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Small delllci moka pleasant pickup work. 

 They're uieful in many ways — under 

 lamps and vases, for your china closet, or 

 In table settings. This ten-Inch doily com- 

 bining clusters, lacy loops and scallops 

 makes a dainty accessory for any room. 

 For free Instructions send a self-addressed 

 stamped envelope to Women's Editor, Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association Record, 43 East 

 Ohio Street, Chicago II, III. 



SEE CHICAGO IN TOUR 



Fifty-five women from Kane county 

 attended the Home Bureau's annual Chi- 

 cago tour last fall conducted by the Chi- 

 cago, Aurora and Elgin Railroad. They 

 toured the Art Institute, ate lunch at the 

 Merchandise Mart restaurant, went to 

 the WMAQ radio studio for the "Ladies 

 Be Seated" radio program, star gazed at 

 the planetarium, saw the Chicago Daily 

 Tribune prize homes, and completed the 

 day by eating dinner and seeing the floor 

 show at the Blackhawk. 



STATE LEADS IN OLEO 



Illinois leads all other states in the 

 production of margarine, according to 

 the University of Illinois bureau of 

 economic and business research. Illi- 

 nois produced 32 per cent of the U. S. 

 total of 550,000,000 pounds of mar- 

 gerine in 1946. Thirty-six per cent of 

 the Illinois soybean crop went into 

 margarine in 1946. Nine of the na- 

 tion's 45 margerine factories are in Il- 

 linois. 



Farmers Make Very 

 Nice' Husbands 

 Say The Ladies . 



The farmer makes a pretty fine hus- 

 band according to a recent nation-wide 

 poll of farm women. The question asked 

 was "What does your husband do that 

 annoys you most?" 



The survey, conducted for Successful 

 Farming magazine, revealed that 14 per 

 cent of the women interviewed could not 

 think of one annoying thing worth men- 

 tioning of which their husbands were 

 guilty. 



The three high ranking pee\es were 

 husbands who track in mud and dirt 

 from outside, which accounted for 34.7 

 per cent of the women's votes; husbands 

 who forget things they are supposed to 

 buy, and husbands who never pick up 

 their clothes, each of the last rating 27.1 

 per cent of the annoyances. 



Other complaints were against hus- 

 bands who go to sleep on the davenport 

 right after dinner, who read magazines 

 while their wives are talking to them and 

 who neglect to wash out the bathtub. 



One woman said, "He laughs at me 

 when I get mad," and another accused, 

 "He wears his hat crooked and won't 

 change it." Most of the women added 

 qualifying statements such as, "He really 

 is very nice, though" or "Little things 

 like those mentioned above don't annoy 

 me." 



REINDEER APPLlGHJi 



Honor 60 Members 



The Grundy County Home Bureau 

 completed their membership drive 

 Nov. 15 by honoring 60 new members 

 with a 3 4- 1 luncheon. Mrs. R. E. 

 Mulligan, federation music chairman, 

 reviewed her trip to the Conference of 

 Associated Country Women of the 

 World held recently in Holland. 



The program also included group 

 singing led by Mrs. Milligan and ac- 

 companied by Mrs. R. A. Shively, as 

 well as a piano duet by Mrs. Vietta 

 Madison and Mrs. C. Watters of 

 Mazon. 



Appllqui offers you an easy means of deco- 

 rating your table linens. Moke place mats 

 of beige, applique wiHi coceo-coiored rein- 

 deer. Brown embroidery floss outlines the 

 grass and antlers. Four of these mats 

 make a handsome gift for the bride or 

 homemaker. For free instructions send a 

 self-addressed stamped envelope to Wom- 

 en's Editor, Illinois Agricultural Association 

 Record, 43 East Ohio Street, Chicago 11, III. 



NEW FABRICS IMPROVED 



Many new fabrics are coming into 

 the market that are sheer, strong, wash- 

 able, require little or no ironing, and 

 yet retain their original beauty and 

 shape. Miss Beth Peterson, home econ- 

 omist, told members of the Stephenson 

 County Home Bureau at a meeting held 

 recently in the Farm Bureau building 

 in Freeport. 



She said also that the prices have 

 been reduced on cellophane, and im- 

 portant packaging material for both 

 home and commercially frozen foods. 

 The ladies served coffee and assorted 

 tea cookies and mints at the close of 

 the program. Mrs. Chester Miller led 

 the group in singing, accompanied on 

 the piano by Miss Pauline Graybill. 



PRATT IS NEW ADVISER 



Miss Dorothy Pratt is the new home 

 adviser in Washington county. She 

 comes to Nashville from Boone county 

 where she served as home advisor for 

 more than a year. She is a home eco- 

 nomics graduate from Iowa State Col- 

 lege at Ames, Iowa. 



JANUARY. 1848 



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