“MRS EXPERIENCE” SAYS!

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 192, 15 August 1931, Page 15 (Supplement)

“MRS EXPERIENCE” SAYS!

(From “Home Chat.”) If the family seem peevish and verything is going wrong one evening, insist upon everyone going to bed early. There is nothing like a good night’s rest to smooth out the wrinkles and uanish the frowns. If you live in an upstairs flat and you buy your coal in one hundredweight sacks, see that you get it from the same coalman every time. If you do this, the man gets used to your stairs and will not be so prone to make .dirty marks on the walls or carpets. Vary your dishes as much as possible. Don’t get that “bacon and egg” complex foe breakfast or that “roast beef and Yorkshire pudding” habit for Sunday dinner. Make cooking a pleasure by making every meal different. If you arc childless, buy a puppy and train him. Put up with the inconvenience which his puppyhood days are uound to bring in order to enjoy the companionship which will be yours when he grows up. A dog is a great friend to woman as well as to man. Make one particular hook on the dressed a Key Hook; that is to say, make it the home of the front-door key. If you do this you will soon find that it becomes second nature for you to hang it there when you come in. When you have visitors, don’t bother about the washing-up. Leave it until the house is peaceful again when your visitors have gone. It is seldom worth while to permit your guests to help you clear away and wash-up. When you have important guests, such as business associates of your husband, it is worth while to borrow a friend’s maid for the evening. Don’t forget that a fur coat is not so extravagant as it sounds. Not only docs a fur coat look nice, but it lasts several winters and keeps away colds which are liable to creep through the warmest ordinary “great-coat.” Make a point of buying your husband’s birthday and Christmas presents out of your own money. Buy a penny money-box and pop in the pennies you save in bus and tram fares and in other ways. You can have no idea how these pennies mount up!