WOMEN S RURAL ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR ACTIVITIES. 
for cooking foods while 
attending to other duties. 
Another exhibit was a 
homemade white-enam- 
eled iceless refrigerator 1 
designed to save unneces- 
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, 111. 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- 
i See footnote 3, p.age 6. 
