FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1939
YE FLAPDOODLE
By The
Swashbuckler
There are various types of
suckers in this world. One type
reads this column. Another
plays slot-machines. The latter
is the biggest sucker, of course.
The latter type of sucker
shoots away 75c in nickles, then
wins a dime and figures he has
come out on top. He has his fa
vorite machine, usually the five
inning, six-run baseball type. This
is the one into which he feeds his
money. This is the one that
makes him a sucker.
Suckers have their own person
al ways of shooting the machines.
Some contend that a slight jiggle
aids in depositing the winning run
upon the scoreboard, while others
stand back and let nature take its
course. Both types lose nine
times out of ten.
While we’re on the way differ
ent people play games we can
take in bowling. This sport at
tracts both fat and thin, tall and
short, nuts and nuts.
The women usually bowl a
very lady-like game. They grasp
the ball firmly, shut their eyes,
bounce it down the alley, and
hope for the best. And so does
the owner of the alley. They
score anywhere from 37 to 77.
Then comes the gals who for
get their pride, their modesty,
and anything else necessary, and
let go with a mighty swing. These
outdo the men with their scores
and end up useless for work
around the house.
The men are contortionists. No
two, three, or a dozen bowl alike.
Some believe a curve is best, but
the majority stick to the old-fash
ioned fast ball. The ball that in
vites the most attention is the
drop that hits the alley and
bounces eight to ten inches in the
air as it continues its way home.
Some gents think it is the bet
ter plan to plant the feet firmly in
<*ne place, roll the ball easily, and
then wait five minutes until the
iiall ei+her knocks down some
pihs 1 oh rolls in the gutter.
Others stand back near the
front door, aim with one eye,
take a running start, manage to
rid themselves of the ball, and
skid half-way down the alley as a
finishing touch. The ball smacks
the pins, hits the end of the alley,
jumps into the air, kicks up its
heels and starts after the pin
boy.
It is not official, but some have
reported that if the ball hits the
pin-boy the bowler gets fifteen
extra points. Nearly all the time,
however, the pin-boy is to frisky
to have a ball bounced off his
head.
It’s a great game, anyway, and
a very good muscle stiffener.
Ihwlingly yours,
THE SWASHBUCKLER.
North Carolina was the birth
place of three presidents—Jackson,
Polk and Johnson.
THE COUNTRY WOMAN’S
COLLEGE
(The following article is a paper
read over WPTF a few days ago
by Mrs. McGinnis, Wake County
Home Demonstration Agent).
“I w r ant to go to this school they
are going to have up at the college
at Raleigh,” said Mrs. Rhodes to
her husband after reading an ar
ticle inviting farm women to come
to the home demonstration short
course to held at the State Ag
ricultural College in June, 1925.
‘‘Why do you want to go?” said
Mr. Rhodes. ‘‘Well they are going
to teach us farm women how to
cook and make our own clothes and
a lot of other things that I want
to know and I can learn how if I
go.”
“You can cook well enough to
suit me,” said Mr. Rhodes. ‘‘You
don’t have to go to any school to
learn.”
“Yes,” said she, “but I can’t
cook well enough to make it inter
esting to me and I’ve made up my
mind I am going. I always have
wanted to go to college and now
I have the chance I’m going to do
it.”
And Mrs. Rhodes was one of a
group of 55 farm women who came
to the first short course for farm
women which the Division of Home
Demonstration work held at the
North Carolina College of Agricul
ture and Engineering. It was de
' signed to stimulate work already in
operation in the counties and to in
terest other women in what home
demonstration work could do for
them. The program arranged for
women to register on Monday in
demonstration classes where food
preparation, clothing and many
other things about how to make
the home more attractive and com
fortable; how to get the best out
of the dollar; how to use time to
advantage and something about
care of the child were taught.
There was also gardening, poul
try work, and how to plant the
home grounds and each woman Was
asked to make a selection of two
subjects. Some chose agricultural
subjects but these were not for Mrs.
Rhodes, she knew definitely wh?t
she desired and made a choice of
cooking and clothing without hesi
tation.
Mrs. Rhodes was much like Mrs.
Nash, another farm woman attend
ing from Franklin County, who
said: “You know we have to eat
and wear clothes before we do any
thing else and I’m going to learn
how r to cook my food and make my
clothes first.”
“I have always wanted to go to
college,’ said she, “but I was mar
ried when I was 14 years old, and
my husband was 50. One day I
went to school with my books and
lunch and that night I got married.
I was just cradle snatched.
“My husband told me I could
keep on going to school if I wanted
to, so I took my books over to my
new home but somehow I never got
time to study them, and later on
children began to come and that
meant staying home and minding
them.”
As she told me the date of her
marriage and birth, I was shocked
to find she was onl 29 years old
for fifteen years of monotonous
existance had left their mark and
you would not have suspected she
was younger than the other middle
aged women around her.
‘‘My husband did not much want
me to come,” she continued, ‘‘but I
always have wanted to go to college
and I said to myself now is my
chance.
“It began to look though like I
couldn’t get away after all, there
were so many things to rise and
smite me, but Mr. Rhodes at last
gave his consent and made ar
rangements for an automobile to
take me.
‘‘l had arranged for some one to
help with the children while I was
away but I was holding my breath
for fear something would happen to
THE ZEBULON RECORD
keep me from going and something
very nearly did. Just as I started
to get in the car on my way to
Raleigh one of the farm hands yell
ed, ‘the pigs is out’ and I thought,
O Lord do I have to stop and help
catch those pigs? But I kept say
ing if I don’t go now I won’t ever
go so I just waved my hand and
shouted, I hope you catch the pigs
before I get back, I’m going to
school.”
Mrs. Rhodes came from a com-1
munity which had no home demon
stration club nearer than two to
three miles, and she had never felt
that she could take the time to in
vestigate what organized women in
that neighborhood were doing.. It
was ,therefore, very interesting to
her to see other eager adult stu
dents arrive at college in automo
biles, by bus, on the train and some
in school trucks loaned by the coun
ty boards of education and she
made friends with all of them. Par
ticularly interesting to her were the
thirteen farm women who came
from Halifax County in a. school
truck driven by a volunteer hus
band because some of them too had
experienced difficulty in adjusting
affairs at home. They started from
the county-seat in the early morn
ing gathering Women along the
way as they proceeded, and one
would-be student, a little woman of
sixty-five, remarked after the 110
mile drive to Raleigh: “It wasn’t
so bad but my knees do feel mighty
stiff.”
It is not easy for farm women
to leave home; children must be
provided for, household work turn
ed over to some one else and the
hundred and one things tnat only
mother can do must be left sus
pended until she gets back.
“If the home agent had not per
suaded me that I would be a much
more valuable person in my family
if I got away and brushed wits
with other women,” said one moth
er, “I think I would still be letting
family cares fill my world. As it
is I get all the joy of being in col
lege with other women and I did
not think it was in me to romp and
play those foolish games we have
every night.”
It was very plain that Mrs
Rhodes enjoyed every minute of the
time she spent at State College.
Her fellow students reported that
she was always the last to go to
sleep and that they always dozed
off and left her talking. She was
first up in the morning also and
nothing escaped her.
The members of the Raleigh Ki
wanis Club, interested in its coun
try women, invited the six Wake
County women attending the short
course to lunch with them one day
during Farm and Home Week at
Sir Walter Hotel.
Each of the guests was asked to
tell how and why she came to State
College and Mrs. Rhodes’ story was
so direct and gripping that the club
men voted to finance the trip of all
Wake County representatives each
BOWL
HIGH SCORE WINS
WEEKLY AT
Gill’s Bowling
Alleys
IN BOTH LADIES’
AND GENTS’ DIVI
SIONS.
Plenty Os Electric Fans
ZEBULON, N. C.
year, but they stipulated that Mrs.
Rhodes should always be one of the
group.
On Mrs. Rhodes’ return home she
made a visit to the Wakelon home
demonstration club in her neighbor
hood at its next meeting, walking
two miles there and two miles back,
to tell the members what she had
gotten at the college and what it
meant to her. She urged them all
to go the next year and they in
vited her to join the club and work
with them which she did and it is
worth recording that for the next
five years Mrs. Rhodes never miss
ed a meeting at Wakelon.
Colored Column
By AGNES GRESHAM
Mrs. • Ella Patton has returned
home from the hospital where she
went for an operation.
Miss Joella Christmas is sick.
Lucille Payne and Mrs. Pine are
out after being confined to their
homes for a week.
Mrs. Alice Payne of New York
is visiting her sister, Lucille.
Larkin Hopkins of New York is
visiting his father Percy Hopkins.
Mr. and Mrs. Mary Dunston Set
lers of Maryland and her brother
and wife, Mr .and Mrs. Hammons
of Louisburg, were in Zebulon vis
iting friends Sunday.
DEATH
Mr. Sims was taken very sick at
his home last Sunday night and
died before the doctor could come.
He was buried in Spartanburg, S.
C. He leaves a wife and three child
ren.
CHURCH NEWS
There will be a business meeting
of the Baptist church on August
2; preaching on Sunday. All mem
bers are asked to be present. The
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