COUNTRY WOMEN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 167, 18 July 1939, Page 2

COUNTRY WOMEN

IxONDON < OX FERENCE. To “put a washing machine into every village and country home" is the dream of Mrs. Alfred Watt, president of the Associated Country Women of the World, which held its triennial Congress in London in June, which was also attended by about 50 Noct Zealand country women who went to England for Iho conference. Mrs. Walt told this Io the delegates in her presidential address at a s-'cion of the Congress at Central Hall, Westminster. After speaking of the swift growth of the movement in recent, year", Mrs. Watt said: “Many more young wwnicii are becoming interested in ccunLrv ] ursults. Young women have gon? from the cities to live in I he co.irr.rv to take up farm occupations all over the world? At the Washington Congress th.ee years ago, she said, sne speke of the ossible great increase in world friendship through the Country Women’s Association. To-day she spoke of its certainty. At Washington she advocated education for wives to cm oil them to keep up with their hus jams, went on

Mrs. Walt. To-day, fraquenc com-i merit told her that it. was the husband who needed education if he were to keep up with his wife. But there was still w< rk of educa tion to do. She recalled how, attending a meeting of a local women’s instilu e, she hoard the question asKed: “Why do we put a pinch of soda in the vegetable water ” and '.he reply, piv ?n by one of the women, waL, “’io kill the vitamins.” Cinema films were use I during the afternoon session to overcame the

language difficulty. Ins’e-id of delegates giving addresses on tho work ff women in their respective cuv.ntrlr:, a series of films depicting the work was shown.