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Show Paper Work Yields Time for Beauty - . ,. .,w.. .?j'.-ra-tg'J-J '-!.'"." .'. . ' ' "' " X- v'" : ' ' ' t j 5 & yr - i ' "N ' ; vd jl TANY homemakers shrug their shoulders hopelessly when they compare the well-groomed look of career women with -their own "thrown-together" appearance. appear-ance. They tend to excuse themselves by pointing out the emergencies that steal from a housewife the W time that might have been de voted to prettying up. No one who has ever kept house would deny this, but there are ways in which to help, if not remedy, rem-edy, those situations that reach a climax with the despondent wail, "If I only had time. . . ." If you'd like to improve your grooming, take a tip from business girls and start doing a little paper work. Keep a grooming list in the same way that you do your grocery When you notice your Sunday shoes need re-soling, write a note to yourself so you wpn't be caught short the next time you plan tO-wear tO-wear them. If the button pops off your coat or your finger goes through the end of your glove, add these items in need of mending mend-ing to your list also. Tills wise young homemaker keeps a calendar of her activities, f& order to eliminate emergencies that arise through lack of organization. organiza-tion. Through planning, her outlook is more serene and her appearance more beautiful. Having scheduled a busy day to allow herself ample time for dressing, this young homemaker emerges from her home as well-groomed well-groomed as any career woman. She gives her purse a last-minute check-up (above) as a part of her beauty routine. you'll find that you have time to attend those last-minute rtiutines that add up to good grooming. It's best to keep a permanent place for these jottings, since loose ' scraps of paper tend to get misplaced. mis-placed. A small notebook or a school composition book will serve the purpose admirably. Try keeping a calendar of your activities, too. so that your days can be better planned. For this, use a day-to-day appointment book or even an ordinary wall calendar. This will eliminate such emergencies emer-gencies as suddenly remembering on Tuesday afternoon that you've promised to bake a cake for the church supper that night. It'll help keep your appointments appoint-ments straight, too. You'll avoid such pitfalls as accepting an invitation in-vitation to a tea on the same afternoon after-noon that you'd arranged to visit the dentist. With such advance planning, |