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Show HOUSEKEEPERS' CONFERENCE AND FARMERS' ROUNDUP ARE AT AN END Gatherings Are Pronounced the Most Successful Yet Held and the Enthusiasm Enthu-siasm of the Women Was Particularly in Evidence; Addresses of Experts From the East Are Greatly Enjoyed. THE housekeepers' conference in j connection with the farmers' roundup at the. Logan Agricul-. Agricul-. tural college for 1915 closed yes- ' urdav, after two weeks of interesting oiscufsion of things pertaining to the tome. The enrollment was more than out) a considerable increase over last vpar and certainly a contrast to the five registered five years ago, when the conference was inaugurated. Tho enthusiasm of farmers' wives in ,l,e vicinity of Logan was shown by ihe fact that they attended the conference confer-ence (luring the day and returned home at night to look after the duties of the y-'bome and farm, riding miles both morning morn-ing and evening. Early in the cold, frosty mornings farm wagons and sleds with the farmer, his wife and children could he seen approaching the college campus, the occupants bundled to their tves in heavy wrappings to keep 'out the intense cold. The mother would be the first out, .iiakinir the frost from her outer wrap pings and lifting out the chUdren to nirn them over to the attendant of the duy nursery in the gymnasium building, where the conference was held, while the farmer looked after his horses and prepared to spend the day at; the roundup. Eager for new ideas, Cue mother, satisfied that her little folks were in good hands for the day, would go into the conference, where capable speakers discussed helpful appliances for lightening housework and advanced ailvk-e in home management. The first week was given to the practical prac-tical side of the home in the line of cooking, marketing and kitchen management, man-agement, with. Mrs. Nellie Kedzie Jones oi Auburndale, Wis., as the principal speaker, and the second week to the decoration of the home, for which Mrs. T. Vernette Morse of Chicago, an artist and art critic, gave some excellent suggestions. Mrs. Jones's reference to her farm home at Auburndale gave one a mental men-tal picture of what a "comfy," homey place it was. She told of how she found it entirely without conveniences and by a little ingenuity and planning had added simple devices to obviate the lack of thought in its original construction. construc-tion. She told of the covered way she h:ul put from the kitchen to the storeroom, store-room, which was known in the family as the "Midway." How here she kept two refrigerators, one of which, a large I one, had been discarded by a relative : in the city. In the large one she kept I meat and large articles, and the smaller one was reserved for milk and butter. Then she told of how a simple icehouse ice-house was., made with rough boards found about the place and how the ice, taken from a near-by river in the sum-nie:-, was packed in sawdust and straw fo there was an ample supply all through the heated term. Then shelves -nrre put in handy places and a mere house was transformed into a home. Mrs. Morse, too, in her artistic sense of home decoratiou. showed how a little discrimination in the selection of wall paper and pictures and bric-a-brac and the arrangement of furniture could make one's surroundings give an effect not only pleasing to the eye, but an inspiration in-spiration toward a good disposition and actual character building. Mrs. Morse gave a warning as to too many decorations and said that she had seen koines which looked more like bazaars than places in which to live. Mrs. Morse highly commended the work of Utah artists. An address by Mrs. Leah P. Widtsoe. wife of President John A. Widtsoe of the agricultural college, on "The Life of Ellen n. Richards," the mother of domestic scfnnce, was declared by those intending the conference to be one of the gpnis of the programme. It. was pivr-n last Monday. Mrs. Widtsoei was formerly a teacher of domestic science find has carried her ideas into practi cal use in the construction and management man-agement of her home on the college campus. Her suggestions were of much value to houseiteepers and were presented pre-sented in a pleasing way. A feature of last week's programme was Federated club day on Wednesday, when tho women belonging to the federated fed-erated clubs of the state were invited to atteud the conference and to be guests of Mrs. Widtsoe at a cafeteria luncheon lunch-eon at noon at the college. It was unfortunate un-fortunate that so few or' the club wo-imen, wo-imen, and especially the (Salt Lake club women, showed their appreciation or the courtesy extended tneoi ami the privilege of the. good that would have come to them from the conference. The art exhibit was formally opened on Wednesday with a studio tea, when the club women of Logan served tea from 4 until (3 o'clock in honor of the visitors. Three tea tables were placed in three of the different rooms of the exhibition. Each had a centerpiece of pink carnations. Different members of the reception committee took turns at the tea and chocolate urns. The art exhibit included the work of the pupils of the school and of Utah artists ar-tists and architects. The loan exhibit of paintings which were copies of the works of the old masters by I tab. ar tists was especially creditable, lhis exhibit ex-hibit was collected and placed by the art committee of the state federation of women's clubs, of which Miss Myra Sawver is chairman. Mrs. E. E. Corfman of Provo, president presi-dent of the state federation, attended the last, week of the conference and assisted as-sisted in rceiving the club women on Wednesdav. . The possibilities of the college in the wav of creating home decoration is demonstrated in furniture .iust completed com-pleted in the mechanical arts department depart-ment for the reception room of the Utah building at the San Francisco exposition. exposi-tion. The furniture, was made by the third and fourth-year students under the direction of A. J. Hansen, head of the school of mechanical arts. The furniture fur-niture consists of two large settees, four easy chairs, six straight chairs and a large table, constructed of quarter-sawed quarter-sawed oak. with a dull finish m brown. A similar lot of furniture in slash-gram maple has iust been sent to the ban Diego exposition. Relief maps of Utah, showing topography topog-raphy and possibilities in agriculture, made under the direction of the geological geolog-ical department for the two expositions, show not only artistic ability, but scientific sci-entific geological knowledge. The Thomas Smart gymnasium, the building in which the conference sessions ses-sions were held, the latest addition to the college buildings, is a commodious structure. The meetings were held in the men's gymnasium and the women s gymnasium was turned into a day nursery, nur-sery, where from thirty-five to forty children were cared for each day to enable the mothers to attend the sessions ses-sions with easy minds about their little ones. The growth of the conference can be appreciated bv the fact that three years ago the conference was held in the class rooms of the Woman's building, built to accommodate not more than twenty-five twenty-five or thirty persons at one time. The demonstrations were given by the regular reg-ular teachers, iust as their class work was given. Tina year, with the largely ;nroaap enml 1 m en t.. if. was with diffi culty that all in attendance could get near enough in tho large gymnasium to see the demonstrations given by experts brought from a distance. The next activity of the extension department of the college, which had the round-up and conference in charge, will be a county conference at Cedar City from February 3 to 13. Mrs. Jones, who appeared on the state conference programme, will return from the northwest north-west and take part in the conference for the last three days. She will pass through Salt Lake, but will be unable to stop over. Miss Gertrude MeCbeyne, who is at the head of the home economics eco-nomics department of the extension work, will tako an active part. Miss McCheyne was the live wire of the state conference, by the way, and came as near being every place at once 'as energy could accomplish. She gra- ciously welcomed visitors, attended to the details of the programme and met various committees. Miss McCheyne is also a ready speaker and her address on "The Federal Government and the Utah Home Economics Associations" at the conterence on Monday was one of the many good things on tie programme. The "blue" team entertained the "red" team of the Y. W. C. A. Friday night in the Y. W. C. A. rooms in the Continental bank building. The "blues" lost to the "reds" in a membership contest con-test conducted in tho early part of tho winter and, according to agreement, were the hostesses in the entertainment last night. Red and white carnations were used iu the decorations. The "blue" team wore blue and white caps and the "red" team, red and white caps, and ices in red, white and blue were served. The guests were asked to give answers to conundrums as the first feature of entertainment. A musical mu-sical and literary entertainment was carried out. Piano duets were given by Miss Bernice Carlson and Miss Gwendolyn Carlson; readings were given giv-en by Miss Edith Eckstrom; vocal selections se-lections by Miss Lillian Wedner, and the story of the contest was told in rhyme by Mrs. Harold J. Stearns. The "red" team brought fifty new members mem-bers and tho "blue" team fortv-seven new members into the association. The music section of tho Ladies' Literary Lit-erary club met Tuesday at the clubhouse, club-house, Mrs. Daily presiding. An attractive attract-ive programme was presented. Mrs. C. E. West gave a paper on the life of Peter Uich. Tschaikowsky. Mrs. Theodore Theo-dore Best sang two soprano solos, "Was t but a Blade on Dewey Meadow Ground" and "Cradle Song," by Tschaikorysky. Miss Williamson and Miss Voelker gave two piano duets, March, op. 70, by Glazounof, and waltz, by Moszkows'ki. Mrs. Wise sang three contralto solos, "Lilacs" and "Morning," Rachmaninoff, and "Russian "Rus-sian Lullaby, " Esipoff. Mrs. J. W. Curtis sang two soprano solos, "Farewell "Fare-well Ye Hills," "Joan of Arc," both by Tschaikowsky. Miss Voelker gave two piano solos, "Polichinelle, " by Rachmaninoff, and "Polonaise," by Paderewski. The accompanists for the afternoon were Mrs. J. W. Curtis, Mrs. D. O. Perkins and Miss Rowena Korns. The next meeting of the music section sec-tion of the Ladies' Literary club will be February 9 at 2:30 p. m. " Miss Dorrit Evans and Miss Ednah Linn will be the soloists for the afternoon. Miss Evans will play a piano concerto in B flat minor by Tschaikowsky. Miss Linn will sing three songs of the modern Russian composers. Both artists will be accompanied by the Salt Lake Woman's orchestra, conducted by Mrs., Esther Allen Gaw. The Wasatch Literary club will have an open meeting Tuesday evening at the University of Utah. Dean Byron Cummings will give a lecture on "The Archaeological Expedition of 1914," and curios collected on the trip through southeru Utah will be shown. The members of the club have the privilege of inviting guests and an invitation has been extended to the members of the state legislature. The art section of the Ladies' Literary Lit-erary club will meet Wednesday morning morn-ing at the clubhouse. Lucas Cianach. the elder, and Lucas Cranach, the younger, will be the subject for discussion dis-cussion with a paper by Mrs. E. O. Lee. V The dramatic section of the Ladies' Literary club will meet Monday afternoon after-noon at the clubhouse. Miss Ethel Brxby will give a resume of Pinero. Mrs. Ldward M. Garnett will give a reading read-ing from "Trelawney of the Wells." The current events and current literature litera-ture section of the Ladies' Literary club will meet Friday afternoon at the clubhouse. Mrs. G. L. Peterson will speak on "Uncle Sam as a Champion of Health." Mrs. Marcus Jones will review "The Raft," by Dawson. The Monday Night club will meet Monday, February 8, with Mrs. Helen M. Robt at her home in the Meredith apartments. Edgar MacDougall of Murray Mur-ray will address the meeting on "Plans for City Home Rule and Charters for Cities. The Ladies ' Progressive club of the Second municipal ward will hold its regular monthly meeting Tuesday afternoon after-noon with Mrs. John Corless, 437 Second Sec-ond East street. AH progressive women are invited. The Authors' club will meet Wednesday Wednes-day in the bishops' building. Mrs. C. C. Crismon will review "A Grammarian's Grammar-ian's Funeral," and Mrs. Evans will discuss "The Lost Leader." The local chapter of the American Institute In-stitute of Child Life will meet with Mrs. Carl Bergin, 629 Eighth avenue, Wednesday at - p. m. An interesting programme, has been arranged and all members arc invited to be present. The Old Albany club will meet with Mrs. J. Hill, 123 Vine Htreet, Murray, Thursday afternoon. Members are requested re-quested to meet at First South and Main , streets at 1 o'clock to take the Murray car. Mrs. Bowver will entertain the la-Idies la-Idies of St. John's truild and their friends !at her home on Ninth East street with ja silver tea Wednesday afternoon from 2 to 0 o 'clock. The Jackson Mothers' club will hold its monthlv meeting tomorrow. Miss ; Roberts will be the speaker of the an- ; ernoou. All mothers interested iu the j club are invited to be present. The club chorus of the Ladies' Literary Lit-erary club will meet Tuesday afternoon at 2" o'clock at the home of Mrs. Ella Cummings Wetzell on North State street. The girls of the Sweet. Candy company com-pany will have a frolic in the gymnasium gymna-sium of the Y. W. C. A. Monday evening. even-ing. The Ladies' Aid society of the lliff Methodist church will meet Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. James L. V ilson, 157 Twelfth East street. w 4r The Charity Sewing circle will meet Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the B. B. hall. The Ladies' Aid society of the First Methodist church will meet Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Segrist, 2S64 Ninth East street. The vesper hour at the Y. W. C. A. rooms in the Continental Bank building today will be given over to a musical programme furnished bv Gustav Schuster Schus-ter and his pupils. Miss Evangeline Thomas will contribute some vocal solos so-los and the Uautocum club will act as hostesses for the social hour. All young women and girls are invited. The programme pro-gramme will bein at 5 o 'clock. The O. 0. Howard W. R. C. will he entertained at a Kensington at the home of Mrs. Sphar, 2700 Seventh East, Thursday afternoon. All friends of the G. A. R! are invited. Take Wandamere car. I ... Mrs. Ben Hughes entertained the Golden Rule Sewing club Wednesday afternoon. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Cunlisse, 470 North Third West. The Seekers' Literary club will be entertained en-tertained with a Kensington Thursday afternoon bv Mrs. J. T. Beless at her home, 667 South First West street. . T Captain Edwin G. Brown will speak this evening at 8 o'clock at the First Unitarian church on "The Lure of the Sea." . The Missionary society of the First Congregational church will meet with Mrs. C. D. Kipp, 435 Twelfth East street, Thursday afternoon. Reynolds circle, Ladies of the G. A. R., will give a card social at the home of Mrs. Hattie Anderson, 1970 Fourteenth Four-teenth East street, Thursday evening. ... The Civic club will meet Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock at tho Commercial Com-mercial club. L. E. Martineau, Jr., will speak on "Civil Service Reform." The Emerson class will meet Wednesday Wednes-day afternoon in the parlors of the First Unitarian church. ... The Argenda club will meet Monday afternoon with Mrs. Herman C. McGregor, Mc-Gregor, 3S3 Wrall street. Mr ... Victor lodge 89, Ladies' Society B. of L. F. and E., will meet Thursday afternoon after-noon at 2 o'clock in the Eagles' hall. ... The College club will meet Thursday evening with Miss Helen Monroe in the Caithness apartments. The Association of City Clubs will hold its regular meeting at 2.30 Monday at the Commercial club. . j The Ladies' Germania club will give' a card party at Eagles' hall Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. ... Mizpah chapter No. 5, O. E.. S., will hold its regular meeting Monday night at the Masonic temple. |