Show jr s — People have always asked questions about things around them Why the sun seems to rise in the morning and set in the evening Why some people are rich and sone poor a Why some gentlemen prefer blondes and others prefer "Jenny Wrens” The astronomers and scientists and phi losophers have the answers to questions like “these but when it comes to how to uphow to make a holster a favorite sofa German chocolate cake how to prepare or how to make a Dior the baby’s bottle wardrobe on a shoestring budget — ask a Home Demonstration Agent - - Eight Out of Test Tubes She has not “just answers” — but the last word in scientific homemaking right out of Uncle Sam’s test tubes This army of home making leaders be lleves that the future of America lies within the home and that the strength of America depends in part upon the kind of homemakers the future holds No r ite part of the country is too far remove to set up their leadership classes in homemaking There are 24 Home Demonstration Agents working in Utah Nearly 1000 more from all over the country including Puerto Rico Alaska and Hawaii will join them Sur- - ay through Wednesday for a national conclave in Salt Lake City Miss Bernice Palfreyman home demonstration agent for Salt Lake County is general chairman of the event She laughs right out loud when some one asks her about women’s role in a changing World "It’s changing all right” she says— "both the role and the world but the old Need a new chair for the living room? "Make it yourself” says Bernice Pal freyman Salt Lake County Home Agent chairman of upcoming national meet Mrs Bob Harman makes all her children’s clothes on proverbial shoe string Here plus her own I the little family enjoys a "fitting" session Paul right Mrs Harman Carl Kent ’n' Jack Tribune Staff Photo fundamental career of homemaking remains the same for every woman sans those methods of course” cuts and food and fabric Today’s short miracles make a glamor job out of housekeeping There’s even a quickie way to bottle to make a feather bed a jar of pickles or to tailor a chic suit And the woman down on the farm is just as hep to the new methods as her city slicker sister on Main Street Miss Palfreyman explains What the home demonstration agents do for the little lady at home the state agricul-tura- l college specialists do for her husband Men are told how to control insect pests op ante-quate- d back-achin- g alfalfa of seed by Lynn Johnson shown ways to get a higher yield ’ Anj the young lads and lasses aren’t left out of Uncle Sam’s program either Everyone knows about the boys and girls and their achievements of the conKarma Swindle vention is home demonstration agent from Davis County In her work with both adults and youth she says time or days is never a concern Her best -- "pay” is when a homemaker or a family member learns a new task or how to do an old one better Engrossed With Work ' Mary Boender county home agent in Roosevelt recounts that when her husband a former US Army employe retired she was so engrossed with the work she and her husband and their three sons went into the Uintah basin' where she could carry on leadership work with the Ute Indian tribe Mrs Boender doesn't speak a word of and the older Indian people do not Ute speak English So the Indian youngsters bi lingual do the translating “What fun we all have” she says Indian women now participate in adult training at Utah State University campus with women from all parts of the state For Maud Martin Weber County home agent the biggest thrill is when she sees the "fruits” of the year’s work on exhibit at the refinished furniture State Fair wardrobes canned foods T7 hand-madALL of the home arts Wouldn’t Trade Her Title Now listen to a graduate leader of a home agent’s class— Twila (Mrs Bob) Harthree boys and one girl man of Riverton She wouldn’t trade her title of "homemaker” for “doctor lawyer merchant chief” “Why do I believe that for a woman to choose to spend her life working within the framework of her home is a choice she should feel proud of and satisfied with?” Bhe asks “First of all it provides the best opportunity for the exercise of the creative instincts we are all endowed with Along with 4-- e Mary Boender down in Roosevelt County teaches Utes modern homemaking methods Here she checks sweet com on tribal farm to see if ready for community corn drying Old fashioned?1 Not beautiful dill pickles like these! says Karma Swindle Davis the natural creative function there is the County Home Agent Uncle Sam’s Agriculture Department supplies newest canning recipes “But believe me” she says “the results compensate for all the liabilities” Homemaking is a career she believes that offers to a woman an opportunity for a "second chance” at living Perhaps all parents live vicariously — that is they relive their own lives through their children She enjoys making her own clothes her children’s clothes — and then teaching other mothers how to do the same create a home companion opportunity-t- o This is not necessarily an accidental byproduct of a marriage and it is never an accident if it is a success Tt takes imagination and hard work No weekends off No Christmas or spring vaca-tio- n and usually no summer holiday And to top it all there is no personal paycheck forthcoming the first of the month - It Is - By Bill Coltrin Tribune Sports Writer Wives of football coaches feel they come as dose to having two husbands as anyone could without running affcul of the law They are married to charming thoughtful considerate gentlemen from December through August but in September October and November ugh To be the wife of a football coach the first thing to learn is not to think that this lug (in football season) is the “real” husband The real one will rejoin the wife— and the rest of the human race — early in December And if you wonder out loud why any girl would marry a football coach or a man with such an ambition the grid wives will cut you to ’ pieces It’s the greatest life In the world They wouldn’t change for anything They’re really living 'nerve ends tingling each week a buildup o hopes ahd expectations each game a wonderful victory or a crushing defeat So say not some bystanders so say the wives themselves Since their husbands are all good friends (except on game days) the'wives of the coaches in Region Three’s high schools — West South preoc-cupie- —p Wives of high school coaches check passing style of Mrs Grant Martin Seated left to right are Mrs Don Jespersen Mrs Wayne L ' Startin back Mrs Darold Simmons Mrs Dale Simons Mrs William Flckinger and Mrs Gil Meier together for a luncheon d to Live With the Bears East Highland Granite Olympus and Skyline —decided to get together for lunch recently to “get better acquainted” before the wars started And old Bill sometimes referred to as Lucky Old Bill got to tag along and listen I found out that one of the biggest problems the wives face is the embarrassment in church when people notice their husbands designing plays instead of listening to the speaker I found out that the night before the squad must be cut each year that is when a bunch of boys must be told to turn in their suits they’re not good enough is the saddest night of any year I found out that Highland’s Bill Fickinger e has to wear shoes with steel toes In the huddle the kids start bouncing up and down with Coach Fickinger in the middle and shoes it was brutal until he got the steel-toeI found out that the football coaches’ wives get a little upset when they find their new lawn-mowbeing used to cut the grass on the football field or when they are swamped with a bunch of jerseys which must be washed (Coaches can save a littje money on laundry this way — and use the money saved for more movie film highly prized as a coaching aid) I found out that the hardest part of coaching — orbeing a coach’s wife — is explaining to‘ pre-gam- MAAHASi some mother or father that their boy can’t be on the squad “It is doing Johnny so much good and I’m afraid that he’ll quit studying and maybe even quit school if he isn’t on the squad” is a common plea during the season This really breaks a coach up the wives say but they have to keep the best players on the squad let the rest go Otherwise the game would become silly You sort of get the Idea as the talk goes on and on that these wives are mighty proud of their husbands that they think their work is important They know their husbands are help-inboys become better citizens better men You get the idea that they sort of pity the poor wife (no matter how big a salary her hus--1 band may draw) who doesn’t have the opportunity to go to a Friday game scream and yell for her mate’s team That’s really living On hand for the football luncheon were Joyce Jespersen (West) Joann Simons (South) Barbara Martin (East) Barbara Fickinger (Highland) Florene Simmons (Granite) Donna Meier (Olympus) and Janice Startin (Skyline) All told they have 25 children and all hope that every one of their sons play football the greatest game in the world g juk — |