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so she was both leader and member for fifteen units. Mrs. Mathers adds: “Then I got married and I have been a leader off and on as I can manage it." Club work of various sorts is part of the life of Mrs. S. Mactaggart's family. HEr husband leads in the agricultural clubs and their three children all take part. In addition to feeling that it is a duty to see that young people get all the education possible in this field, Mrs. Mactaggart says, “It is a great education to be a leader of a girls' homemaking club as you are working with members of the Home Economic» Service staff who are all the time gutdtng you and keeping you up-to-date with the newest and latest ideas. You also meet other leaders who may have good suggestions." What Homemaking Club Work Means To a Girl We have a rather dramatic example of what a girl can learn in a club in this story from Mrs. Bert French. “We had seventeen girls in the project ‘The Club Girl Stands On Guard’, and we sometimes wondered if the younger girls were getting as much out of it as they should, or if we were getting everything over to them. At one of our meetings we were explaining and trying to demonstrate what should be done in the event of choking. At school a few days later, one of our youngest girls, Donna, told that she had certainly profited by belonging to the club. She said when her mother was at the barn one morning her baby sister, creeping on the floor, somehow found a marble. Donna told her to drop it but she popped it into her mouth and it choked her. Donna said she knew she couldn‘t get her mother in time but she remembered what we had told her. So she grabbed the baby by the feet and slapped her on the back and ottt flew the marble. We felt that our work had been worth while,“ Here are some of the leaders' comments on what 4-H Homemaking Clth work means to a girl: Mrs. John Moyer: "When I started married life I realized that I had a storEhouse of valuable infor- mation from my club work and I knew it was ac- curate. The Food units were especially helpful when I had to plan and prepare special diets for some of my family. The training in club work is a great help in making the sort of home that the whole family will enjoy and will want to share with their friends." Mrs. Stanley May: “Every time I prepare a meal, that “Food Guide to Health' seems to come to mind and I hope it is the same with the girls. Club work teaches a girl something about how to spend money wisely. And every skill she acquires gives her confi- dence in herself. One little twelve»year-old, after a very trying time for both of us getting a wool skirt finished, proudly said: ‘That‘s the first thing I ever made that I could wear‘." Mrs. Gordon Drummond: “In our club girls from different schools, different religions and different nationalities have mixed very successfully. I think this is a wonderful training." Mrs. N. A. Fletcher: “Club work is a good exper- ience in co-operation with others, as two or more girls Usually work together on a demonstration; the exhibits, demonstrations and skits are planned by the whole club and most members have a part in pre- paring them; and the girls with more experience are generally very helpful to the leaders in showing others how to do something which they have already learned, such as a new stitch in sewing." 22 Mrs. Gordon MacDonald: “The things ledfmd . club work can be used by a girl whether she ,hoo in to becomes a homemaker, career girl or lmth.“ its Mrs, S. Whittington: “I think of club \tttrl do 0f Young PEOPIE'S Church work. You liw...‘ a: I a part of it first; then no one knows hon “his good and the guidance will go.” E Mrs. Roy Westlake: “Homemaking elm. my J girl the poise that is sorely needed in a i. m and they help the girls to become good fllllt material for our Women‘s Institutes. Anon. I like about it is that any girl can take pay less of race or religion.” (We might add ‘ nomic status”. Ed.) Mrs. Edgar Horsby: “A club girl benefit Wt association with the County Home Econon. . ,r I was taking by club work in Dufferin c , were surely favoured in having such a caps tmmc net -lilt;i1’ ' ll]ng * gnu"- 5. CDl'l- economist as Miss Helen McKercher to 14 it; I feel, too, that clubs have some advantages .r t,ch economics classes in school because a gt; .. u. press herself more freely to a motherly I: m, there is the Record Book to use for all f.” years." Mrs. Carl Wilson: “Girls with homemt‘ glib experience, when they enter Secondary St! mt their Home Economics classes less confux \tn, Robert Smith says “The home economics t. .,;rn tell the girls who have been in homemakr- Mrs. Aldythe Bell: “The thing I value r :mm my own experience is the selfâ€"confidence I i in club work through learning about good ‘ll'lg, etiquette and being able to stand up an re“ myself in a group. Running a close seem the things I learned about cooking, sewing .t imc» making in general. I marvel at the doll. -.-.tc making clothes for myself and my two Clllt " Mrs. Clifford Coglin: “To me, club it.- dr- signed to give members a basic knowletl. t the practical tasks of everyday living in order t .alile to meet the world with the self-assurance t‘ hits of knowledge in whatever role of life 111 .nticr- take. whether it be as homemaker, teacl- m. home economist or in any other occupatiw Mrs. Elmer Young, in addition to sun 'the points mentioned above. says: “The club _ ‘wlL‘S friends and goes places which she miglt. i: do otherwise. 1 have been talking to some t‘ Tilt] girls' and we certainly remember the gout1 ‘ “t‘ had at our meetings as well as all the W learned." Mrs. Hare mentions a friendslv vlll fl woman in Saskatchewan that started when W as club members at the National 4-H Clul t'W-ll meeting in Toronto thirteen years ago. Mrs. Stanley Franks: "We mothers ma} ‘ -=‘U”' ably good cooks and Sewers but we do i'i ‘ml-L' time to teach our daughters these things. \ ‘l u l‘ required in the club we stop and take tlnu.‘ *ml M allow our daughters to use our new w s “1" chine, which we were afraid to do befOrt Mrs. Wm. Walker introduces another in ‘ Wm her own experience: “When I started clut vfl- ’“ 1937 I had just stopped high school and u. lct‘llnl! lost and out of things, so the club filled . «rd In my life to be doing something and learnt“; ‘l‘mc' thing at the same time. My record books d‘ -t Lâ€"‘W-‘l help to me now in my daily routine of ill-iii“ mdlxll'lg and bringing up three daughters." HOME AND COUNTRY