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Show t 4-IJ (Ms Join To Bring Happiness To Elderly People Confined To Home The Happy Home Makers and the Jolly House Keepers 4-H club are living up to what their name implies and are not only .making their homes,, hap pier but are trying to make a happier home for others. Every Wednesday evening, the girls with their leaders, Mrs. LaPreal La-Preal Marsh and Mrs. Mildred Gill .go to the county infirmary and serve refreshments to the elderly people to lend a friendly homep like feeling to the institution and the inmates. The refreshments are served during a picture show given each Wednesday. The refreshments thus far have been furnished by public minded business men including Don Watts, Edmund Cragun and Charles Boyer. The seventeen girls who make up the class and their leaders will not stop with serving refreshments once a week. Already plans are well underway for the girls to go over to the infirmary once each week and write letters for the elderly el-derly people when school is out. It is also part of their project to send birthday cards to the elderly people, some of whom are seldom remembered on their birthdays. And on Mother's and Father's Day they are planning to take a little gifts and refreshments to the infirmary. in-firmary. To raise funds to assist in carrying car-rying on their club projects, the girls are making nylon flowers, under direction of their leaders and selling them. In this manner, they are learning to use their hands to share their interest with others and to bring happiness and cheer to the lives of elderly people. The club leaders report the girls to be very much interested in their projects and are planning to enlarge it as time goes on. |
