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Show PLAN TASTY MENU AND SERVE IT NEATLY, tl Cocking Club Girls Learn to Set Dinner Table. (Prepared by the L'nltcl States Department of Agriculture.) One of the outward and visible signs of progress In the field of home making, as 4-11 club girls I earn Its various phases, Is the ability to plan a good menu, from the health standpoint, stand-point, cook It palatably, and serve It gracefully. Tart of this last aspect of meal preparation Is learning to set a table In the accepted way. These club girls In Albemarle county, Va., are all at the age when they help their mothers moth-ers constantly with the different household tasks. They usually have Ideas oh what Is attractive or up-to-date In the appearance of their homes, and are especially interested lu the details that are concerned with hospitality hospi-tality of entertaining the friends of the family. The home demonstration agent Is showing this group how a dinner table ought to be set for six persons. She has demonstrated the use of a low flower centerpiece on a round embroidered dolly of white linen, lin-en, and has begun to place the "covers" "cov-ers" or Individual sets of flat silver in the proper positions forks to the left, knives and spoons to the right, napkin neatly folded at the left. Next, at the tip of the knives, the wa- ter glasses will be placed, and salts and peppers If used. Bread and butter but-ter plates with spreaders will go above the napkin, on the left. She shows how platters and other containers should be set squarely In front of the person who Is to serve, not diagonally or In hit or miss fashion as such dishes sometimes nppear on the table. No doubt a count will be made of the number of serving spoons that are needed and the position of the carving carv-ing knife and fork Indicated. Instruction about unobtrusive crumbing crumb-ing and clearing awuy is part of the generul subject of table usage. .As la many homes, no rug Is used on thl3 dining-room floor, for esperlnce has shown that this Is the hardest floor covering In the honse to keep clean. One of tlu charms of this dining room is Its freedom from articles that do not belong In It or add In any way to Its appearance. Farm girls, who live far from neighbors have fewer opportunities oppor-tunities than city girls to go Into other oth-er people's homes and observe how surroundings may be made attra.rtive. The co-operative extension work takes this Into consideration In planning what to Include In Its club projects. |