NEWS -^ VIEWS 



SPORTS FESTIVAL GETS 

 O.K. OF RURAL WOMEN 



Your federation publicity chairman 

 with notebook in hand turned inquir- 

 ing reporter at the Seventh Annual Illi- 

 nois Farm Sports Festival the second 

 afternoon of the big two-day event. 



The question : "What did you think 

 ■of the Sports Festival this year?" The 

 answers 



Mrs. Esther Thor, home adviser of 

 •Champaign county: "Pretty good for 

 the first year since the war . . . partici- 

 pation fair . . . last night's program 

 very good." 



Mrs. Roland Cox, McLean county: 

 "Think it's wonderful . . . every local 

 ■county should have a Sports Festival 

 for elimination. Ideal for every one 

 . . . I'm soon going to be over 35 and 

 il don't want to quit." 



By the way, Mrs. Cox won first in 

 dart throwing first in clock golf, and 

 second in shuffleboard. She left home 

 at 7 :30 each morning drove 60 miles 

 to the Sports Festival and went home 

 and helped milk their cows at night. 



Mrs. Theodore Mueller, St. Clair 

 county . . . mother of a top notch base 

 ball pitcher of the soft ball league for 

 St. Clair county : "First time to a Sports 

 Festival . . . followed the team. 1 

 think it is fine and hope that our 

 women will take a more active pari 

 . . . going back home and do some real 

 boosting for the Festival next year." 



Mrs. Fred Martin, wife of Fred L. 

 Martin, district manager of Farm 

 Supply with headquarters in DeKalb 

 and living quarters in ShelbyviUe . . 

 the housing problem! With Mrs. Mar- 

 tin was her 16 months old son Jeffrey 

 who didn't have much to say, but Mrs. 

 Martin said: "The night program was 

 wonderful. And, her mother-in-law, 

 Mrs. A. Z. Martin, Champaign, said : 

 "I've never missed a one and this was 

 the best ever." 



Mrs. Roscoe R. Smith, Kane County. 

 . . the only grandmother that walked 

 of/ with five ribbons in senior division 

 . second in clock golf, shuffleboard. 

 dart throwing, and nail driving, and 

 third place in horseshoes. 



When asked about her sport activities 

 .... "I just like to play". And when 

 asked Mrs. Smith how much practice 



she did to wm all those ribbons, she 

 answered, "I practiced horsehoes but 

 that is all." 



Mrs. Smith feels that the event should 

 be scheduled with more time in between 

 .... because she said that she was dizzy 

 from one event to the next. And, she 

 would like to have more material sent 

 before . . . especially the rules. 



Mrs. Emilie Rediger, McLean County 

 Illinois Home Bureau Federation chair- 

 man, member of the General Adminis- 

 trative comittee for the Sports Festi- 

 val, feels that there should be more 

 practice in the county. And, to assist 

 women who are anxious to take part 

 in the Sports Festival and for a lot of 

 good fun with the family, Mrs. Rediger 

 will send material about Sports Festival 

 activities in the early spring to all the 

 county recreation chairman. 



GINGERBREAD 



Homamade Gingerbread Mix 



4 c. sifted all pur- 1 t. cinnamon 



pose flour 1 t. salt 



1 T. soda 1 c. sugar 



1 T. ginger I c. lard 



Sift flour with remaining dry ingredients. 

 Cut lard into dry ingredients with a pastry 

 blender until mixture is very fine. Store 

 Gmgerbread Mix in refrigerator, using from 

 it the desired amount whenever hot ginger- 

 bread, gingerbread cup cakes, upsidedown 

 gingerbread and so on are desired. Yields 6 

 cups. 



Gingerbread Cup Calces 



2 c. Homemade Gin- leans molasses 



gerbread Mix % c. buttermilk 



% c. pure New Or- I egg, well beaten 



Beat molasses and buttermilk together and 

 add to Gingerbread Mix. Stir until smooth 

 and then add the egg. Pour into greased muf- 

 fin pans and bake in a moderatelv hot oven 

 of 350" F. for JO minutes. Makes 1 dozen 

 medium muflFins 



SLIPCOVERING IS AN 

 ART OF DESIGN 



Really attractive slipcovering is an 

 art — the same as any other aspect of in- 

 terior decoration. To do the job well 

 one needs to know something about 

 color and design and to have a sense of 

 appropriateness, according to Miss Mar- 

 ion Kaeser, home furnishings speci- 

 alist, University of Illinois College of 

 Agriculture. 



Ruffles may look very charming in d 

 girl's bedroom, but they certainly would 

 be mismated with a massive overstuffed 

 chair in the library or living room. 

 There are many ways to add decoration 

 to a man's room or to general living 

 quarters without filling the covers with 

 frills. 



Pleats, either boxed or inverted, make 

 a more tailored trimming for the bot- 

 tom of slipcovers, or a straight piece 

 of material with pleated corners could 

 be used. A contrasting color might be 

 added by means of binding or cording. 



The sense of appropriateness is im- 

 portant, too, when it comes to seaming 

 up the covers. Seams should come at 

 logical places so that their lines will 

 fit in with the structural lines of the 

 chair. An easy guide is to put them 

 wherever they were located in the orig- 

 inal upholstery. 



Choice of color depends to some ex- 

 tent, of course, upon the other colors in 

 the room, but its intensity is determined 

 largely by the size of the furniture be- 

 ing covered. Large pieces of furniture 

 require a more grayed or dull hue than 

 smaller pieces. A footstool or small 

 occasional chair, for example, may be 

 covered in a much brighter color than a 

 sofa. 



HANCOCK HOME ADVISER 



Miss Mildred O. Eaton has been named 

 home adviser for Hancock County effec- 

 tive Oct. 1. Her office will be at Car- 

 thage. 



Former youth assistant of Madison 

 county, she has been active there as a 

 leader in 4-H club work and Rural Youth 

 activities. She was formerly an instructor 

 '.n the Highland high school. 



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