Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-19 | Page 8 | The Panhandle Club

THE PANHANDLE CLUB. ; I' "Nestling amid the hills of the Lit- -4 tlo jMIaml valley is a quaint village where in recent years there has ex- f Isted a group of twelve girls known y as tho "Panhandle club," writes T J. 4 Edmonds In the Survey i "'What a strange name for'a club,' says a reader. It was not so called J from the gentle peripatetic art of jl 'panhandling 'Panhandle' meant what ( It said the 'handle of a pan.' The r. Panhandle club was a cooking club. ' Each month it met at the homo of '; ono of the twelve and the hostess repared a repast'. There were twelve ! lucky men Invited to theso feasts j' And well, eleven or them havo now j married eleven of the girls, and tho t twelfth curses the day he left the t village. "The history of the old Panhandle 1 club Illustrates the Importance of the - housekeeping art before marriage, , the experience ot social workers in the homes of the poor emphasizes its. , r importance after the homo has been f. established. "Every social worker has learned , that although sometimes tho wolf en-tors en-tors tho homo because the Income is i too small, more often he comes be- : cause the outgo Is too large; that f,' too many pennies roll away In tho ) wake of burned and discarded food j materials nnd unmended garments , -that when mothers don't know how to fight germs with cleanliness and sanl- : , tary habits disease becomes a culture J! medlijm for poverty, and poverty i' again for disease, In what physiclnni ; call a vicious circle.' " " I