(Homemaken^ (PaaeA
Clothing Work Brings
Opportunity to 4H Girls
Naomi E. Shotmaktr, Woodbine,
is pictured h?r? in tha outfit
in whioh sho won national stylo
r?vAi o honors in 1933 at Chicago. Tho
coat? A total of $2141 with all ac
CMioriot.
By L. E. TROEGER
EVERY girl loves pretty things to
wear. It's a craving found in all
races and climes. The American farm
girl is no exception. No depression will
crush her desire for ornamentation.
This love of finery, when not satisfied,
is pathetic. It cannot be swept aside
with an amused smile or a stern man
ner. It may induce a feeling of inferi
ority; that her life is not worth while,
or, that ihe has 110 chance in the world.
Many girls leave home under such cir
cumstances ; others become serious fam
uy problems.
(>irb and their
families are being
saved from this sit
uation through 4-H
Club clothing proj
ects.
The girl enroUs
in a group of her
own age and inclin
ations. She chooses
to carry a project or
"study" in sewing.
She first learns how
to lew by hand ;
later by machine.
How to design ami
cutMirst such simple
things as a towel or
napkin. There are
no 4-H Club dues.
Her local leader
gives her time free.
She in turn is super
vised by the county
home demonstration
or club agent. If the
girl's club entails
any expenses it is
becatise members
choose to. But such
amounts are small
and the girls
through their club
projects have a num
ber of ways open to
raise money.
Sew Their Way To
Feminine Happiness
During the first year, the girl learns
the fundamentals in sewing. In another
year or two, the girl, if she has been
industrious, is ready to make part or all
of her own clothes.
A girl can leam to launder her clothes
to make . them show to best advantage,
and to -remodel and obtain garments that
are useful and beautiful. All this before
she is out of her 'teens.
Many a club girl after a few years of
4-H training becomes independent in
matters of her clothes, evm to paying for
thein.
Girls become amazingly resourceful
through 4-H clothing training. Laurine
Varn. a South Carolina 4-H'er exhibited
a dress at her state show which was so
good it was entered in the national show
in Chicago in 1933. A reporter described
it: "Dainty as a humming bird's plum
age, bat not fussy. If you saw it in a
store window you would think the fab
ric something new and fashionable."
This dress was made out of sugar bags
and it cost just 52 cents.
Another girl won first at the state
fair, and it helped her Win state honors
and a free trip to the National Club
Congress in Chicago where more than
1, (xxi outstanding 4-H Club members of
the nation assemble annually. The girl
remodeled an outfit. This was its his
tory : Her black skirt was once her moth
er's woolen dress, then her sister's jum
per. Her white vestee blouse was once
a skirt, then a light jacket and pillow
cover. Her black %pd whitr swagger
coat once belonged to an aunt, then to
her daughter, and before the club* girl
got it, it was made into a short full coat
for her sister.
Kvery clothing club girl has an ambi
tion to enter a product of her handwork
in competition with other girls. County
These 4-H Club Girls, EImimt
Acker, Junction City, Km, and
Alexandria Hoevel,Creve C#Mir, Mo,
demonstrate the new and eld in
girls' tailored costumee. They were
among the headliners in the 1936
national style revue at the 4-H Club
Cengrees at Chicago*
achievement days
are held for exhibits
of 4-H Club work
in which cash or
merchandise prizes
or both are offered.
The .National Style
Revue for 4-H out
fits offers a medal
to county cham
pions. The county
champion is eligible
to model her out
fit in the state show.
The winner receives
a free trip to the na
tional contest held
in Chicago. Compe
tition in four classes
of outfits is provid
ed, and national
prizes awarded.
Prizes are provided
by the Chicago Mail
Order Co., which
sponsors this content
to aid the 4-H
movement.
The contest is
conducted by the
Nationel Commit
tee on Boys and
Girls Club Work
in co-operation with
state, federal and
local club leaders.
TImn photographs show the improvon
R. L. Gillen, Whit* County, Tenn. Left, belov
Mrs. Gillen ia shown preparing a meal. Lef
for dining room during warm months. RigM
large tank at roar of house. Visw of shrubs
low: View of concrete walk running from G
house, vegetable garden, poultry yard and
WITH 512,101 improvement* made in 29.44#
in the state are now looking forward to
oli?-m?d thi* year from April 26 to May 2. Los'
questionnaires sent out by Miss IJUian Keller,
ment specialist. Interest in rural home rimprov<
Better Homes Week, it was pointed out by Misi
For 1936, the four district home agents wil
Week. These will be: Miss Mildred Jacocka for
Tennessee. Miss liema Finger for the Chattamx
Tennessee diatrict.
In 1935. running water waa installed in 2.94
In all. 24.423 homes were thoroughly cleaned. F
reflnished furniture and installation or rearrani
srreened in. Yards were cleaned, gardens wer
ahruhs were set out. vacant lota cleaned and ou
Better Homes Week in Tennessee also was
grounds, school grounds, cemeteries, church gr<
In some counties, home demonstration cluba nu
and gardens. Four-H- Club girls took an**^ tlvi
Reports from the 71 counties taking a<
showed that improvements were ma<le In 11,525
see homes and 7,917 Fast Tennessee homes.
SHORT STEPS
By Virginia Lee
To keep rag or hooked rugs from
"skidding" on hardwood floors sew a
fruit jar rubber at corners on the under
side.
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Keep a bottle of milk of magnesia on
the kitchen shelf. It will prevent blis
ters if applied immediately.
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An old fashioned corn popper is fine
for roasting weinies over a fire. This
keep* them from falling in the ashes.
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Where there are several children in
the family ? -to simplify sewing, ordering
clothes, etc., keep a card for each child
giving complete measurement for shoe*,
dresses, etc.
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Starch tea towels and they will not
leave lint on dishes.
Let's
So
Bv Makjokii
A. FTER dinnrr mints arc pleasant
and attractive to serve any time, par
ticularly at the close of the main meal
of the day. The following recipe has
been approved by the home economics
department of the Kentucky College of
Agriculture:
Ingredients: 2 cups sugar, cup
water, 4 tablespoons out
ter, 2 tablespoons vinegar,
and IO drops of pepper
mint.
Mix sugar, water, but
ter and vinegar together.
Stir until sugar dissolves,
wipe edges of kettle with
a moist cloth. Boil rap
idly and cook without
stirring until the hard ball
stage is reached; that is,
until the mixture will
form a hard ball. Pour
onto an oiled platter.
When cool enougn to nanuie aua pep
permint and pull. When stiff, stretch
candy on table into a rope, and cut in
one-inch lengths. Wrap in oiled paper.
This recipe makes 100 pieces.
Lollypops
.Both children and grown-ups often
like iollypops. This recipe is unusually
good :
Ingredients: 3 cups of sugar, 3/3 cup
of white corn syrup, one cup hot water,
Yt teaspoonful of oil of peppermint, and
.coloring material.