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THREE hundred Home Bureau 

 women attended the women's con- 

 ference held in conjunction with 

 the 34th annual meeting of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association 

 in Qiicago. Miss Myra Robinson, presi- 

 dent of the Illinois Home Bureau Federa- 

 tion, presided at both sessions. Kelso 

 Sharp, Elwood, opened each session with 

 a group of songs. 



In her talk before the morning session. 

 Miss Celeste Carlyle, style consultant of 

 Chicago, urged the women to buy fewer 

 and better clothes. She advised them 

 to purchase one really good outfit each 

 season, then wear it. It is poor manage- 

 ment, she said, to buy good, fashionable 

 clothes and then take such good care of 

 them that they are out of style before 

 they are worn. A well-chosen costume 

 should be wearable for four or five years. 



A becoming color should be selected, 

 one that will fit with the other clothes 

 in the wardrobe. Then everything should 

 be chosen to harmonize with this color. 

 Gray is a good color this year and a coat, 

 hat and dress of this color might be se- 

 lected. Variation and contrast can be 

 achieved through the use of accessories, 

 she said. 



Miss Carlyle suggested that home- 

 makers should make special efforts to be 

 attractively dressed when they are at 

 home with their families. "After all," 

 she said, "the family is the group that 

 the homemaker holds most dear and it 

 is too bad if she must wear her old, un- 

 attractive dresses before them." 



Most women need very little make-up 

 if their skins are healthy and radiant. 

 Miss Carlyle did not advocate plucking 

 the eyebrows. Only the patch over the 

 nose should be plucked. She brought 

 out the fact that the eyes need heavy 

 brows or they wouldn't grow that way. 

 The brows may be rticely shaped by 

 brushing and a girl should start shaping 

 them when she is young. 



Miss Carlyle suggested that rouge, lip- 

 stick and powder be bought in small 

 ten cent packages for trial. When the 

 most becoming color has been chosen the 

 other packages should be given away or 

 sold but certainly not used to just keep 

 from wasting them. Larger amounts 

 may be bought after the selection has 

 been made. Most beauticians' blending 

 powders work under artificial lights so 

 the color tones cannot be depended upon. 



Hair is an important factor in a wom- 

 an's appearance. It should be arranged 

 to bring out the beauty of the face. The 

 woman with a short neck should have 

 her hair cut short or combed up at the 

 back, in no case should she have a fluff 

 of hair around her neck. 



The sides should be close to the head 

 with heighth given by combing the hair 

 up in front. The woman with a long 

 narrow face will find a hair-do wide on 

 the sides and low over the forehead be- 

 coming. The person with a very low 

 forehead will find that very short bangs 

 will give the illusion of heighth to the 

 forehead. 



At the afternoon session, Mrs. John 

 Jennings, Joliet, spoke on "Flower Ar- 

 rangements and Table Decorations". She 



demonstrated to the homemakers ways in 

 which they could use the materials avail- 

 able in their yards and along the road- 

 side to make attractive arrangements that 

 could be used on their dining tables or 

 for living room decoration. 



Mrs. Jennings gave a few general 

 rules. The heighth of an arrangement 

 should always be at least one and one 

 half times the heighth of the vase or one 

 and one half times the width if a flat 

 container is being used. Every arrange- 

 ment should have balance. 



Mrs. Jennings advocated the use of a 

 needlepoint holder to keep material in 

 place. She anchored the holder firmly 

 to the container with modeling clay. 

 This can be done only when both the 

 holder and the container are absolutely 

 dry. After the arrangement is made the 

 holder should be concealed with leaves 

 or other harmonizing material. 



The table should be attractively set 

 for family meals. If it is too much 

 work to wash and iron tablecloths at- 

 tractive place mats are available that can 

 be wiped clean. The family should use 

 their good linens and nice dishes often 

 enough so they feel at home with them 

 (Continued on page 50) 



IMnklng about buying toys tor the kids back home during lAA convention In Chicago 



are (left to righf) Mrs. Ronald Holt, Henry county; Mrs. Joseph Puetz, La Salle; and Mrs. 



Eidon Harms, Edwards. The taleiman I* Charles SarnoH. 



