HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMEPwS' MONTHLY 



HOME MAKING 



CLOTHING PROJECT ENDS I 

 FOR SEASON 



County-wide Meetjng Meld in North= 

 amptun with Miss Ruth Evans and 

 Miss Marion Tucker Chief Speakers 



The clothing project came to a success- 

 ful close with the county-wide summary 

 meeting held in Northampton at the Odd 

 Fellows Hall June 26th. Although the 

 day was extremely hot one hundred and 

 twenty-five women were present and 

 every town in the county with the excep- 

 tion of two were represented. The pro- 

 gram was instructive and the women had 

 a good time getting acquainted and dis- 

 cussing the exhibit of dresses and hats 

 which had been made in the clothing 

 class. 



The morning session began with the re- 

 ports from the local leaders. The leaders 

 were introduced by Mrs. S. R. Parker 

 of Amherst, County Clothing Leader. 

 Reports were given by Mrs. S. S. Lom- 

 bard, Amherst; Mrs. A. L. Moore, Hunt- 

 ington; Miss Stella Duda, Easthampton; 

 Mrs. George Burt, Westhampton; Mrs. 

 Clayton Hannum, Southampton; Mrs. 

 Fred Shumway, Williamsburg; Mrs. Jesse 

 M. Vaughan, Greenwich Village; Mrs. 

 Charles Goldthwaite, Granby; Mrs. 

 Mitchell, South Hadley Falls. 



After the report of each leader she 

 and the representatives of her group 

 marched around the room affording a 

 splendid opportunity for all to see the 

 dresses made and fine work accomplished. 



Miss Marion Tucker, the State Cloth- 

 ing Specialist, told of the work done by 

 the women throughout the state in this 

 project. There are nine counties besides 

 Hampshire carrying the same project 

 which meets with 78 groups of people. 

 Eight hundred women in the state are 

 working with leaders and three hundred 

 women have received this work from their 

 county Home Agent. In all, about 1,250 

 women have been carrying on the work 

 in the state. An advance outline of cloth- 

 ing work for the future was given by 

 Miss Tucker. 



A fine dinner was served by the North- 

 ampton Grange and this offered the 

 women another chance to become ac- 

 quainted. 



The afternoon program was opened by 

 a word from Miss Cora Howlett, leader 

 of the South Amherst Junior Sewing 

 Club, who spoke of the cooperation be- 

 tween junior and senior work and in- 

 troduced her club girls. These girls gave 

 a very clever demonstration on the use 

 of the machine attachments. They re- 

 ceived their instructions from Mrs. S. S. 

 Lombard, a member of the clothing train- 

 ing class. 



WORKING GROUP OF WARE FOOD PRESERVATION CLASS 



KITCHEN FLOORS 



(Continued from last month) 



A very satisfactory floor oil may be 

 made at home by combining: 



1 part boiled linseed oil. 



3 parts turpentine. 



This is applied hot or cold with a mop, 

 a floor thus treated can be wiped up with 

 a dry mop daily and when necessary it 

 may be washed with warm water and a 

 neutral soap. A new coating of oil may 

 be applied as often as necessary. A floor 

 that has been thoroughly filled with oil 

 does not spot with grease and is more 

 easily cared for than an untreated fioor. 



If boiled linseed oil is not available 

 then the following formula may be used: 

 Continued on page 5. column 1 



Since we could not think of having a 

 clothing meeting without a talk on post- 

 ure we felt very fortunate in securing 

 Miss Ruth Evans, Physical Director of 

 the Springfield Schools, to speak on this 

 subject. Miss Evans gave her audience 

 some valuable information legarding 

 posture as related to health and then 

 emphasized the different factors to think 

 about when considering posture as re- 

 lated to dress. 



The next speaker was Miss Marion 

 Tucker who spoke on becoming line and 

 color in considerable detail. She used 

 different fabrics of various colors to illus- 

 trate the three dimensions she explained, 

 hue, value and intensity. 



The last speaker was the State Home 

 Demonstration Leader, Miss Lucile Reyn- 

 olds, who brought out the relation of the 

 clothing project to the extension program. 



The reports from the women at the end 

 of the day places this meeting as one of 

 the best get-togethers. 



TRI-STATE NUTRITION 

 CONFERENCE HELD AT 



KINGSTON, R. I. 



Massachusetts Homemaker's Represent- 

 ative from Hampshire County 



Once more the extension workers of 

 the three states; Massachusetts, Rhode 

 Island and Connecticut, have got together 

 to discuss their problems. This year the 

 conference was he-Id at Kingston, R. L 

 where the R. I. State College is situated 

 and the problem under discussion was 

 nutrition. 



New Methods and subject matter were 

 given by the speakers. Two of the most 

 helpful speakers were Miss Flora Thurs- 

 ton, New York State Nutrition Specialist 

 and Dr. H. C. Sherman of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, New York City. 



Miss Thurston gave us very definite 

 information as to how New York was 

 securing leaders and presenting their sub- 

 ject matter. 



Dr. Sherman gave us some of the new 

 subject matter in the field of Nutrition. 

 His experiments with rats along this line 

 and the conclusions drawn were most in- 

 teresting and helpful. 



A very imporant part of the program 

 was suggestions given by homemakers as 

 to what their problems are and how we 

 can help them. The Massachusetts home- 

 maker representative was Mrs. P. C. 

 Bartlett of Greenwich Village. The sug- 

 gestions she gave were splendid. Mas- 

 sachusetts was proud of her and Hamp- 

 shire County was very proud to think 

 they could claim her. 



