Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1920 — Home Town Helps [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Home Town Helps

beautify the farm yard No Reason Why Grounds Surrounding House Should Not Be Made and Kept Attractive. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) For over a decade the hom6 demonstration agents in the South have been teaching farm women easier and better methods of doing their housework, caring for their families, and conducting home industries. During the past years, they have been teaching, in addition, the beautifying of the farm yard. The country woman, like every other normal woman, is hungry’ for beauty, but in the past she has had less of It in her life than her city sister. Too many farm homes inside and out are

unattractive, yet beauty in a country yard costs little except effort, for the finest effects can be obtained by the use of native trees, shrubs and vines. A demand for Information on the beautifying of the home by the Southern women in the rural districts is the reason that it has been taken up definitely as a part of the extension work in the South. The response and results in every state have been more than were looked for. In Donley county, Texas, an impromptu meeting of this kind recently brought out 38 country women, all intensely anxious to learn what the home demonstration agent could teach them about making the surroundings of their homes more attractive. The demonstration .was given at the home of one of the women who had recently built a new house and who wanted to have the getting for it right.

The Importance of planting and arranging perennial vines as a background on the porches and fences was one point stressed by the extension worker. Instruction was also given In arranging shrubbery so the low-growing kind would be in front of the taller. Where flowering plants were to be used the necessity of planting colors which would harmonize well was enfphasized. In fact, an intensive course in landscape gardening on a small scale was given to the women.

In Need of Beautification.

After Proper Treatment