Excerpts from The Honey Comb
Compiled by
Jennie Greenwood
Started September
20, 1938
While in the
Walnut Park Ward
{It appears that Jennie was the keeper of the scrapbook for
a small group in the Ward. Listed
below are the goals and things that Jennie recorded she did in the years from
1938- 1941.}
Under Public Service
She lists:
- helped Ray with
lessons
- mended clothes
- gave lettuce
from garden to neighbor
- visited person
in hospital
- read story to
Elaine
- cared for
neighbor children
- gave money as a
gift to a friend in need in the hospital
- gave plants to
neighbors
- sent birthday
card to friend
- loaned magazines
- gave friend a
lift to and home from party
She further lists:
#175 Every morning
for one month greeted every member of family with a cheery “good morning”
#185 Spent 3 hours
beautifying the backyard planting flowers and weeding
#174 Matthew 22:
37-40
I have
shown love of neighbor by caring for children
2) giving
vegetables
3) helping
those in need
#192 Completed
Honeycomb assignment of 15 daily good turns.
#177 Fixed lunch for
next door neighbor when she was ill and in bed
#176 During one
month rendered every possible service to members of the family.
Under Domestic Art
On one page there is a picture of a daffodil and she writes:
The Daffodil,
my symbol. Meaning- I will meet life
with a smile and courage.
I will see only the good in others. I chose the Daffodil because I felt that I
needed courage. I always was afraid to
do things and because yellow is my favorite color and when I have something
yellow to see, it brightens things up and I feel happier. I hope it will help me to “meet life with a
smile.”
She further lists:
#95 Hemmed 12 dishtowels by machine.
#97 Made a plain percale apron
#98 Made 2 pair of pajamas for my 4-year old daughter.
#99 Dyed 1 shirt, 4 pair of panties, and 4 pair of socks
#102 Made a cross stitched dresser scarf
#108 Made artificial flowers of fibre for dress.
#125 Completed Honey Comb assignment - swarm and individual
symbol
#121 Read 4 articles or stories from Improvement Era
of July 1940
1) The
M.I.A. Theme by David O. McKay
2)
Prophecies, Penalties & Blessings by J. Rueben Clarke
3)
Invincible Circle by Georgia Moore
4) The
Church Grain Elevator
Under Health
She made a chart to keep track of how many times she did the
following:
Brush Teeth
9 hours of sleep
6 glasses of water
Wash hands
Correct posture
1 Cooked and 1 raw
Vegetable
Under Business
Foundation Cell No.
7 was a Daily Plan. The following is the Daily Plan Jennie made for herself.
Monday
7:30 - 8:00 Arise,
glass of water, clean teeth, shower, comb hair, and clean nails.
8:00 - 8:30 Dress,
Dress Elaine, and make bed.
8:30 - 9:30
Breakfast, wash dishes and straighten house
9:30 -12:00 Ironing
12:00-1:00 Lunch,
wash dishes
1:00- 2:00 Ironing
2:00 - 2:30 Fold and
put away ironing
2:30 - 4:00 Rest and
read
4:00 - 5:00 Prepare
Dinner
5:00 - 6:00 Dinner
and wash dishes
6:00 - 7:00 Read
evening paper
7:00 - 8:00 Sew and
listen to radio
8:00 - 8:15 Put
Elaine to bed.
8:15 -10:15 Prepare
Beehive lesson
10:15-10:30 Wash face, clean teeth, and prepare for bed.
10:30- 7:30 Sleep
Tuesday
7:00 - 8:00 Arise,
glass of water, clean teeth, shower, comb hair, clean nails
8:00 - 8:30 Dress,
dress Elaine, and prepare breakfast
8:30 - 9:30
Breakfast and wash dishes
9:30- 10:00 Make
beds, straighten house
10:00-12:00 Weekly mending
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch and wash dishes
1:00 - 2:00 Work in
the flower garden
2:00 - 4:00 Rest
and go over Beehive Lesson
4:00 - 5:00
Prepare Dinner
5:00 - 6:00 Dinner
and wash dishes
6:00 - 6:30 Get
Ready for Mutual
6:30- 9:30 Mutual
9:30 - 10:15 Read
Evening paper
10:15-10:30 Wash
face, clean teeth, and prepare for bed
10:30 - 7:30 Sleep
Wednesday
7:00 - 8:00 Arise,
glass of water, clean teeth, shower, comb hair, clean nails
8:00 - 8:30 Dress,
dress Elaine, and prepare breakfast
8:30- 9:30
Breakfast and wash dishes
9:30 - 10:30 Make
beds, sweep, and clean up house
10:30- 12:00 Work out
in flower garden
12:00- 1:00 Lunch
and wash dishes
1:00- 2:00 Clean myself and Elaine, bath
2:00- 4:00 Trip
to doctor
4:00 - 5:00
Prepare Dinner
5:00 - 6:00 Dinner
and wash dishes
6:00 - 7:00 Read
Evening paper
7:00 - 8:00 Write
letters
8:00 - 8:30 Put
Elaine to bed
8:30- 10:15 Sew
crochet and listen to radio
10:15- 10:30 Wash face, clean teeth, and prepare for bed.
10:30 - 7:30 Sleep
Thursday
7:30 - 8:00 Arise,
glass of water, clean teeth, shower, and clean nails
8:00 - 8:30 Dress,
comb hair, dress Elaine, and prepare breakfast
8:30 - 9:30
Breakfast, and wash dishes
9:30 - 12:00 Make
beds, clean bedrooms, bathroom and clean out refrigerator
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
and wash dishes
1:00 - 2:00 Clean
up myself and Elaine
2:00 - 4:00 Shop
or visit with friends
4:00 - 5:00
Prepare dinner
5:00 - 6:00 Dinner
and wash dishes
6:00 - 7:00
Evening paper
7:00 - 8:00 Baking
8:00 - 8:30 Put
Elaine to bed
8:30 - 10:15 Sew and
listen to radio.
10:15 - 10:30 Wash face, clean teeth, and prepare for bed.
10:30 - 7:30 Sleep
Friday
7:30 - 8:00 Arise,
glass of water, clean teeth, shower, and clean nails.
8:00 -8:30 Dress,
comb hair, dress Elaine and prepare breakfast
8:30 - 9:30
Breakfast and wash dishes
9:30 - 12:00 Weekly
cleaning of balance of house, clean out cupboards and clean kitchen store.
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
and wash dishes
1:00 - 1:30 Clean
myself and Elaine
1:30 - 3:00 Beauty
shop
3:00 - 3:30
Marketing
3:30 - 4:30 Rest
and bathe
4:30 - 6:00
Prepare Dinner
6:00 - 7:00 Dinner
and wash dishes
7:00 - 8:00 Get
Elaine ready for bed, and get cleaned up.
8:00 -12:00 or so
Show or some entertainment.
Wash face, clean teeth, and prepare for bed.
Sleep
Saturday
8:00 - 8:30 Arise,
glass of water, clean teeth, shower and clean nails.
8:30 - 9:00
Breakfast
9:00 - 11:30 Washing
11:30 - 12:00 Straighten up house.
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
and wash dishes
1:00 - 2:00 Rest
2:00 - 3:00 Bring
in clothes and fold
3:00 - 4:00
Weekly shopping
4:00 - 5:00
Prepare dinner
5:00 - 6:00
Dinner and wash dishes
6:00 - 6:30 Read
Evening paper
6:30 - 7:30
Manicure and clean up
8:00 - 8:15 Get
Elaine ready for bed.
8:00 -------
Recreation
Wash face, clean teeth, prepare for bed
Sleep
Sunday
8:00 - 8:30
Arise, clean teeth, glass of water, shower and clean nails and partly
dress.
8:30 - 9:30
Breakfast and partly prepare dinner.
9:30 - 10:15 Get
myself and Elaine ready for Sunday School.
10:15-12:30
Sunday School
12:30- 1:00
Finish preparing dinner
1:00 - 2:00
Dinner and wash dishes
2:00 - 5:30 Ride
or visit
5:30 - 6:30
Light supper, wash dishes
6:30 - 6:45
Prepare for church
6:45- 9:00
Church
9:00 - 9:15 Put
Elaine to bed.
9:15 - 10:15 Read
paper and listen to radio.
10:15- 10:30 Wash
face, clean teeth, prepare for bed.
10:30 - 7:00
Sleep.
She further lists:
-Kept
clothing in repair for three weeks.
#154 Every day for 2
weeks performed my household tasks on time.
#155 Watched myself
for 1 month, and carefully finished all work begun.
#152 Did not borrow
any money, or any article of wearing apparel for 1 month.
#159 Worked out a
simple cash account of household expenses.
#162 Purchased
Beehive Band and paid annual M.I.A. fund with money I had saved.
#166 Successfully
put up in a clothes closet, a rod for hanger, hooks, and shelf for shoes
and hats.
#168 Completely
Honey-comb assignment. Put daily plan
in Honeycomb.
Under Home
Did my share in
the home by washing the dishes correctly once a day and caring for the house
for at least two weeks.
Have improved my
house by washing and stretching curtains in bedrooms, bathroom and kitchen
Crocheted sets for
chair and davenport.
Washed bed
spreads, blankets and quilts.
She further lists:
#37 Prepared 3 new
salads making 2 different salad dressings. Made shrimp salad, potato salad, and a Jell-O
salad. Made boiled fruit dressing and
mayonnaise.
#40 Cook fish 3 ways-
baked grilled and fried
#41 Cook meat in 4 ways- fried, grilled, roasted and boiled
#42 Made 4 attractive “sandwitches”
1) open face
toasted with cheese, tomato and bacon
2) toasted
cheese and tomato
3) ground meat
with pickles and salad dressing
4)
#44 Made 2 kinds of cookies- mincemeat and date drop
#47 During 1 week cheerfully did the cooking.
#49 Assist in doing the family washing using modern labor
saving devices.
#31 Scrubbed a floor well, at least once a week
#53 Did entire sweeping and dusting in home for one week
#55 Rules for setting table with dishes, napkins, and silver
#58 Spent 3 hours in a week taking baby outdoors
#38 Prepare two kinds of soup with milk , 2 vegetables.
Cream of
tomato
Cream of
celery
Cream of pea
Tomato with
meat stock
#61 Completed honeycomb assignment for checking and correct
dishwashing
#52 Cleaned 6 window properly, use vinegar water, washed,
dried and shined.
In the back section of the book, it details some of the
parties they held for the Beehives.
Here it a brief description of some of the parties.
From a newspaper
clipping:
So. L.A.
Enjoys May Breakfast
“At seven o’clock
on the morning of May 4th South Los Angeles Stake Beehive Girls and their
leaders celebrated the beginning of International Bee Hive Week with a lovely
May Breakfast at Fern Dell, Griffith Park.
Grace was sung by
stake Bee Keeper Ethlyn Wilson and then everyone enjoyed a filling
breakfast. The head table was
attractively decorated in pastel yellow and green, calla lilies and ferns were
arranged on the cloth. Silver hives were
used in carrying out the Silver Jubilee theme for this year.
Young Ladies
President Shari E. Wilcox was a special guest.
Many of the girls
and Bee Keepers stayed in the park during the day and some visited the
Planetarium.
Bee Keepers of
the stake who handled the Breakfast are : Hazel Taylor, Ethlyn Wilson, Mary
Anderson, and Jo West.
South Los Angeles
Swarm Day is scheduled for Saturday, May 18.
It will take place in the stake center.”
She handwrote the following: After leaving the planetarium the girls
spent some time visiting the zoo, after which the girls of the “Ivy Swarm”
returned to my home for lunch, and an enjoyable afternoon of music and games.
Our swarms held
their double party in the patio of the new church at the corner of Beechwood
and Liberty, south Gate. Saturday
Evening October 5, 1940.
Each girl brought
a friend, making a double crowd. We
played double games, had double refreshment with Halloween decorations. Everyone had an enjoyable time.
Guardian class of
Walnut Park Ward gave an outdoor party at the home of LaRae Jones, Wednesday,
April 23, 1941.
The invited guests
were four friends of the girls and T members of the Builders and Gatherers
Classes.
Games were played
and about 9 o’clock the guests were served with lunch consisting of,
hamburgers, potato chips, olives, pickles, and punch. Then the guests toasted marshmallows over the
coals of the outdoor fire place.
Cost of the
party $3.00
The Walnut Park
Ward bee hive swarms held their Annual May Breakfast at Ferndell in Griffeth
Park, May 10, 1941.
Fourteen girls
with the three bee keepers and the Manual Councilor, enjoyed the day. After the breakfast was over, the girls hiked
up to the observatory and back. Then we
all drove over to the zoo and after going through the zoo, the girls enjoyed a
lunch and then rode the Merry-go-round and other entertainment. We arrived home at four o’clock. Sunburned, tired , but happy and all reported
an enjoyable time.
Vermont and
Mathews Wards enjoyed their breakfast at Ferndell with us, but did not visit
the zoo.
On March 5, 1941,
I went on an excursion with the Walnut Park ward Members, to the Christopher
Candy Co. Which is located at
4020 Avalon Blvd. Los Angeles, California.
The owner of the
plant is Mr. L. J. Christopher, and Mr. R.W. Kaneen is the General Manager.
It is a modest
plant, valued at approximately $175,000.00.
During the summer months only a skeleton crew are employed, most of the
work being done during the cooler months, but the number of employees will
average about seventy-five.
The factory serves
all the far Western States, also Alaska, and Hawaii. The yearly sales are about one half million
dollars. The candy made include 5 cent
and 10 cent bars, hard candies, which are put up in cellophane bags, and box
chocolates. It’s trade brand it usually
just the scroll, but on some of the candy a small round shield is used.
The factory is an
asset to the state as well as the city, for aside from the number of people it
employs, it uses a number of raw materials, most of which are obtained right
here in California. These are: sugar
chocolate coating, cream, milk , butter, gelatin, glycerin, cream of tartar,
glucose, flavorings, nuts and dried egg whites.
Glucose being the only material not obtained here, it being shipped in
from the Middle East, the corn belt.
As we entered the
plant, the first room contained the large copper vats, in which the candy was
cooking. The next room, a large one had
several processes going on. On one side
were large round flat places which looked like tables with deep 10 or 12 inch
sides, in this was poured the mixture for the creamed mixtures, to be beaten, this
was done very evenly and smoothly by blades which turned around and around on
the table like places.
On another side,
men were pouring out peanut brittle, which quickly cooled and were cut up into
bars and wrapped by girls. In still
another part of the room men were pouring the completed filling into molds by
putting it into the top of a machine which lets the right among down into the
molds which are carried to the machine on belts. There are then stacked to harden and then
taken to the dipping room.
The was the room
entered next, which contained the machines for dipping along one side and the
place for the hand dipping along the other.
There were making the Easter Candies and here the eggs, rabbits and
chickens, molded in the other room were carried on the belts through the machine
which covered the bottom first and then a little farther on dipped the rest
completely covering the tops. As they
came through the machines, girls put the candy decoration on them, and after
going through a cooler, other girls wrapped and boxed them.
On the other side
of the room where the hand dipping was going on, we watched the girls as they
swiftly dipped bars, nuts, creams and fruit, into the milk chocolate and the
dark chocolate. As they filled a tray
they placed their number on it, placing it on the belt which carried it away to
the cooler.
In a small room at
the end, girls were putting elaborate decorations on large chocolate rabbits,
eggs, and chickens and eggs which had been removed from molds in a
refrigerator.
From here we went
down the stairs, where girls were packing the chocolates into boxes, ready for
sale. Here too was the storage room for
all the candy.
We found the plant
very clean and sanitary, and every safety precaution taken, “safety not speed”
was the motto.
The product sells of course for various
prices, ranging from 5 cents and up, depending on the size of the box of candy.
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