Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-03
THE SEWING ROOM.
Every HOusekecper Must Admit That
1T Has Special Advantages
From the Kansas City Journal

FROM the Kansas City Journal
In house that is heated throughout II
Is easy enough to set aside a sewing ROOM
where all the materials and implements
Tor work can be kept together In a sys-
temauc manner. No neat housekeeper likes
to have her sitting room occupied with the
threads and litter of cutting and sewing.
In the making over of garments there is
always certain amount of dust inevita-
bic, and 1t is desirable that this dust of
ripping should be kept in one place There
Is seldom room for the sewing materials
ana the work in the dining room, and il
Is not desirable to invade any bed room
with it. Bed rooms should be left unoc-
cupied during the daytime as much as pos
slbie They should not be used as sitting
rooms or sewing rooms for any purpose
IN the daytime, where it is possible to
avoid doing so. The average country resi-
dence Is blessed with plenty of space and
pure air, and the housewife ought to take
run advantage Of these blessings Not
every one does, and there are many houses
where the air of the sleeping rooms is con-
tamirated by constant occupation In the
daytime. The only excuse In the country
Tor crowding the family into a limited
space Is lack of facilities for heating all the
rooms in the house.
The convenience of a separate sewing
room is SO great that 1t pays in families
where there is a large quantity of sewing
TO De done to heat room specially for the
purpose In many families the sewing is
looked upon as an incidental of work not
DIS an essential part of the household
duties. In only a few homes is there a
room set apart for sewing, though the duty
OF preparing the clothes of the household
ought to be second only to the duty of pre-
pairing the food. 1t is true that a large
amount or the clothing of the masculine
portion OF the household is now purchased
ready made This only relieves the
household partially from sewing Ready
made clothing for women and children is
more expensive and not as durable as that
made at home. This includes the greater
part of the clothing, and sewing should,
therefore, be recognized as certainly
part or the houSeWork cooking. In order
to do the sewing Of the household in the
best manner there should be a room set
apart where the sewing machine, the cut
ting table and all the tools for superior
work are kept In a bureau in this room
new materials to make up and old mater
fals to make over should be left. In one
drawer or in bag there should be patches
and scraps of various materials left for
gowns and other garments. stand. with
drawers containing spools of silk and of
cotton should be placed somewhere i'm the
room, and there should be a large work
basket containing the various necessities
of the seamstress A wire skirt form on
which skirts can be hung, is a great con-
proved of no special value. The systematic
arrangement of the work in such a room is
IN itself an incentive to accomplishment
1t is not too much to say that a woman
with an orderly sewing room will do twice
as much work as one whose tools are scat
tered over the area of three or four
closets