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Homemaking Club members taking port in the Junior Programme at Western Fair in l940. Several of them are now Club Lenders. Mrs. Daniel Sherwood who. as a girl, went into uh work because her mother had died and she felt lC needed to learn more about how to carry her \pOl‘lSiblllllES as housekeeper for the family, says :11 now her daughter of fifteen with three years club work can sew as well as she (the mother) ii. \lrs. Harold Wilson says it was her club work that I. her started as an exhibitor at local fairs. It also ye hEr her start in sewing. She says “Now I make good many of my own clothes and all of my ughter’s except her last winter coat. I also make .pes and slip covers for our home." ‘virs. T. Gemmell who has a daughter taking her uh club unit, feels that a girl is more interested . learning the correct way of doing things when : is working with other girls, and in club pro- mme she learns the newest methods. Through her .wcrience as a club member she learns to co-operate h others, she overcomes any shyness she may Jr. and in giving comments on exhibits she gets ; tctice in speaking in public. \[iss May Hayward: “Homemaking Clubs give .3 of all religious denominations and old and new t radians a chance to work together. creating a l lcr understanding and a closeness that you don‘t t in schools because club work is non-competitive. t .-: clothing clubs, besides teaching a girl how to i x. and how to dress, give her an interest in the u .lity of material and the cost and durability." "rlrs. Harold Ceasar: “One of the greatest things l- inemaking clubs do for a girl is to encourage her 1 improve her own best work. Often the girl who i \ws nothing about sewing has to work harder than 1‘ one who has a natural knack with a needle. Al- I' ugh her finished work may not look as nice as I other girl‘s, she has really learned more and is g .;-n credit for it." airs. Delmar Skinner: “Two girls that I taut!“t in L‘ Us are now teaching home economics in high 5. 0015. Their interest began in our 4-H Home- n “ting projects." "tlrs. Kathleen Walt: “In homemaking clubs :1 girl ll. :ns modern methods of preparing foods, sewing :1 .l home decorating Sometimes she learns to make u of articles which might have been discarded. It I} 'ilso a great satisfaction to see a girl who is timid in making a public appearance gain confidence after some experience in club work.” Mrs. Gordon Robinson: “My daughter who was Tucntly married has told me that club work covers Putts of the actual work of homemaking that she WINTER l 960 did not get in home economics :1! high school." After reviewing the vulth of club work in teaching foods, clothing. home furnishing and the other units. Mrs. Grubbe says: "In club work it girl learns to finish what she set» out to do. i think it‘s a good training in discipline." Mrs Betty Clubine feels that one of the most important features of club work is that "it encourages a girl to start and finish :1 piece of work herself. Often a mother is so busy that it is easier and quicker to do the work herself than to tukc time to teach her daughter." Mrs, Howard Kellnm: “Every girl needs :1 club to belong to. u contrndcship and a sense of belong- ing. As :1 club girl i always felt a little sorry for the ‘poor city girls' who had no homemnking clubs." Mrs. Alex Ormsby: “I was the local leader for our lust club 'Mcat in the Menu' and even though I hurl been keeping house for twentytu‘o years I leurncd many things about meat and meat cuts that] didn't know. it is intcrcxting now to hour my own daughters naming the cuts of mean us they see them, in the store or in pictures in mugu/incs." Mrs. H. Townsend: “Personally I daily use the knowledge I gained its :1 club member in curing for my family and taking it part in the life of at rural community.“ Mrs. Marilyn Smith: "As :1 leader I can see that girls in u Homemaking Club learn to work together and to ‘get nlong'. This is quite evident right now as I have twenty-seven girls making cotton dresses. My tixsistant and l have found the older girls more than willing to help the younger ones.“ Mrs. Agnes Foster: "What does Homemaking Club work do for a girl? A girl who has completed the units required for provincial honours should be a girl poised, \vellrgroomed, capable of preparing and serving food, at ease in entertaining, in conversation, in making introductions, able to choose a wardrobe and make parts of it, to decorate a home and to be a good citizen. These are the fields opened up to a girl in our Homemaking Club programme.” Mrs. Harry Gorslinc: “l have two daughters in club work and one of the best things I see arising from their training is the confidence it gives them in baking and sewing. They will do many things which I would never have thought of trying before I was married and hztd made many errors in both fields. especially in sewing. Their club experience was a great help to them when they started at high school. Their training in Foods and Clothing helped in their home economics classes: and the things they had learned about etiquette gave them confidence 23