Show i t t r r I I I I J I I I t I I r I I d r I I t MAKING GOOD IN INA INA I A ARea SMALL TOWN Real Rea Stories Storie About Real Girl Girls By MRS HARLAND H. H ALLEN III i 11 J mi n I m i m n I n II I 1 lIt KNITTING NETS NEAT SUMS SUMSA LL THE nation net needs knit wear A ALL That's why home knitting Is more than the nice but mote mot or less lesa unnecessary unnecessary essary occupation which the uninitiated uninitiated consider It its The big factories It ItIs Itis itis is sometimes presumed d can cnn take care of ot all the knitting that Is necessary woman But they dont don't Insists one who started a big knitting business In Ina Ina ina a small way very for utaI the home knitter not only exists but she Is an Important Important important tant factor In the business Its It's true that she doesn't always knit by hand now days she adds if It she has gone Into the business seriously seriously se se- se- se she has probably procured for herself herselt a knitting machine This young woman living In a small knitting Michigan town started a factory In h hex her own kitchen She peddled her wares from door to door knowing that every person verson in town was a II possible customer Her Idea Idoa direct from mill to home made madea a hit and she soon Boon found it necessary to Install two knitting machines machine and to employ girls to run them From I that small start has grown an organisation organ organ- i atlon running six alx hundred knitting and employing eight thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand workers The small town to gIrl gins warns wants 10 to u take up knitting as a profession should start In on a small scale knitting by hand or bu buying only one machine Later as os her business gro grows B she may buy bur more mere machines and employ others to help her Even Eyen before the present vogue rogue for tor knitted wear outer the need fo for r knitted stocking and underwear kept knitting needles needles and and machines busy Formerly objections to a complete costume costume costume cos cos- tume of knit goods were that It w we too stretchy th that t It lost Joet Its shape almost before the buyer could get It Ithome Ithome ithome home and that It was not becoming to anyone none weighing over one hundred and twenty pounds Recent manufacturing turing methods have In part overcome overcome overcome over over- come these objections objection and recent dres dressmaking methods have done the rest I RI Right ht now when women are Bre demanding demanding de de- manding complete knitted costumes with all knitted accessories Is the time for tor the girl with the knitting or needles n needles or machine to machine to make good I p 1824 We t rn N w p p r Union I |