SPAEE MOMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 17

SPAEE MOMENTS

TASKS FOR IDLE HANDS

Although there are many women, who live rushed lives, and who could hardly squeeze another job in the day's work, yet there are plenty of women with too1 much leisure on their hands, states an exchange. There are many housewives whose housekeeping duties occupy them for only two or three hours a day. They could certainly afford to devote another hour or so daily to making the home more comfortable and attractive. Women with many social activities, those who carry on other work, or devote a large part of their time .to games, or who are keenly interested in welfare work or charitable organisations, will find their leisure fully occupied, but there are hundreds of women who are bored because their interests are entirely bound up in their homes 'and families, and because their homes and families do not give them enough to do. If you know one of these, here are a few suggestions you can pass on to her. She can pay more attention to cooking. Even, if she has someone to cook for her, she can specialise in cakes and scones or break-making. She can experiment with uncommon jams and jellies, on piquant sauces, chutneys, and pickles. She can try her hand at home-made wines and cordials, and make a success of bottling fruit and vegetables. She can take lessons in sweet-making, and then make boxes of sweets as presents for her friends. Another idea is to give even greater thought to the house, to be sure that everything is in perfect order, ane linen cupboard can be overhauled, lists made, everything put in neat piles, old sheets'replaced by new, worn cloths ; cut up into traycloths, etc. If she is good at needlework she can embroider monograms on piflow slips, and so on. and beautify many things with her I work.