WOMEN S EURAL OEGANIZATIONS AND THEIR ACTIVITIES. 



for cooking foods while 

 attending to other duties. 

 Another exhibit was a 

 homemade white-enam- 

 eled iceless refrigerator^ 

 designed to save inuieces- 

 sary steps and lifting in 

 putting food into the well 

 for cooling. These and 

 similar devices free the 

 home maker from much 

 unnecessary routine work 

 and give her more oppor- 

 tunity to attend to other 

 home problems. 



Clubs organized for 

 purely social purposes 

 often become instru- 

 mental in interesting the 

 members in home eco- 

 nomics and community 

 work. This is illustrated 

 by a social club near 

 Wyanet,Ill. After hold- 

 ing social meetings for 

 two years in the homes 

 of the members they re- 

 organized as the Wyanet 

 Household Science Club. 

 A five-day school of do- 

 mestic science has been 

 secured from the univer- 

 sity, at a cost of about 

 $15; papers on home 

 topics are read at the 

 meetings, with an average 

 attendance of 45 ; and oc- 

 casional outside lecturers 

 are secured. Figure 3 

 shows an afternoon joint 

 meeting of two women's 

 rural clubs. 



Such activities as these 

 reduce the sense of drudg- 

 ery inevitable to the wo- 



1 See footnote 3, page 6. 



