_Demonstration_: The fireless cooker.
_Roll call_: Waste; what is it?
_Paper_: The household waste.
_Paper_: Fuel and fuel economy.
_Demonstration_: Paper-bag cookery.
_Roll call_: Emergency luncheon menus.
_Paper_: Modern problems in the home. The servant problem.
_Paper_: The seamstress problem.
_Paper_: The nurse, or the hospital?
_Paper_: The guest.
_Demonstration_: How to shape croquettes and seal molds.
_Roll call_: Supper ideas.
_Paper_: A balanced dietary.
_Paper_: Suitable combinations of foods.
_Paper_: Food values.
_Demonstration_: Supper dishes.
_Roll call_: Ways of serving fruit.
_Paper_: Soups and soup-making.
_Paper_: Planning the menu for a formal luncheon.
_Demonstration_: Laying the luncheon table.
_Roll call_: A chafing-dish menu.
_Paper_: Planning the meals so as to reduce cost.
_Paper_: The chafing dish; is it practical?
_Demonstration_: A chafing-dish luncheon.
_Roll call_: Where shall we market?
_Paper_: Marketing and the cheaper cuts of meat.
_Paper_: The old market and the new.
_Discussion_: Is it more economical to buy bread or make it, for a small family?
_Demonstration_: A luncheon costing twenty cents per capita.
_Roll call_: Breakfast dishes.
_Paper_: The adjustment of home duties to social requirements.
_Discussion_: Fats; lard, b.u.t.ter, b.u.t.terine, etc.
_Demonstration_: Cakes made with different shortenings.
_Roll call_: How shall we replenish the preserve closet in winter?
_Paper_: Sweeping made easy.
_Paper_: Labor-saving devices.
_Demonstration_: New labor-saving devices.
A teachers" club in the West has an excellent travel and study program based upon books of current interest.
_Roll call_: Current Events. _Paper_: "Through the Heart of Patagonia."
_Roll call_: Unique Customs of Countries. _Paper_: "Changing China."
_Roll call_: Quotations from Doctor Grenfell. _Paper_: "The Possibilities of Labrador."
_Roll call_: Persian Epigrams. _Paper_: "Modern Persia."
_Roll call_: Anecdotes of Famous People. _Paper_: "The Pa.s.sing of Korea."
_Roll call_: Conundrums. _Paper_: "Tripoli the Mysterious."
_Roll Call_: Selections from Spring Poems. _Paper_: "Turkey and the Turks."
_Roll call_: Epigrams. _Paper_: "The Balkan States."
One of the most interesting clubs in New England has a membership of farmers" wives and daughters, scattered around for ten miles. It has astonishingly clever programs, prepared with few library helps. Each program is clearly written on a small folder, adorned with a Perry picture bearing on the subject of the day. One program was:
_Our Friend the Horse_. Music; Current Events; paper, "Horses, Past and Present"; reading, "The Council of Horse," by Gay; reading, "The Blood Horse," by Barry Cornwall; reading, "The Leap of Roushan Beg," by Longfellow; paper, "Some of the Horses in Bookland"; reading, "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix," by Browning.