Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-22 | Page 4 | Girls Making Own Dresses

mini 0MES5ES Extension Work of U. A. C. Meeting With Success in Rural Districts The work among mothers and girls of the county, being conducted under the auspices of the extension division of the Utah Agricultural college, by Miss Ellen Agren, in home economics, and Miss Rozine Skidmore in dressmaking. dress-making. Is being splendidly supported they announced today. "At Kanesville yesterday although it was a stormy day, there were twenty twen-ty young women in my class." said Miss Skidmore, who further reported that interest in remodeling and homemade home-made dresses is very pronounced at tho presont time of high prices. "Our work a little time ago was very discouraging. We found that women had made so many economies during the war that thoy naturally wanted to "spread" themselves a little and buy liberally. But now It is different. Their visit to the stores sends them back to the farm disheartened. They don't know what they are going to do. And when vu show them what economies econ-omies can be effected by the use of intelligence and with tho aid of mod em methods in tho home, they arc delighted. de-lighted. One of tho representatives of a Inrge house publishing dress patterns pat-terns told me the other day that never nev-er in the history of his concern was the sa'e of patterns so large as now." Meetings are to be held today at Huntsville at 1:30 nl North Ogden at 10 tomorrow morning, and Riverdale j tomorrow evening at 7.