Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-08


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them daily in an interesting review
of their home life and learn to meet
the conditions of the high cost of
living with them.I
WEDNESDAY.
Mrs. Hooper finished the ironing with
feeling of satisfaction that had not
been hers before since she had moved
into the new house and she realized that
it was because the laundry was in shape
/ for the first time, with all the necessary
appliances in their proper places. This
was the result of their concentrated eff
forts last Saturday to put it in prac-
teal working order. She made up her
mind that the same thing should be
done with She kitchen next Saturday,
and on Monday she had made all the
entries necessary in her notebook to re-
mind her Of what she needed and where
she wanted shelves and hooks placed
when Henry and Roger would be at
leisure to- help her AS she folded up
! the family garments, noting in her little
/ book the mending that was necessary on
each one, she wondered if what Mrs.
Campbell had once told her about the
best time to do the mendipg might not
be true. Mrs. Campbell's contention was
that the proper time to mend was not
on Wednesday and Thursday after the
ironing was done, but on Monday when 4
the clothes were sorted Her idea wasa
that the washing would make the tears
and rents in the garments larger and
that if you mended the clothes after they
were ironed it was impossible not to
have them all wrinkled and mussed up
again.
Mrs. Campbells suggestion came TO
her mind S she noted that the small tear
in Rogers pajamas had become a long
rent as a result Of its trip 10 the washtub
and clOthesline, but after considering
1t for a while she concluded to stick to
her old plan, praCticed for SO many years
in Maytield Of doing her mending after
the clothes were all clean. Mending
wasn't such a diSagreeable task when one
sat down to handle pile of freshly laun-
dered clothes, but she couldn't imagine
getting much pleasure out OF the task il
one had to sew on them when they were
soiled. With her little time saving trick
of making a note Of just what had to be
done on each garment as she ironed II
she also did away with the necessity Of
missing it up by having to look for the
place to be mended, after it had Leen
carefully folded. Her list today showed
enough mending to keep her busy for
q whole afternoon, and now that sha
had no wOmans club meeting to go to
on Friday she decided to devote that
time to mending. She carried the clothes
that were to be put away upstairs and
arranged them in the bureau drawers and
in the linen closet and put those to he
mended in a large pasteboard box that
Henry's new suit had been sent home III
and which she had packed in the bottom
Of her trunk to be used for just this
purpose. The little blank book was
MI an, Of 10 II
ing il on Friday afternoon she would 1
find that Rogers pajamas was split on y
the left leg and that the coat needed a
button. and some mending on the button
holes: that HenTy's two shirts needed
buttons and that the arm Of his under
shirt needed patch Helen's boomers
were ripped and two of her white collars
Aeeded to have the edging stitched anu
Yer underwaist was minus several but
tons. Two of Betty's dresses had torn
places where she had caught them on
nails when her father was unpacking, and
her own blouses had small rips and her
house dress a tear in the skirt to be
mended. With this kind Of careful tab
ulation there was never any excuse for
rumpling the ironed clothes.
Before leaving the laundry she made a
list of the necessary things for the
laundry closet, which consisted Of wash
ing powders to be used in the washing
machine. some white and yellow soap,
bottle of ammonia. some javelle water.
starch. blueing and several packages of
faxed soap for washing her lace collars
by hand These she put on her shopping
list to be bought when she went in town
tomorrow.
by slow degrees I expect" Mrs.
Hooper said to herself as she started up
stairs to make the afternoon tea which
would be ready when the children came
in from school, leach room in the house
win be as satisfactory as the laundry Is,
but Oh it does seem/a long way off,
The menus for the three meals OF
Thursday are:
BREAKFAST
Sliced Bananas and Oranges
Hot Biscuits
Cereal
Spanish Omelet
Coffee
LUNCHEON
Boiled Rice
Crisped Pork and Brown Gravy
Cookies Milk
DINNER
Bean Soup
Casserole of Beef with Vegetables
Dreamed Potatoes
Canned Corn
Apple Betty