HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



HOME MAKING 



fount. V I'roject Day 



Continued from page 1, column 2 



"peppy" parodies which were quite ap- 

 propriate for such a meeting and got 

 everyone in tune for the rest of the pro- 

 gram. 



Playlet Shows Project Work 



One of the interesting features of the 

 day was the playlet put on by various 

 project groups in the county showing 

 what they had done. 



The plot in brief is: Mrs. Parker is 

 calling on a friend of hers, Miss Duda, 

 who is a county project leader. Mrs. 

 Parker who lives on a farm and has a 

 number of children knows very little 

 about extension work. So they call on 

 the Home Demonstration Agent who sug- 

 gest they call on some nearby groups and 

 see for themselves what is going on in 

 extension projects. 



They call on Mrs. Hopkins, president 

 of the Mothers' Club of the First Church 

 of Northampton who with Mrs. March 

 plan their basket lunch for the County 

 Project Day using the score card. They 

 take care of the children's lunch box for 

 school and "hubby's" dinner to be left 

 on the table for him. 



The Bondsville ladies wore their dresses 

 they made in clothing construction. A 

 showing the guide pattern and how their 

 dresses were obtained by changing the 

 pattern. 



The Hatfield group brought out very 

 cleverly what they had done in Millinery. 

 They wore their hats and brought out 

 points in choosing, making and trimming 

 to be considered in making a becoming- 

 hat. 



A telephone conversation on a party 

 line between Mrs. Pomeroy and Mrs. 

 Strong of Easthampton brought out what 

 a number of home demonstrators had 

 done as a result of attending Miss Tuck- 

 er's lectures on Care of Clothes. 



Mrs. Cooper and Mrs. Stowell of Flor- 

 ence told about the Children's Clothes 

 Project. Then twenty little boys and 

 girls belonging to mothers who had taken 

 that project were a style show proving 

 there had been some fine work done in 

 the county in that project. 



The Westhampton ladies had a meet- 

 ing of the testing circle. Each one had 

 a piece of equipment they had tested, ex- 

 plained its use and how they liked it. 

 Mrs. Howard, Mrs. Burt and Mrs. Wil- 

 liams told of the improvements they had 

 made in their kitchens, how inexpensive 

 they were and how they lightened labor 

 and saved steps and time. Then they 

 .showed some chairs they had done in the 

 furniture lenovating meetings. One had 

 a rush bottom seat, another a cane seat 

 and the third an old Windsor which had 

 been lefinished. 



Miss Tucker, the state clothing special- 

 ist, told about the state clothing program 

 which is to include a new project this 

 next year on "Feet and Their Care". 

 Miss Lucile Reynolds, State Home Dem- 

 onstration Leader, ended the playlet by 

 telling what other counties were doing 

 and how a well balanced community pro- 

 gram helped to make "better homes". 



Cummington Own Your Own 

 Room Club 



For the Junior work the Own-Your- 

 Own-Room Club of Cummington staged 

 a meeting. It was very well done. Each 

 member gave a report of what she had 

 done and was planning to do to her room. 

 They had several articles on exhibit which 

 gave an idea of the small things they had 

 done. The business part of the meeting 

 was carried on very efficiently and the 

 cheers were very original. 



"Woman a.s a Home Manager" 



Mrs. Elizabeth Stone MacDonald 



The chief speaker for the day was Mrs. 

 Elisabeth Stone MacDonald who until re- 

 cently has had charge of the Priscilla 

 Proving Plant and who is now field editor 

 of the Modern Priscilla Magazine. Mrs. 

 MacDonald urged the women present to 

 realize that in making an ideal home they 

 had one of the hardest jobs there is. In 

 order to have time to spend profitably 

 with her family and friends she could 

 have an effective time budget, proper 

 equipment which is often a matter of 

 substraction rather than addition, prop- 

 erly placed equipment and family co- 

 operation. 



In ending Mrs. MacDonald stated that 

 it is not the things we can buy that are 

 the richest and that make the home ideal 

 but the spiritual things that are not made 

 and cannot be bought. No matter where 

 the home is or how much money goes 

 along with it, the home is not ideal until 

 we have the right attitude of mind as to 

 the ideal and have faith, patience and love 

 to go with it. 



Health Decalogue 



"Eat less — chew more. 

 Ride less — walk more. 

 Clothe less — bathe more. 

 Idle less — play more. 

 Talk less — think more. 

 Go less — sleep more. 

 Waste less — give more. 

 Scold les.s — laugh more. 

 Preach less — practice more." 



Instead of the ordinary round-bowled 

 ladle for use in the kitchen, you can 

 get an aluminum one with an egg shaped 

 bowl which is much less likely to spill as 

 you pour out of it from the small or lip- 

 shaped end. It has a prong on the handle 

 to keep it from slipping into the kettle. 



An aluminum sanitary sink strainer is 

 made to hang over the edge of the sink. 

 The cover is attached in such a w-ay that 

 it can be tilted around and slipped under 

 the strainer when it is taken out to be 

 emptied thus preventing any dripping on 

 the floor. 



You may hunt quite a while before you 

 find a shoit, flexible spatula but one a 

 blade only six inches long seems best for 

 most purposes and is worth hunting for. 



The three extra leaves of one of the new 

 dining room tables are put away not in 

 the closet or attic but under the top of 

 the table itself which closes as snugly 

 over them as our old tables closed over 

 nothing. 



KEEP UP WITH TIMES! 



One of the newest muffin pans has a 

 minimum of space to wash and scour as 

 the space around the edges between the 

 cups is not filled in with aluminum. 



LINEN DRESS GOODS 



With the approach of warmer weather, 

 linen as a dress material is coming into 

 favor more than ever before. With its 

 sheen, its absorbent properties, and the 

 speed with which it dries, it is ideal fabric 

 for the sticky days of summer. It is cool, 

 strong, beautiful, easy to launder, and 

 withal inexpensive. Impi-ovements in. 

 manufacture have remedied two of the 

 old time faults; first, the tendency to 

 crush easily, and second, the difficulty of 

 getting a fast dye linen. Now there may 

 be had a linen that will not crush ex- 

 cessively and that will hold its color.- 

 These last two considerations have great- 

 ly increased the desirability of linens for 

 dress purposes during summer. 



For the present season, it appears that 

 the coarser, looser weaves will be the rule 

 for dress linens. There seems to be no 

 great demand for the finely woven French 

 fabrics. Prices are moderate. The 

 coarser weaves are, of course, the cheap- 

 er. In the case of the fast color fabrics, 

 owing to the cost of the processing, these 

 prices will range from 15 per cent to 20 

 per cent higher. This process takes away 

 in some measure the glossy finish charac- 

 tertistic of linen, but the ease of launder- 

 ing which results does much to offset or 

 even to overcome this disadvantage. 



Its' Care — Setting of Colors 



To secure the utmost in wear and ap- 

 pearance of your linen dress, it will be 

 well to observe the following suggestions 

 as to its care and laundering. 



If when the fabric is placed in the 

 water the color begins to run, something 

 must be added to set it. For a brown, 

 black or pink, salt is the best agent and 



