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Show WEOWE A DUTY TO FAMILY AND COMMUNITY By P. Q. HOLDEN. WE SHOULD always be sociable in the home, and to our neighbors. There should be music and games in tho home. There should be choice books, suitable to the tastes and ages of the children, as well as the grown people. Parents should choose good books for the home. Much of the future of the child depends opon the influence of the home library. j, Take an Interest in Community clubs, schools, churches and libraries. If you have no Community club, help organize one. The men will appreciate appre-ciate the benefit derived from discussing their problems with their neighbors. The women can study home problems. They can study Cold Pack Canning Can-ning and help organize 'Canning clubs. They can organize sewing circles to prepare bandages and other supplies for the soldiers at the front. All phases of home making: Planning meals, conservation of the food supply, dress designing, textiles, home sanitation, home furnishing and decoration, household house-hold accounts, household economy, care of the house, home nursing, etc., can be discussed. I As a result of studies In the clubs, women are learning to view housework house-work and homemaking in the right light. Science and art applied to the work does away with drudgery. Team work on the part of club members is doing much to assist the government in its great hour of need. I Through tho Community club arrangements may bo made for lecture courses and traveling libraries to be brought to your community. The benefits bene-fits derived are almost unlimited, from the standpoint of the individual, the , community, the. school and the church. Help make'vlt possiblo to have better roads, better schools, better farms, (better health, better J-ws. |