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Show i Woman's Page Go at Your Household Affair in Scientific Manner Don't Rush Wholesale Into ReformDon't Work Yourself Up Over a Trifle Practice Self-control Making a Spring Jacket Recipe for Cream of Tomato i Soup Several Household Hints That Every Housekeeper Should Know. j f' SCIENTIFIC HOUSEKEEPING If something its chronically -wrong with you, your life, or your house-r house-r hold, why not go at it In a scientific spirit instead of blindly enduring or . ; battling with it? Sit down and think it over. Go at it quietly and thoroughly as a physi-cian physi-cian would do with n sick patient. Something alls your life or you would not be hurried, worried, tormented. i Interrupted, unsuccessful. First, what I J Ik wrong? Is it your own thoucht 5 and attitude? Just what are you do- l lng and why are you doing It? If l you are clear on these important J points you have gained a working i basis. 4 If you are making a home you are I making it because in common phrase $ it is your "job." . It is your business. 1 You, your children, your husband, i need a home, and it is your pleasure v, as well as your duty to order that ) home successfully. You know this. Before you blame any condition tor your active partner, the man of the house see that you are right mi yourself. Are you steadily and intel- fligently "on the job?" Are you plan- nlng carefully? Is your system right? 1 Are you the mistress or the slave of g your system? Do you let trivial mat- tors interrupt Jt? Do you go at things ft as your husband goes at his business, or do you work at haphazard, shirk ing days at a time and then ovcr- BH working until you grow Irritable and sick and unfit to live with? If you do, do you consider It justice to yourself, your-self, your partner, or the business of fj homemaking? q Do you habitually work overtime ora 4 do you misuse your leisure time so I that you unfit yourself for the next V day's work? Are you temperate? That is, are your mental and physical habits rcg- ular and wholesome? Consider these things calmly and" L you will soon discover what is wrong, t And don't rush wholesale into reform. I Change a wrong quietly into a right 5 Scolding and fussing will not acom- pllsh anything. When you are sure j you have found the cause of the trou- bio, eradicate it. If you cannot do it i alone, have a business talk with your partner. Do not put the talk on an emotional basis. Make it quiet, and brlof, and practical. Even a husband likes common sense. What would happen if he made a "scene" every time a detail in his business needed correction? Above all, learn to tell a big thing from a little one. Don't work yourself your-self up over a trifle while you ignore the Important matters of quietness, efficiency, and Belf-control. MAKING A SPRING JACKET The loosely hanging, almost unfitted un-fitted Jackets we wear today hardly need the tailor's skill though they may benefit by some of his art, and the greater part of that art is devoted de-voted to the making of a shapely garment gar-ment To do this it is necessarythat there be always some smooth foundation, founda-tion, and It is for this reason that canvaB is Introduced in the fronts and around the arm-holes, and the ends of the shoulder seams supported by several layers of cotton wadding. The canvas is soft, not stiff, and the cotton cot-ton wadding can scarcely be called padding, but both are estentlal to a rightly made jacket or coit. Lay the pattern on the jeloth, carefully care-fully observing the -way of. the goods, as well as of the perforations that indicate the straight lengthwise line. Cut the various pieces of the pattern, pat-tern, being sure to cut all the notches in seam edges, and, before removing the pattern, mark on tho cloth with chalk the perforations that relate to the construction. Follow . the directions direc-tions that have been givenln a previous previ-ous lesson for marking these lines on the cloth, first with chair., then by making tailors' tacks throujh the two layers of cloth and separating them by clipping the threads. Baste the dart in each front, then the underarm under-arm and shouler seams. Eo not cut the darts; simply bring the lines of tailors' tacks together ind baste the seam along this sowing line. Before Be-fore we fit the jacket we vlll baste the cauvas in place. |