. Boone County Recorder . , Ky. In the mountainhomes these old Industries have notbeen completely lost. Rag carpets,quilting, weaving and basket-makingare still part of the school work. Mag-gie Barrett, who lives on Bald Knob |and walks four miles over a roughcountry road to and from Berea, wovethe kiver for the White House bridesbed last autumn. All good housekeep-ers the Southland over should come to this great meeting and give whatthey have to give and receive whatthey feel they need. President Joe Cook, of the StateNormal College, at Hattiesburg, Miss.,will have the general direction of th
. Boone County Recorder . , Ky. In the mountainhomes these old Industries have notbeen completely lost. Rag carpets,quilting, weaving and basket-makingare still part of the school work. Mag-gie Barrett, who lives on Bald Knob |and walks four miles over a roughcountry road to and from Berea, wovethe kiver for the White House bridesbed last autumn. All good housekeep-ers the Southland over should come to this great meeting and give whatthey have to give and receive whatthey feel they need. President Joe Cook, of the StateNormal College, at Hattiesburg, Miss.,will have the general direction of thedemonstration work in the House-hold Equipment Department in theenormous Armory. Household man-agement, meals and . their serving,house cleaning and the beautifying ofthe home will be developed under theleadership of Miss Mary. E. Frayser,Winthrop College, Rock Hill, S. of the demonstrations in cookingwill be done by the teachers of Do-mestic Science in the State Universityand the State Normal Schools of Would a Delegation PayT FRUIT IN THE SOUTH Each year the papers are full tooverflowing with reports of meetingsof merchants, bankers, manufacturers,railroad officials, labor unions^andmany fraternal orders. Some of theseare enormous affairs,brrngrng thou-sands together that are interested inthe same thing. Would it not be iffsplendid Idea if Kentucky to-day,jshould turn out her thousands of farm- iers and their friends for the meetingat Louisville. Certainly there never was a timeriper for a careful and thorough dis- (cusslon of the needs of the country |than the present. It will be a time jwhen the farmers can get togetherto discuss their own problems. Manyof the speakers will be men who comefrom between the plow handles andhave worked their problems out in aneveryday way, a way which any farm-er could probably utilize. This meeting will be in reality a lib-eral education. Not an educationgleaned from books by the midnightoil, but an education that comes fro
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