PRACTIGAL HOUSEWIFERY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1926, Page 26

PRACTIGAL HOUSEWIFERY.

The women of America arc more awake in many ways than the women in this Dominion. Ihey have recognised that running a iiome is just as mi'ch a, business requiring brains as running a shop. Recently twelve women of Alleghany County, Virginia, got together and organised a Home Demonstration Club. Their idea was to work together in trying out short cuts for lessening the labour and increasing the efficiency of housekeeping, aud to pass along to their lieighboui-s every new thing that they discovered. Within three months after its organisation the club's membership had increased to twenty-flve, with a long vraiting list. So long was this waiting list that additional clubs will have to be. organised to take care of the women who are eager to enter tho work. At their meetings they read and discuss the contents of various Government and State bulletins dealing with household problems. And since the introduction of a number of laboursaving devices for the kitchen the women have become deeply interested in planning and serving well-balanced meals. These women have tested out a number of labour-saving devices; they have originated not r. few themselves, and passed.them on to other women in their - community.. A model illustrating the ingenuity of these women consisted of a "scrubbing chariot," a comfortably padded frame on which. enables housewives, iv wiping floors, to get about more quickly and comfortably. To make this device a three-quarter-inch board 20 by 10 inches .is used: The sides are made of two-inch strips eight and a-half inches long and four inches wide. The front piece is made of the same material, 20 inches long and four inches wide. An ordinary soap box' pan. be used for this by knocking Out one side and cutting down the depth to about five inches. The "chariot" is padded iri the bottom with burlap. ' Four rollers are used. . A soap dish screwed on' one side and a rack for a scrubbing brush on the other complete the device.