Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Winter 1959, page 18

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ing, my experience in the project ‘Cot'on Acces- sories for the Club Girl‘s Bedroom‘ was very USL- fut. The experience in the cooking clubs was core tainly a help in satisfying the appetite of a hungry young farmer for three square meals a day. These clubs gave assistance in planning interesting, noun ishing and economical meals. The Clothing clubs: were the beginning of my sewing and I now make practically all my own clothes, especially my bet- ter dresses. My three~year-old son has made good use of madeâ€"over clothing for everyday wear as well as shirts and play suits." Mrs. Mitchell com- pleted twelve club units and it now the leader of the local club. Mrs S‘ewart Greer had not taken any club work before she was married and she says in sew- ing she “could only sew a straight seam, perhaps not too straight at that." “Then,” she said "the first year I was married they started a club in the neighborhood. ‘Cottons May Be Smart' and they asked me if I wouldn't like to take it. I didn’t even have a sewing machine. but there was a sale in the next town and my husband and I went to it and bought a machine for $20. I am still using it and it works just fine. I joined the club and no one knows how much I learned from this unit. I have taken all the other units sinceâ€"clothing. cooking, gardening and all. I made a suit in one club, several dresses in others a bedspread and other bedroom accessories in ano'hei'. [ have done all my own sewing ever since and l sew quite a lot for my relatives." Mrs. Mary Lou Robinson. a married woman who also works outside her home finds the “short cuts" taught in club work a great help. As a result of her training in garden clubs she does all her canning of fruits and vegetables and “freezes as many as space limi‘s allow." In the club on "Supper Dishes" she learned to make a number of dishes “that can be prepared the evening before and popped into the oven" as soon as she comes home from work. The lessons in darning have been put to use. too. Mrs. Robinson says: "I don‘t think my husband knows about the dams in his socks: at least he hasn‘t complained yet." The Intangibles “The training given girls in 4-H Homemaking Clubs is invaluable not only in their homes but in all life experience." says Mrs. Johnson. "They South Cochrone girls. Ann Wright and Shillt garb“ give c: first aid demonstration in their 4AH Holt mug-mu Club's proiect "The Club Girl Stands On On: 7 acquire a fellowship. a feeling that lhc‘. .l m walk alone but with others facing the saint pm. ences and problems. so they are better lam-d to meet the problems of life later on. .\ rrnrl in the Church and the Women‘s limit rm leadership training I received in club Wt,‘ rigipr me tremendously. I may make mlstukcx I not may be righ'ed. Then. too. I enioy wort . mrh people. My leaders in club work hate u .rll that is right and good. They have had ‘ unit and a youthful attitude. 1 am most gra' rm» such leaders." Mrs. Burrows says: “Outside her In tln former club girl will feel at home in win and community groups: many of these girl» ' h taking places of leadership in the thli' tr.- stitute and in farm groups and they wrll l war qualified to be either a leader or a follw ‘ i‘L' cause of their experience in the club pro. min and, speaking for my own district, bet , u: have had such industrious. dedicated lu.n| Mrs, Wellman testifies: “Most certain l‘m'llllt' an officer in 4.H Homemaking Clubs ha lptt! me to be ready to accept offices in senior “l‘V And Mrs. Keys suggests that this along tilt.- Alma Hendrick of county comments on he Homemaking Club's e at the Western Ontone in F HOME AND coUNTRV

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