BUSINESS WOMEN IN AMERICA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7812, 3 June 1909, Page 4

BUSINESS WOMEN IN AMERICA.

The secret of living comfortably m J cramped quarters is passed from business girl to business girl m America. Especially is this so on the Western slope. Some suggestions gathered from a writer's experience, related m the Ladies' Home Journal, may be of use to many girls m New Zealand who are housed m one room. < i Learn to keep things as compact as possible, says the writer. A steamer trunk, because it takes up little room, is a comfort to a business girl. It slips under the couch, makes a window seat, or, turned upright, a stand. Invest m about fifteen yards of imitation silk or chintz for covers for. your couch and pillows, and window-hangings. These give a homely touch, and show individual taste. If you suffer from eye-strain, invest m a curtain of d>,rk green cambric. One girl who had made her room pretty with cut fabric m la wild rose design, papered some boxes of fancy shape with a similar design for her oddments. She cut out the flowers and pasted them on a white water-colour paper lamp-shade, arid thus made an artistic little nest. Another, with a miniature laundry outfit^ does all her collars, stockings, and handkerchief washing. Every business girl knows the trick of pasting wet handkerchiefs upon mirror or window glass instead of ironing ,them. Corrimeal or bran will clean your furs. Magnesia- will clean lace. Fuller's earth will clean light felt hats. Hundreds of little ways to care for yoilr cloths will be discovered if you try to make your one room a home. This applies with greater power to the business women of America, where rooms are built m great blocks to be leased out to workers—each room supplied with hot and cold water and a gas cooking stove, small and compact. Women workers m the States are catered for as part of the economic wealth-producing assets of the country.