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Carry-Over from Club Work How Experience in 4-H Homemaking Clubs Helps In Homemaking men‘s Institute convention, two young mar- ried women who had had several years'in 44-1 Homemaking Club work told how their train- ing in club work had helped them as homemakers and mothers. And it seemed to Us that it might be interesting to leaders who are giving their services to this work, to Women's Institutes that are supporting it, and to club members them- selves, to know more about what an experience in club work may mean to a girl when she takes on the responsibilities of a home of her own. So we asked a number of married women who had been active in homemaking clubs to tell us whether their club work had helped them as homemakers and in what ways it had helped. Here are some of their replies: Two YEARS AGO at the Central Ontario Wo- Help in Homemaking Skills Mrs. D. W. MacGregor, who completed ten club units before she was married and continued to take Provincial Honours afterwards, says: "Club training certainly puts a girl on the right track when it comes time to take her place as a home- maker and a mother . . . It is through my club experience that I am able to sew many things for my home and family. I feel confident when I select materials, patterns or clothing and just knowing how to care for clothing is a wonderful pmuysaver . . . The cook book I started in the unit ‘The Club Girl Entertains' is a prized posses- sion. Of course it has had many additions but the basic things learned in the club are still the old faithfuls . . . My notes on Home Decoration and Social Etiquette, I have transferred to a scrap book and adding to this book has become a hobby. It is used not only by myself but also by my friends when they are looking for some:hing for their parties or special meetings . . . The first aid kit compiled in ‘The Club Girl Stands On Guard' unit is right in my kitchen cupboard and very use- ful in case of accidents both large and small." Planning meals is one of the club subjects especially appreciated by Mrs. Catherine Keys. Mrs. Keys says: l“It is both interesting and worth while to plan your meals one or two weeks ahead. In doing this you can determine what foods you will need to balance your family's diet and what you will have to buy. It isn’t until you are on your own and haven't your mother to ask ‘What should we have for dinner?’ that you realize how impor- tant this training has been. This idea of planning ahead was one very important thing learned in club work." Mrs. Ray Le Palm makes a special point of the thrift value of the food clubs and garden clubs. She says: “I still use the garden Club directions for cooking and canning vegetables. I have been married eight and a half years and have yet to 16 buy my first jar of pickles and have bout um, one jar of marmalade. This year 1 pm .5 “\le four hundred jars of fruit, vegetables, in.» illltl jam. I have found the ‘Meat in the km”: A profitable. economical unit as meat set-m ct, in. the most expensive part of the meal .tv thy” a member of the family had to have a \pi .i.,[ for four months following an illness, 1 di : i...“ what I would have done without the n - w i had in ‘The Milky Way,.” Mrs. Le Palm t. thin. children, and because of the start she go. .7“. ing in her club work she makes all then rm as well as her own. Mrs. R. B. Johnson stresses the impiju ,,[ the nutrition learned in food clubs, th m. standing that deficiencies in diet can cans .mt complications, and having a practical ltri lEt‘ of how to plan nutritious meals. Also. it “When company comes to our house I no qualms about my food service. Thro- :nh training I know what is correct so I can it liltl enjoy myself.” About the club training in . rig, Mrs. Johnson says: “Clothing a family [it Nit. can be a real problem if all clothes musl l- on ready made. I have been grateful. times t :1; that I was taught to sew. Incidentally. aft, years in club work, first as a member, is leader, I am still learning ‘new tricks it. mid trade‘â€"new ways of construction. 'ml methods that really save time. It gives 0. L‘i' ing of pride to have a schoobage boy m. make my shirts. I like them better'." Mrs. Marie Burrows, who has COmplc‘lm :n units, in two of which she acted as lean m. “Having been a homemaker for two yen can really appreciate the basic knowledgr ml through club work. A foundation in ain‘t aspect of homemaking can be had in or 'tI' other club unit. I feel that homemaking Li 'l. it' taken seriously, should result in the ab = HI new bride’s sobs as well as hubby‘s indie-t ” With rather special appreciation of i “kl clubs, Mrs. Irene Wellman feels that the 1 "*1 important units are “The Milky W3!" 1 “it Cereal Shelf" as milk and cereals are ' \“il‘ most likely to be overlooked in meal l-‘lU graduate of garden clubs, Mrs. Wellmu M" worries about having a variety 0f VEEL‘M “he says: "All through the summer they cm ’9‘“ from the garden and during the winter. “‘6 ~1th cellar. The garden clubs are mainly rc- for my willingness to try new Vegfllitl" any]! flowers and for my interest in landscaping wh- This mother of two children finds that unit the family budget considerably by mal' ‘Wh lhing; as dresses. pleated skirts. trouser M“: jackets, all the family's sleeping gal‘filt' ‘1'“ some of her own clothes. She finds that “ . ‘9‘" ing she learned in clothing clubs give liei .wlit'dt'k‘ to venture into more difficult lines. 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