Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-17
TWO VALUABLE
LESSONS FOR .
HOME.MAKING

In talking to friend the other day
] found that she was doing all her
sluying at one shop. and that one OF
the most expensive in the neighbor
hood As she had been telling me OF
her financial straits, had no hesit.
ancy in inquiring
DO you buy much there? Isn't ne
rather steep In his prices@
Well, possibly q few cents more
here and there, hut then / can always
ccunt on things being good. 2 she said !;
and anyway, have no time with my
outside work to attend to any OF those
details.
As ] sat turning her too familiar
problem over in my thoughts. ! found
striking contrast In conversation
bad few days previously with q
woman whose husbands earnings
represented little more than the In
come OF the struggling family.
She had two babies and a quaint
little home in which there seemed to.
be plenty OF everything. She knows
the local market as merchant knows
his marts.
%
she told me. but eggs are two cents
less than at any other shop. At As,
riarlset You can get lovely lamb
chops. but you pay a little more Tor
steak than at the market"
And so It went Everything that 4
housewife could possibly use was tick y
eiad and pigeon-holed as to price. She
thinks the telephone q great help and
nses Il constantly. but she. does occa-
alonally make a round OF the stores to-
find out IN which lines they excel
Most important OF ell, she pays cash
FOR everything that gees upon her
table.
The point OF all this Is that the
"conseryer saves as much as the
ether wife makes. and her home is "a
real home =
Another lesson in delightful home
making Is found in the abiding place
Of a young couple In the newer West
Philadelphia district I'd like to allow
the world 70 neep at bedroom ! was
permitted 70 see
The walls are covered with tiny IFS
tired. neutral toned paper OF the kind
ueed for ceilings: the woodwork is
white and the floor dark red
On the floor are two rugs. One Is .
small rag rug in blue ind rose Of the
type that can be picked IN in any de-
partment store for about 81; the other
on cld-fashioned crocheted rug. for
which she paid 80 cents to seamstress,
who made It from scraps
The furniture Is of rich. warm gray
with crystal nobs on chiffonier and
dressing table. Plain white curtains
hang against the panee and there are
cisDtz draperies reaching Just to the
SIN inside.
An ideal room though the owner
told me Il was the'.left-
oser ROOM 1t was s'second-story
'front.' which had been roughly used
Originally there was red wall paper
running to the border Of roses and a
heavy figured ceiling
The woodwork was imitation OF go1-
den oak and the furniture on hand
available consisted OF red chair Left
ever from the living room. q white
led, a golden chiffonler and white
dressing table.
we did have tc buy paint. plenty
of II. she said. "and that's about all.
We had lots OF FUN putting It on. and
We did every Bit OF 1t ourselves, and
you would be snrnriced to see how
much bigger the room looked when we
were through The gray paint on the
furniture was particularly facinating. I
and I got my glass nobs at the sand
1e-cent store
A little point that attracted my at
tention was the manner IN which the
narrow looking glass from the top OF
tLe chiffonier had been utilized Taken
from its brackets, 1t was hung perpen.
Gicular against the wall over the
ciiffonier.
On either side of It we're two glass
candlesticks. which also came from the
5-and10-cent store This combination
lit of furnishing easily took the place
OF an old-fashioned high-boy.
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