WORK OF COUNTY
, 4-H CLUB GIRLS
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jyjjsi Laura Howard, Home
Demonstration Agent,
Teaches Members to
Make Attractive „
_ Pieces
r (By Maude Minish Sutton)
"Playing House" is the most fasci
nating game that little giris play. The
instinct for homd creation is born
in them and its vital elemental ap
peal makes all their other games
seem hopelessly tame and artificial,
jfiss Laura Howard, home demon
stration agent for Rutherford county,
makes use of this home-making in
stinct in her work with her 4-H club
girl?.
Pretty Furniture
These girls are designers and
making, under her direction, some
extremely pretty and attractive fur
niture for their own rooms. The fur
niture is durable, practical and artis
tic. It adds comfort and charm to the
homes in which it is used. The mater
ials of which it is made are so inex
pensive that they are easily within
reach of any of the 305 girls in Miss
Howard's eleven clubs and the pride
that they take in their pretty dressed
up, rooms is most refreshing.
A girl's room is far more interest
ing to her when it is an expression
of her own creative effort. Miss
Howard recognizes this fact and, as
far as possible, she lets each girl plan
and design her own furniture. The
success of this method was demon
strated in a booth at the Rutherford
County Fair, in which the 4-H girls
from all the clubs exhibited some of
their furniture. The display of this
work attracted a great deal of favor
able comment.
Old People Wonder
I wish I'd had the chance that
girl's have this day and time", sigh
ed one middle-aged woman as she
regarded thoughtfully the pretty
artistic display. "There's no sense in
any girl who comes up today not
knowing how to do anything there is
to do. If I could have made pretty
things like that when I was first mar
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Spanish Shawls j |
Leather Handbags j
| Gloves, Hosiery and j
! Fitted Cases |
| Silk Underwear |
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j ried, it would have been a sight of '
1 satisfaction to me."
What I like about it," her neigh- j
bor replied,"is that the agent teaches
them how to make use of things j
they've got on hand. My Bessie
never comes home from one of the ;
club meetings that she's not got ;
isome plan to fix up something we've'
| got on hand,"
I Ruth took grandma's old bureau j
land bed that we'd set out in the j
j granary, and made some rugs and i
j curtains and a'screen, painted
couple of old chairs and made some |
cushions for them and her room is
the prettiest room in the house," a 1
third woman said with great pride. -
'She never spent five dollars and I'd •
• declare I'd take company in;
. that room than in my parlor."
j Girls Make Display
j Miss Howard came up then and
| showed the woman the different ar- I
| tides in the booth. Three of them j
J avowed their intention of making
I some of the articles displayed, and !
j the cheery little home agent told \
them she'd be glad to help them j
plan the pieces. !
The booth was one of the regular
| spaces in the long exhibit hall. The
| girls had covered its rough sides with i
j builders paper and one of the mem
| bers had lent her own curtains, made
;at a club meeting. They were made i
lof unbleached sheeting bought at a 1
| remnant sale at one of the big tex- |
■ tile mills in the county. They were
! draped with the daintiest tie backs
imaginable. These tie backs of hand
made flowers in exquisite shades,
were also made of remnants from j
i the same mill. The little girl who had i
I
made these attractive hangers of her j
room had spent less than a dollar;
and secured an usually beautiful ef- j
feet.
Under the double windows was a i
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chest that, aside from its conven-
ience and usefulness, was an orna- i
ment to the room in which it belongs.
jlt was made of a long goods box, j
| lined with builder's paper and thin
; cedar chips had been placecf inside j
I the lining. The chest was upholster- j
•ed in shirting from Avondale. In the j
I room of the little girl who made it, :
| the chest sets under two windows
[that overlook the orchard, with a far
(view of the Chimney Rock mountains
jas a background. With some richly!
THE FOKEST'CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1928
j colored pillows of Spindale Rayon it
; forms a window seat where the little
| owner may read, study or dream.
Screen and Chair
? The most unusual group in the
booth was a screen and chair. The
I screen was a triumph of inventive-
I ness. It was made of three panels of,
j beaver board tawed in attractive .
jflhaperi and put together with brass
I hinges. The girl who made the screen 1
i has a good deal of talent in painting
! and plans to study interior decorat- i
I ing. She wanted to paint a design on
1 her screen and had no paints. A pack
age of Easter egg dyes for paint and
. a sure sense of color and line result
j ed in a lovely screen that serves as a
| background for her pretty chair and
.conceals her washstand.
The chair, made of an orange
; crate, and upholstered in chambray,
was also attractive and quaint. With
| a foot stool of a square block with
doorsteps for feet and the most bril
liant scrap of rayon taffeta for up
iholstei'y, this particular group was
| the most effective thing in the booth,
j But, the girl who made the screen,
! has an unusual gift.
! It is the fact that these directed
group of girls are able, because of
jthe guidance of the home agent, to
! find an outlet for their talent and
: energies in creative home making
jthat makes this work so worth while,
i Miss Howard is doing wonderful
jwork with these Rutherford county
girls, and she is one of a host of
home demonstration agents who are
giving just such sane, wholesome,
common-sense, leadership to girls in
; the rural sections of the county. It
»would be hard to find a more con
jstructive piece of legislation on our
! national statute books than the
j Smith-Lever bill, or a finer body of
i woman than the home demonstration
i agents in America.
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Inexpensive Things
There was a little dressing table
jin the booth with a stool that
j matched it. These two pretty articles
.were made by some sixth grade girls
'at Bostic and they used a goods box
I a nail keg, a small mirror and a few
'yards of gingham to make them.
This group also showed inventiveness
and skill for they had made two
colonial candle brackets of wood and
put them on either side of the mirror,
i The brackets stained a dark color
, and holding rose-colored candles
jgave a quaint individual charm to the
j owner's room.
None of the furniture is common
place and in most instances, it is used
in rooms that without it would be
both drab and commonplace. The
girls are encouraged to experiment,
I Miss Howard directs their experi
menting unobstrusively and lets them
do their own designing whenever
possible, so that they have all the
| thrill and joy of creative accomplish
j ment. Their intimate possessions take
j an added value and meaning to them
| when housed in an attractive room
which they planned, worked for and
j made.
Good For The Soul
A 4-H club meeting in Ruther
ford county would be good for the
immortal soul of the most pessimistic
critic of the younger generation. The
i most convenient and practical article
in the booth was made out on high
way 19 one July afternoon. Twenty
i eight girls had assembled when the
! home agent got there. Gay greetings
and happy discussions of the club
camp planned for August took up
a few moments and the work began.
I A discussion of the piece of fur
! niture to be made brought out dif
j ferent ideas, and the girl who was
'hostess and Miss Howard assembled
the materials. A goods box, a small j
can of ten cent store paint, a strip j
of two by two lumber, some nails, \
j and tacks, a hammer, a saw and sev- j
eral bundles of remnants from the
county mills. It was most interesting
to se how deftly the girls were guid- (
ed into making the right selection of
material and color to be used in the
(display and how tactfully the "jobs"
. were apportioned to the group.
" On Carpentry Work
Two girls were assigned the car
penter work, and in the most mat
ter of fact way imaginable they went
about sawing the lumber, nailing on
hinges and putting a shelf, a towel
rack, a soap box, and glass holder in
side the box. The girl who had assem
bled the hardware, remarked as she
screwed a mirror in the boxlid with
toothbrush holders:
"Necessity is the mother of inven
tion. I walked around in the 10-cent
store a half hour before I saw any
screws that would hold this mirror
in place and look well."
In an hour's time, the curtains for
the washstand and stool were hem
med and hung, the tops were padded
and covered, the inside was painted
white and left to dry. The completed
furniture fitted into the girl's little
' room and added much to its beauty
► and attractiveness.
|MRS. ZULA GUFFEY
| DIED SATURDAY
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; Spindale Woman Succumbs to'
, Complication of Ailments J
—Funeral Sunday
j Spindale, Dec. 17.—Mrs. Zula Guf
j fey died at the home of her daugh-!
I ter here, Mrs. Lydia Souther Satur- ■
day night. Mrs. Guffey had been in \
ill health for sometime, suffering!
from a complication of ailments.
Funeral services were held Sunday ]
afternoon at 3:30 at Pisgah Metho-j
jdist church, in upper Rutherford
: county. Rev. W, A. Barber, of the
, Spindale Methodist church, being in
' charge.
j
| Mrs. Guffey is survived by two
| daughters, Mrs. Lydia Souther and
I Miss Ruth Guffey. Her husband pre
ceded her to the grave about fifteen
years ago.
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:GASTONIA LOSES TO
J FOREST CITY 28 - 21
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jHi swept the fast Gastonia hard
' wood quint off their feet in a hard
; fought game on Gastonia's court 28-
; 21. The game was hard fought from
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•game. Whitlock and McKeithan play
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i open on December 31st as far as is
j known now.
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