The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-04-02
EoR .EAfaNERs ANp THELR WIVES.

a sPPARENTI-Y in an effort to keep up the standard
OF usefulness attained when it tried to teach farmers
wives how to make cottage cheese, the Department Of
Agriculture has issued bulletin on Selection and Care
81 Clothing In the space of 81 pages of paper secured
with great difficulty because of the shortage the depart
ment touches every phase of the clothing question e-
cephow get the price For instance the taxpayer who
comes into possession of one of these bulletins will learn
chat clothing should always be comfortable and healhfu;
must protect the body from cod heat moisture rough
surfaces according 10 need ali of which might not occur
10 people Who busy earning living, if they did not
have aDeParment Of Agriculture to impress the facts upon
heir minds.
Ihen,too, there is the solemn admonion that the lines
Of the clothing should be In harmony with or improve the
mes OF the figure This suggestion may lead greater
care among farmers in selection of clothes that will show
off their figures to advantage. Too bad that Maud Null
Ter didn't have this bulletin in her possession that fateful
Jay when thejudge drove More careful selection of
her clothing with view to improving the lines of the
hge might have been the single necessary factor in win
ning The Judge
Butte over page of the bulle,in-wc Learn that
generally, little be done to undergaments except to
patch darn places, on buttons or perhaps
70 rework hayed button holes" And that valuable adj
ce followed by the even practical suggestion that
womens dresses may often be freshened and made to
ook new simply by cleansing etc., and mems hats be
treshened by rePlockng and renewing the ribbon
too bad space will not permit quotation from
every the bulletin but, hampeed by lack of paper
we enpelled to skip few pages to present the follow
ing admonidon deemed by the Department of Agriculture
essential to the prosperity and happiness of the farming
element of our population Socks and stockings may be
Of cotton wool silk AND should be long enough not to
cssmp thetoes" Whatever other information in the bule-
be overlooked this should not be forgotten. Teach
rural schools might well copy the backboards
order that it may be permanently fixed in the pupils
minds while their Intellectual faculties are still at recep-
i've Stage. After they have gone out in the world and
have become mentally unbalanced by graphing with in
como problems they may be capable of receiving
and retaining such highly technical and scientific nfoma-
donashis. Many child might after years. wear socks
made Of hemp. wood pulp, or cast iron or some other
material that would give rise to foot troubles far worse
than bunions or old fashioned CONS
Onhe whole, we believe that this bulletin on Selection
and Clothing is of the best pieces Of literature
issued the Department of Agriculture since the Wilson
administration came into power The only really censur-
able feature of the publication the fact that the back
rage only Eve Ines Of pun.sl raa;ts.. A ;aog~
tpsand truly economical Secretary of Agriculture would
have filed up the balance of the page with such sugges-
hons as hese Seeds should be planted in spring.
Weeds can be killed by hoeing, and Make hay while