedger was a school physician under the 

 Chicago Health Department, and in that 

 capacity, and also as a member of the 

 Board of the Infant Welfare Society, she 

 was influential in putting on the Baby 

 Saving Campaign in Chicago some years 

 ago. 



In the early years of the World War 

 Dr. Hedger was sent by the Chicago 

 Woman's Club to Belgium, to assist in 

 the fight against the terrible typhoid 

 epidemic which was ravaging the country. 

 This work proved to be to a large extent 

 among the children. 



Dr. Hedger has had many years ex- 

 perience as a physician and has devoted 

 much of her time to child welfare and 

 educational work with mothers. During 

 recent years she has spent a great deal of 

 time lecturing and training health work- 

 ers. This work has lai'gely been carried 

 on through State Colleges, in co-operation 

 with the Extension Workers and the 

 United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture. Last year she spoke in fifteen dif- 

 ferent states to 207 organizations and her 

 total audiences numbered .51,859. 



The general purpose of the work of 

 the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund 

 is to improve the condition of child life 

 in the United States. In carrying out 

 this purpose, in its early years the Fund 

 conducted tents where babies were cared 

 for during the summer, established and 

 maintained open air schools and open 

 window rooms for pre-tuberculous and 

 anaemis children, and made studies of 

 various phases of child welfare. It con- 

 tinues to assist in supporting infant wel- 

 fare work in Chicago and to encourage 

 the establishment and standardization of 

 open air schools, while carrying on its 

 main activities of promoting nutrition 

 work and general health education among 

 children. 



Nutrition work under the direction of 

 the Fund is conducted among groups of 

 children in schools, social settlements, 

 municipal playgrounds and United Char- 

 ities centers. The Fund has introduced 



WHY NOT YOUR CLUB? 



Two Mothers' Clubs in North- 

 ampton have 'voted to make June 9 

 their annual picnic day and go to 

 Laurel Park. This gives the moth- 

 ers a chance to have a "real picnic." 

 They will hear one of the best 

 speakers obtainable, they will meet 

 women from other towns who are 

 interested in the same things they 

 are, and they will have some one to 

 take care of the children while they 

 attend the meeting. In fact, it is a 

 good scheme. Why doesn't the club 

 of which you are a member vote to 

 do the same thing? 



general health education into several 

 school systems, including certain rural 

 schools, and has collected data and made 

 studies in regard to the growth of chil- 

 dren. 



The Fund distributes a great deal of 

 material on child welfare. This includes 

 publications and loan collections of ex- 

 hibits, films and slides. It also maintains 

 a Speakers' Bureau through which speak- 

 ers are supplied for meetings desiring 

 lecturers on child health and kindred sub- 

 jects. 



THE EGG IS A GOOD FOOD 



As a food, there are few which surpass 

 eggs. It is interesting to know just what 

 value they have in the human diet. 



Eggs are easily obtained, are generally 

 liked, and at this time of the year are a 

 cheap food. 



They are delivered in a practically 

 germ proof wrapper- the one provided by 

 the hen. 



Eggs contain a very good protein, a 

 tissue building substance, so necessary in 

 building and repairing muscular tissue. 



Phosphorus, iron and sulphur, neces- 

 sary in building bones and teeth and in 

 regulating certain important bodily pro- 

 cesses, are found in eggs in abundance 

 and in easily usable form. 



An emulsified fat, easy to digest, is 

 found in the egg yolk. 



And eggs are rich in vitamin.s — the D 

 vitamin, so necessai'y in the prevention 

 and control of rickets, is found in abun- 

 dance. 



Eggs combine readily with milk, cei'eals 

 and other foods to form pleasant and 

 nutritious dishes. 



An egg a day for every child and adult 

 over two years of age is recommended, 

 especially when they are cheap. The 

 child from nine months to two years 

 should have an egg yolk every other day, 

 even when they are expensive. A tea- 

 spoon of egg yolk, either raw or hard 

 cooked and grated, is often added to the 

 milk of a bottle fed baby at three months. 



HOME FURNISHING 



Continued from la.st month 



Granted that we now have a satisfac- 

 tory background arrangement, the furni- 

 ture for the living room is the next con- 

 sideration. First of all, it should be 

 adapted to the family. Second, it should 

 suggest comfort. You remember in the 

 fairy tale when Goldilocks made her 

 visit to the strange house in the woods 

 she found that each one — Papa Bear, 

 Mama Bear, and little Wee Bear, had his 

 favorite chair. Why isn't it a good plan 

 for the Papa and Mama and the wee ones 

 in our homes? It is the "Wee Bears" 

 who are often left out in furnishing the 

 living room. There are such attractive, 

 comparatively inexpensive chairs on the 

 market now for children that it seems as 

 though almost every home could be pro- 

 vided with them. Not many homes can 

 afford an upholstered davenport for the 

 living room. Not all can have a wicker 

 divan with cretonne or denim cushions. 

 But why not then have a comfortable cot 

 with an attractive cover and bright pil- 

 lows where mother or grandmother may 

 rest if tired and yet be a part of the 

 family group? 



It seems almost superflouous to say 

 that rugs and large pieces of furniture 

 such as the piano, the couch, the table, 

 the bookcase should be placed parallel 

 with the structural lines of the room, not 

 diagonally across the corners. There is 

 no one thing that contributes so much to 

 a restful effect in the living room as the 

 proper arrangement of these large pieces 

 of furniture. You do not want to call at- 

 tention to any one article in the room as 

 a rug or a table. What you want to 

 achieve is a pleasing general effect of the 

 ensemble just as in an orchestra you do 

 not wish the tones from any one instru- 

 ment to predominate, you want a blend- 

 ing into one harmonious symphony. 



The curtains for the windows may be 

 considered either as a part of the back- 

 ground or as a part of the foreground. 

 It will depend on the material, color and 

 pattern used. Glass curtains of the same 

 general .shade as the background color of 

 the walls are generally successful, es- 

 pecially if tan, ecru or buff is used for the 

 walls. Such materials as marc]uisetts, 

 theatrical gauze, voile, net and scrim are 

 excellent to use thus. Whether or not 

 over drapes are advisable is a matter that 

 each person needs to consider carefully 

 and decide for himself. It depends on 

 the size of the room, the number and ar- 

 rangement of windows, the number of 

 pictures, books and decorative objects to 

 be used in the room, the views from the 

 windows that may be partially shut out 

 if drapes are used. Haven't you all seen 

 small living rooms in which there were 



