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Show I The Standard's il. A. . Bureau I 5 Articles of Interest to Farmers, Housekeepers and Others ! I Written for The Standard by Experts at Utah's Noted Pl Agricultural College at Logan BUYING By Ruth M. Fox Extension Division, U. A. C. The judicious buyer will not waste lime and carfare running to half-price j sales. Unless one really needs the articles ar-ticles advertised, and understands I quality, a sale is a good thing to stay away from. In these times, especially only durable material should be considered. con-sidered. For outside wear, serge, French serge, wool poplin, galatea.1 cheviot, Devonshire cloth, percale, audi gingham are most durable. j The mother of a family when buy-1 ing coats, suits, etc., will have aj thought for the future and make her selection with a view to possible t changes or making over. She will notice no-tice that the material is not cut into narrow gores or .freak styles which will he the mode only a short time. Some women when buying goods for a best dress purchase a yard or two extra for use In making over. For house dresses, waists, aprons, children's chil-dren's dresses, etc., one length will j cut to greater advantage than will sev-i oral short lengths. Our grand parents. I when possible, used to buy cotton goods by the bolt. Unbleached sheeting sheet-ing and unbleached muslin, which ma be bleached at home, in the sun, wears j longer than the bleached. i It is cheaper to buy towelling by the piece and make up at home than to buy the ready to use towels. Making Over The home dressmaker has the ad antage of using better materials than sho will ordinarily find in a ready made garment, and can make a dress at much less expense than If she purchased pur-chased one. If dresses are made at home It will not be a difficult task these days of combining materials, to make new clothes out of old ones Changes may sometimes be effected without taking a garment all to pieces, but where it is to be piade over into children's iH clothes, it should be carefully ripped, washed, and If necessary, dyed. Good jH pressing is a great aid to success. Nearly all kinds of serviceable cloth iJ will wash New woolen goods befort jJ being put into soap suds should bo soaked a half hour or more in clean iJ cold water. This will neutralize tha 'H chemicals used in finishing and oblit- jH crate that clom'.y condition one so MH often finds in washing woolens the llH If the father of the family happens H to be an office man his clothes will iH make over nicely for the small boys, , as usually the material is good. Many 1 a little dress has been made of one of , father's discarded shirts. When the upper part of a night dress is worn out, the skirt will make an under pet- I It is astonishing what one with a , little ingenuity may do with a hat, outside of cleaning and dyeing. The ; crown may be lowered by cutting off i and taking out a few braids. It may be raised by inserting a trip of buck- rum. It may be made smaller by slashing at the back and lapping over. i A simple arrangement, of ribbon will I give the higher-on-one-sidc effect. Don't laugh! but some mothers have J made a straw hat larger or smaller b i dampening and pressing over a bowl , or even a saucepan when she hap- ' pened to have one the right size and f Beautiful collars may be made from 1 scraps of all-over lace; using it, sa, for the fronts and joining together with silk, organdie or any suitable scrap of material. If saved, pieces of silk, lace, ribbon and velvet will often give just the touch desired. "Saving is good earning." Every mother should have a bag for scraps, and a trunk in the attic or jn a dry cellar for left over materials and partly worn clothing. Some member of the family or some friend will surely find a use ; for |