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Show START A LITTLE I HOME FACTORY A New Book Creating Widespread Interest This new book in being circulated widely throughout the country by The National Home Products League an organization for the promotion of the weliarc of the home, advancing plans nd ideas whereby women may earn in the home without seeking employment in mills, factories, stores or shops. The purpose of the book is to familiarize familiar-ize women with such methods as they are now using to earn a livelihood. It 19 creating widespread interest in the entire subject. Mrs. Alden tells women bow to earn money iu womanly ways. One is struck by the number of original and novel occupations mentioned. Its value in every home from Maine to Oregon will be more thau transient. It is breezy ami inspires confidence and women will find it a comfort to have iu the home. There is hardly a woman who may not seme day be called upon to earn and this book may save many an anxious hour. 1 he first efforts of this organization is to deal with home manufacture of goods 'vhih can be sold by the maker in her. i own locality, without the aid of the belling organization of the League. Later '.he manufacture of articles in the home : to be sold widely through the League I U to be taken up. Those who are interested in earning who wish to consider the making and j selling in their own locality, articles of I borne manufacture, will receive full ' Information by writing to The National Home Prod acts League, 277 Broadway New York City. t If the book, "Women's Ways of Earning Money" is of interest, the cloth edition may be secured by mailing $1.00 to the League. One of the profitable lines of man a- j facture advocated by the League, is the, j treatment of any inexpensive cotton cloth' with a waterproof fluid, then making in' 1 the home waterproof aprons, overalls, rain coats, bay covers, wagon covers, rain cartains for carriages and automobile, folding water buckets and bath tubs, , The cost of waterprooSng cloth by such 1 methods docs not exceed two cents per j ; yard and produces a material superior to I nv other to be had and very light weight. ! There is a great local demand for such ! goods, especially when they can be sold at only a fraction of the cost of rubber : material or rubber substitutes, which are , usually very heavy iu weight and lost but a short period of time. I |