WOMEN S RURAL ORGAXIZATIOISrS AND THEIR ACTIVITIES. 



Oklahoma: 



Pennsylvania — Continued. 



Texas — Continued, 



Grady- 



McKean 



Gregg 



Logan 



Montgomery 



Hidalgo 



Kiowa 



Westmoreland 



Lubbock 



Garfield 



Texas: 



Washington: 



Harmon 



Armstrong 



Grays Harl^or 



Pennsylvania: 



Bee 



Skagit 



Delaware 



Cameron 



Snohomish 



Erie 



Collin 



Yakima Valley 



Greene 



De Witt 





The clubs of the Department of Household Science of the Illinois 

 Farmers' Institute have county meetings. One of the national 

 associations has its work organized by counties. In State meetings 

 members and delegates from the same county are seated together 

 and reports of the work accomplished are made both by the county 

 presidents and by the State chairman. Rural clubs in the country 

 around the county seat frequently form a county organization to 

 cooperate in establishing a rest room for farm women or in working 

 for a woman county agent or a county appropriation for some other 

 educational or charitable purpose. 



ORGANIZED EFFORT OF WOMEN DEVELOPS HOME LIFE. 



Through baby-welfare conferences and contests arranged by clubs, 

 mothers study the development of their children and have the 

 opportunity of securing instruction on health subjects from the com- 

 petent physicians whose services for this purpose can be secured 

 without expense. The civic committee of the Montgomery County 

 Federation in Maryland arranged for such a welfare conference at 

 the county fair. Twenty-five children were examined, of whom 

 many were found to be subnormal, the physician reporting malnutri- 

 tion as one of the main causes of the trouble. Mothers could remedy 

 this to some extent by planning a better balanced diet for their 

 children. Several national organizations of women are encouraging 

 the celebration of baby week, which is already observed yearly by 

 hundreds of farm women's clubs. A club of country women living 

 near Renwick, Iowa, celebrated baby week by cooperating with two 

 other local women's clubs in holding a baby contest in Renwick. 

 The State Agricultural College, through its extension service, detailed 

 a physician to make mental and physical examinations, and a 

 specialist to speak on child welfare, and local physicians volunteered 

 their assistance. The rural women were notified by telephone, 

 notices were published in the local paper, and prizes of five-dollar 

 savings deposits were offered for the boy and girl between the ages of 

 six months and three years found to be in the best physical condition. 

 To defray incidental expenses each member of the club voluntarily 

 contributed 30 cents. The prizes, equipment, and rooms for exami- 



