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Show 'Do It Yourself Trend Moves into Back-to-School Seen T"HE rising tide of the "Do It Youiself" movement which has captured the enthusiastic participation partici-pation of Dads and Moms everywhere, every-where, gives every Indication of spilling over into preparations for sending the children back to school. And there is every reason why it should, for in addition to the soul satisfying pleasure one gets out of creating something with his own hands, the trend has a very happy effect on the family budget. While most folks think of the "Do It Yourself" trend in terms of using the wonderful new power tools in working with wood which is almost entirely the province of dad this activity is really much broader. It encompasses the making of clothes for oneself, from Mom's point of view, which also means making clothes for the youngsters who are getting ready to go back to school. From her point of view also it means, most enthusiastically, the idea of home decoration, which involves in-volves such things as making curtains cur-tains and drapes and repainting furniture or choosing unpainted furniture to be finished at home. For dad, from the back to school point of view, it means the opportunity oppor-tunity to make the additional equipment and storage space which is required by the very growing grow-ing child new bookshelves, wardrobes, ward-robes, perhaps even a desk, and a lot of other things. And finally and most assuredly from the standpoint of education for the younger members of the family it means participation in maintaining the home in an orderly or-derly and inviting way. This point can in fact be extended extend-ed to include child participation in preparing meals to be taken to school, and of course in helping clear away after meals at home. Here, through the growing "Do It Yourself" movement is the high road to expanding the education of youngsters in actual living, right at home, the while they are going to school. Junior will enjoy his room more if he can put into practice what he is learning in manual training classes at school, by helping dad make the new bookshelves for his room. Sister is no doubt old enough to learn from mother about how to make her own clothes and she'll enjoy participating ta ,t smart 'teen ager sewing machine, aadT? 11 rected toward a ctJr saving career. tlVe bn( Let her plan re-dec-own room-and let? '0110' make the drapes and f furniture, and itwmt more her own. be Ml "Doing it Yourself i, ' to fundamentals. setHWksb example for school make them better ' end. pePle la The best training fo, th perrmt actual participa1 ' |