hampshire county p^armers' monthly 

 home: making 



COUNTY NEWS ITEMS 



What the Women Are Doing 



At the various community meetings tlie 

 home activities of tlie women liave been 

 listed and the ones in which there is 

 special interest and problems have been 

 checked. Plans are then worked out for 

 studying these particular phases of home 

 activities. In this way each town is 

 taking up a study of the things in which 

 the women are particularly interested. 

 The following is a list of the towns in 

 which community meetings have been 

 held and what the women are studying: — 



Town 



Cummington 



Goshen 

 Huntington 



Norwich Hill 

 Westhampton 



Granby 

 Belchertown 

 Pelhani 

 Prescott 



Interest 



Meal Planning 

 Dress Form 

 Dress Forms 

 Clothing Efficiency 

 Household Accounting 

 Food for the Family 

 Food for the Family 

 Kitchen Arrangement 

 Clothing Efficiency 

 Dress Forms 

 Clothing Efficiency 



THE HOME BUREAU CREED 



Make It Your Creed 



To maintain the highest ideal of home 



life, 

 To count children the most important 



crop, 

 To so mother them that their bodies may 



be sound, their minds clear, their 



spirits happy and their characters 



generous, 

 To place sci-vice above comfort, 

 To let loyalty to high purpose silence dis- 

 cordant notes, 

 To let neighborliness supplant hatreds. 

 To be discouraged never, 

 To lose self generous enthusiasm, 

 To extend to the less fortunate a helping 



hand. 

 To believe one's community may become 



the best of communities, 

 To cooperate with others for the common 



life, 

 This is the offer of the Home Bureau to 



the home-maker of to-day. 



— Ruby Green Smith. 



Word has just come telling of the en- 

 gagement of Miss Helen Harriman, our 

 former home demonstration agent, to Mr. 

 John Livingston Kopke. After over two 

 year's work here in the county Miss Har- 

 riman left to tart the clothing efficiency 

 work in Kentucky. She is now State 

 Specialist in that line with headquarters 

 at Lexington, Ky. 



Mr. Kopke is an instructor at the U. 

 S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. 



RAISIN BREAD 



Food for the Kiddies 



1 cake Fleischman yeast. 



1 cup milk — scalded. 



1 tablespoon sugar. 



1 cup hot water. 



4 tablespoons shortening. 



3/4 cup sugar. 



1 cup raisins. 



•3/4 teaspoon salt. 



Flour. 



Dissolve 1 tablespoon sugar in the 

 scalded milk and hot water and allow to 

 cool until the little finger can be placed 

 in the liquid with no sensation of heat. 

 Crumble the yeast cake and disolve in the 

 liquid. Cream the sugar and shortening 

 together. Add sifted flour to the liquid 

 to make a medium stiff batter, add the 

 creamed sugar and shortening and beat 

 until smooth. Cover and set aside to 

 rise at a temperature of 70°-75° F until 

 very light. Add rasins which have been 

 dredged with flour, flour to make a soft 

 dough and saltKnead well, cover and set 

 aside until double in bulk. Knead lightly 

 using as little flour as possible and shape 

 into loaves. Cover and set aside until 

 double in size. Bake. This receipt 

 makes two loaves. 



Note: — Raisin bread is an especially 

 good bread for children. The raisins 

 aside from being a natural form of sugar 

 are rich in iron which is needed by the 

 body for building red coloring matter. 



Out to Win 



"It takes a little courage, 

 And a little self control. 

 And some grim determination 

 If you want to win the goal. 



"It takes a deal of striving. 

 And a stern and firm set chin 

 No matter what the battle. 

 If we're really out to win." 



Shopping Card 



If every woman would have a card 

 telling how many yards of what width 

 material is required for certain garments 

 many quarter of yards would be saved 

 and incidentally a good many pennies. 



A FARM HOME 



A True Story 



It was a homey home, yet the general 

 appearance and plan of the house showed 

 it had long been standing. 



This particular farm house had changed 

 owners within the past year. I, of course 

 was interested to know why the former 

 owner had disposed of such an attractive 

 home. I was told the home had been sold 

 because the many home duties together 

 with those that seem to be given a woman 

 on the farm had proven too much for this 

 woman and her health had given away. 

 But the present homemaker seemed 

 so happy and contented and had time for 

 social affairs, community meetings, and 

 many other things outside her immediate 

 home duties. Wherein was the dif- 

 ference? I wondered. But in a short 

 time my question was answered for I was 

 taken to the kitchen which had been re- 

 modeled and learranged since the present 

 owner had bought the place. In fact, 

 the room that had been the kitchen was 

 now abandoned for that purpose, it being 

 used as a laundry room, a room in which 

 the men washed and hung their heavy 

 coats and overalls worn in doing the 

 farm work. The kitchen proper was not 

 a large room. The stove, sink, storage 

 and china cupboards with work space be- 

 neath were placed so as to conserve the 

 worker's energy for there were only three 

 or four steps from the cupboaid to the 

 stove, and the sink, and working space 

 beneath the cupboard was of a height to 

 cause no rounded shoulders and back- 

 aches. The cupboard was against the 

 wall between the dining room and 

 kitchen and there was a slide door so that 

 the prepared food could be placed on the 

 working space on the kitchen side and 

 with but one trip to the dining room 

 placed on the table. What had been a 

 I pantry was now an attractive bath room. 



Is it any wonder that the present mis- 

 tress of this home is enjoying life, her 

 family, and her friends where the former 

 mistress is woi-n out and in ill health? 



This home is in the town of Amherst, 

 If you have a similar story in your town, 

 let us know about it. 



House Dress 



Petticoat 



Waist 



Combination 



Skirt 



27 in. 



32 in. 



36 in. I 40 in. 



50 in. 



56 in. 



