Show THE HAPPY HOME r by EY MA MARGARET RGARET BRUCE the rise junior bathtub UM jimmy bad had always had kind a dreadful time bathing jimmy junior vit at the hospital they bad taught her to bathe him xa in a washbowl wash bowl and then lay hint film out on a big bit bath towel spread on a table to be dried and dressed lape laps were considered dangerous din cerous because wobbly and of cour coure the tile big bathtub wae was much too deep to bathe him in vet yet mrs jimmy was always afraid he would skid on the washbowl and he h was no so despe desperately rittel V slippery and elusive when she lifted him out ashe crew grew older the washbowl trash ash bowl became too to mail and the tiny baby tub had to bo be set up oa on a chair from whence water was splashed epi nihed nil nit over the tile floor she was never really comfortable for table and never felt really safe aben bathing jimmy junior it we juet just when she hid had nearly decided not to bathe him any nay more that someone told her about a new baby tub which solved all her bet troubles at once nee it was a simple light nf affair this tiny uny banging flanging tub basket it was a oft soft bag bax of heavy fabric swung between two wooden supports which rested on th the idea sides of lire jimmys JIni mye big bath tub all she had to do wan wall to place the two wooden arma arms on oil the tile rim rint of her tub turn back the lop top the wall fill 11 her ber hiff big luli full r with warm arm water and drop jimm junior into bis his bath bag tills hag was open nt at all four comer comers so that the waria warm water edthe in the big tub flowed in and out easily when the bath was all she bad had to do 3 aa to remove the stopper from the big tub and let the water out put the best part pan of this baby tub that the coir of it was a dressing table cheif jimmy junior uns ns clean a jowel gonei was thrown around him and hi he was lifted in hrs jimmys arms until 11 ehe she could let le down the tile ringed top this top made a flat flut comfortable comfor for tahle table canvas table on which lie was laid to be bb dried po powdered dered kissed and dressed in the little pockets back of the hinged top were spaces for soap sponges ep powder and safety pins all well out of reach of the water 1 I used to dread giving jimmy junior his hig bath but I 1 thoroughly enjoy it now now said sirs jimmy mending in advance what housewife know that when hert she puts into the laundry a garment with a tear or hole in it the garment I 1 c comes 0 in e a out with the rent made twice the size broken and torn threads naturally stretch the weight of the tile wet cloth tends to enlarge the hole and perhaps the e 14 nose of the elec tri ciron gets thrust unintentionally tio nally into the open rent to its fatal enlarging 1 I go got so discouraged at t tile the way torn axom places were made worse while suing through the wash that oat I 1 decided to do something about it announced one homemaker home maker A bit of lace ripped from nancys petticoat either was torn av avny avny ny altogether or the torn piece doubled in a length A bit of a snag in a dinner napkin or n handkerchief N ns as deelories deel dei eloped oried into a big thre cornered tear I 1 wanted to mend these tears before the articles went into the wash but they vt ere nil all so soiled that I 1 want to handle them then vien I 1 got my idea whenever i was vas abott to put any article into the tile ol led clothes I 1 exam examined ineil it and if it bad any little rent or hole bole I 1 dropped it at once into it bowl of soap lakes flakes and arm water to soak I 1 all then n rubbed it out gently just enough to remove the he actual dirt dirl and hung it up to dry from there it went to my mending aza and without NIt R hout being frenid rone d had its tear neatly and thoroughly mended sifter idich it went into the washtub for a thorough cleaning starching and ironing I 1 do this now in the cast ense of any torn garment or piece of house told linen by reinforcing it t before it sets into the maws mavs of the electric hirler the wringer dna the iron I 1 can an keep tile tear from nj worse this came procedure applies to locking stockings soaking and squeezing moc stocking kings out in soap flukes flakes makes them fresh and clean enough to darn A bile it may not ret get thero thoroughly cleansed INI mending ending ili in advance adrance of the ordeal of bf the laundry sm es many jc st arment from destruction 0 scraps american women have invented and patented nearly 1400 devie devices ex the united states produces about troy ounces of gold a year A dalla new neu shaper in london Is now anted on oti paper made entirely of straw the foort forces gruet tation Is U the one ont which remains the greatest mystery to scientists women announcers are employed exclusively in japans largest radio broadcasting station A |