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COUNTY NEWS ITEMS 



What the Women are Doing 



(Continued from last month). 



Meal Planning 



1. Westhampton. 



The first of a series of meetings on 

 meal planning was held January 4th. 

 The food needs of the body were dis- 

 cussed and the different food materials 

 grouped under these heads. At other 

 meetings variety in the diet menu 

 planning, scoring the family food 

 habits, packed lunches and supper 

 dishes will be discussed. The second 

 meeting of the series was held on Feb- 

 ruary 1st. This was an extension 

 school. Miss Queal, State Nutrition 

 Specialist had charge of the meal 

 planning session. Mrs. Dana Pelton is 

 leader for this group. 



2. Norwich Biidge 



The first group meeting was held 

 January 2.5th. This group is interested 

 in practically the same things in meal 

 planning as the Westhampton group. 

 Mrs. W. A. Munson is leader. 



3. Cummington. 



The first meeting was held January 

 31st. The food habits of the family 

 were then scored. Mrs. Arthur Giles 

 and Mrs. Charles Thayer are leaders 

 for this group. 

 Miscellaneous 

 Prescott 



A community meeting was held in 

 Prescott December 30th. Dress forms 

 and Household Accounting are the 

 projects in which these groups are in- 

 terested. This work will be started in 

 May. 



Mrs. Fannie Mitchell is leader for 

 the accounting gToup. Miss Ida 

 Waugh is leader for the Dress Form 

 group. 



South Amherst. 



A group of fourteen women in 

 South Amherst are interested in the 

 dress form and its uses. Mrs. S. R. 

 Parker is leader for this group. 



Plainfield. 



At an extension school held Janu- 

 ary 11, it was found the women were 

 interested in dress forms. This woi'k 

 will be started in May. Mrs. Clara 

 Gloyd is leader for this group. 



Huntington. 



Work in clothing efficiency and 

 household accounting was chosen by 

 the women of Huntington at a commu- 

 nity meeting December 15th. Mrs. 

 F. W. Clark is leader for the house- 

 hold accounting group. Mrs. C. H. 

 Chapin is leader for the Clothing 

 Efficiency group. A date was set for 

 beginning this work but due to bad 

 Continued in column 3 



CLOTHING EFFICIENCY 



Ihe Pelham Qroup 



The Clothing Efficiency Class in Pel- 

 ham is an outgrowth of the Enfield Class 

 which was held in 1919-1920 with Miss 

 Harriman as director and Mrs. Walter 

 Bliss as local leader. I had taken this 

 course and as I was living four miles 

 from Enfield I found several who were 

 glad to form a class nearer home. We 

 started with eight members and five 

 stayed with us. 



The meetings were held in the South 

 School after school hours. We had no 

 large tables so the younger girls drafted 

 skirts on the floor. We began in April 

 and took up the whole course by the last 

 of June. As it was taken in such a short 

 time it was not thoroughly digested and 

 the garments were not all completed as 

 spring is a busy season in our town. 



While we were taking our clothing effi- 

 ciency, Miss Collis, teacher of the school, 

 gave her girls instructions in sewing. 

 Thus they were ready for a Home Econ- 

 omics Club in sewing when Miss Erhard 

 called tipon them. They are now doing 

 their second year of sewing club work. 



The last of -June we were able to se- 

 cure Miss Harrimen for an all day meet- 

 ing which was held at the home of Miss 

 Collis. 



By another fall Miss Harriman had 

 gone but in January the class reorganized 

 under the leadership of Miss Dora Glover 

 who was the youngest member. The 

 meetings were held at the home of Mrs. 

 L. K. Ward. The meetings became a 

 happy social time and by summer the en- 

 tire course had been taken again with 

 no further guidance than the typewritten 

 sheets. A party went to Northampton in 

 May and received a new inspiration by 

 hearing Mrs. Reed. Several meetings 

 were arranged with the new home demon- 

 station agent but for one reason and 

 another we never saw her. 



This winter we have started in under 

 Mrs. French and she has delighted us by 

 giving us a day each month. We are 

 going through the course again and still 

 learning much. We have taken in 

 several new members and hope to have 

 about nine to complete the work. 



Miss Dora Glover is our leader. 



We are a group of young farmers' 

 wives and daughters, most of us city-bred, 

 and we are taking up this work because 

 we must. We have come to live in the 

 country where the farms are small and 

 run down and it is only right that we 

 make our clothing money go as far as pos- 

 sible. In order to do this it is necessary 

 to make our clothes and often to make 

 over garments. We have a hori'or of be- 

 coming run-down, because "nobody vidll 

 see us" and we believe that under Mrs. 

 Continued in column .3 



THE WILLIAMSBURG GROUP 



I am glad to report that Williams- 

 burg Clothing Efficiency Class is holding 

 a Meeting once a month with Mrs. French 

 as our instructor. Last year we had 

 twelve lessons of two to three hours which 

 gave us a good start for this year. So 

 we know quite a lot of what is expected 

 of us. The reasons we take these lessons 

 is becau.se we are interested in the sewing 

 and we know we shall learn the right, 

 easiest and quickest way to do it. Also 

 it has been a great help in the way we 

 place our patterns to save cloth. One 

 member of our class has not bought a 

 single pattern since she took the course 

 which was three years ago. Our class 

 started this month to hold an all day 

 meeting to do the home work assigned by 

 Mrs. French. 



Our aim is to receive at every one of 

 these meetings. 



I am sure if we can get our own line- 

 up right that we shall be sure of our 

 work in the future. 



We also have a social half hour at noon 

 each one contributing to the dinner. The 

 hostess of the day fui'nishes a hot drink. 



We appreciate our county meeting with 

 Mrs. Reed. 



Mrs. Annie Shumway, 

 Leader. 



Cotinued from column 2 

 Reed's guidance we shall be able to keep 

 ourselves up and look as well as our city 

 sisters with the money that is left after 

 the grain and fetilizer and machinery has 

 been paid for. 



Then, too, we have a delightful hostess, 

 who urges us to biing all our interested 

 friends, serves us a dinner at noon and a 

 lunch before we separate. Thus with 

 our comfortable homes, new clothes in 

 prospect, and a bountiful social life we 

 can enjoy living in the land of "rocks 

 and rills, woods and templed hills" which 

 so well describes our town. 



Jessica Ballon Chaffee. 



Contiuiieil from column 1 

 weather it has been requested post- 

 poned until more settled weather. 

 Hatfield. 



The making of a dress foi'm was 

 demonstrated to a group of fifteen. 

 Two forms were made — one being made 

 by two of the women who had pre- 

 viou.sly seen the form demonstration. 

 Mrs. H. D. Smith is leader for this 

 group. 

 Ware. 



At a community meeting held Feb- 

 ruary 16. Meal Planning and Dress 

 Form were chosen by the women. 



Mrs. Herb Wilkinson is leader for 

 the dress form group. Mrs. Emma 

 Gareau is leader for the meal planning 

 group. The first meeting will be held 

 March 17th. 



