The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-05-11
MEND|NG SHOP IS
BOON To BACHELORS
Workers Advertise and Get All
The Business They
Can Do

Who Ices your mending, a man VINO
lives at the club? And yours, girl VINO
hotfoots it to business early morn
ings and frolics at night? And yours,
dear beautiful lady, VINO spends the
day in ph~ilanthropies and suffrage
work? And yours, oh. bachelors ana
widows? And yours, young fellows
in hall bedrooms? Does 1t really get
done? Honest-don't you all throw
away a lot of perfectly redeemable
hosiery. %blouses. neckties and pettl-
coats. shirts and undertakings just be-
cause you don't know where 10 get
them repaired? Besides you feel
they aren't worth "bothering with
and hat it's cheaper to get new,
inexpensive wearables than to waste
time and money having them made
over or ended
Well, now let me tell you how a
pair Of mems glove hat needed mend
ing started the Mind Your Mending"
shop, which has a sociological aim,
and puts money in your pocket at the
same time.
The shop was started by Mrs. j..
Searle Barclay. Jr., whose name is
identified with q dozen constructive
movements, from the Big Sisters" to
the Florence Crittention League, n
Miss Eva E.. vom Baur, also a Big
Sister" as well as a very busy edi-
tor.
Work For Unemployed.
Mrs. Barclay sought a permanent
means of furnishing employment to
the long-unemployed and the wrongly
employed. Miss vom Baur wanted to
be mended up herself and help her
friends to be. 1t was here that the
gloves came in.
who does your mending?" asked
Miss vom Baur of the man with the
ripped fingers,
Nobody" aid he. When they
get too bad I throw 'em away"
III a woman l know and myself
start a mending shop, vii, you promise
to give us all your repair work?
Troubles Of a Bachelor.
"Surest thing you know" said the
man, holding up a grateful hand to-
ward high Heaven. "And I'll steer a
whole lot of other chaps there who
live at clubs and hotels. They never
have anything properly mended," he
went or enthusiastically. 1.-The laun-
dry vows to mend your shirts and
socks, but half the time it doesn't
The tailor sews on your buttons and
patches your clothes. but insists on
selling you another suit in revenge
Sometimes the janitor's wife helps
You out, but usually she's too busy OF
too grouchy. Start your mendine
shop! Gee, I'll go to it,"
SO they started it. And he did. He
sent a batch of neckties and some
skirts and sock, apologetically. HI
paid SO for some Of the tics, but they
were worn through at the knot. TIL,
Mind Your Mending girls shipped of
a piece. rehemmed it and made som
magic touches here and there, and 10
the man had a new tie-for a quarter
The shirts and socks were whipped
into shape in q jiffy. and the maj
hardly knew them when they cam
home whole.
Girls Get 81 a Week.
The work is lone at 80 cents De
hour charge. If the socks only hav
small holes a big bunch Of them ca,
be lone for a very little money.
milady's petticOat e a new facin
or ruffle, the girls will shop round 70
material that matcn-s and put tn
garment in perfect condition for les
than what a new one would cost. I
clothes need cleaning as we'll as re
pairs, the Mind Your Mending sho
Will attend to it and save YOU tn
trouble.
The girls employed at the Min
Your Mending shop get a living WAC
of 81 weekly. They work in a sho
which is clean. sweet and light. The
have easy hours and a chance to rl
out in the sunlight at noon. The
work under the direction of wome
VINO are their friends n understand
ing sisters. In short. the women WI
are back of the mending shon a,
more eager to patch, repair and r,
ln1orce some OF the rents in our 8,
cial n industrial fabric than II
actual ones in our garments.