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Show (SHOPPER'S CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY SAVE YOURSELF SAVE yourself, lady that's the best New Years resolution you can make, and the best economy you can practice. Now that the hustle and bustle of the holidays is gone, if not forgotten, settle down and figure out how you can save yourself your-self time, energy and work. Budget your time as you budget your money so much for the home, so much for your family fun, so eJlclil much for yl,r out" ipvr side work in church, SliisCi or club or Red FEATU? Cross, or even on a paid job. For maybe may-be you're the one out of every four married women holding down an outside job, in addition addi-tion to your first and most important impor-tant one of homemaking. Never before be-fore was labor-and-time-saving so important. Just the energy you expend on your ordinary household tasks amounts to plenty in terms of cost to yourself. A New York state authority au-thority recently made a test on the basis of the oxygen consumed by women during the following seemingly seem-ingly simple operations: preparing; and cooking of food, storing utensils and supplies, not to mention carrying carry-ing them from your market; making beds and doing the family laundry. She found that movements using only the arms used less energy than stooping plus arm-action. But she found that even arm-movements, a reach of as little as 10 inches from . one level to another, called for more energy, and that the most was consumed in reaching with the arms to the floor or near it. For, as she pointed out, it's not only the arms and that little piece of linen you're lifting, but a large portion of your body, too. So, anything that can save that energy for other jobs on your work budget new gadgets, or the best care and most use out of the gadgets you have, is of untold worth to every busy, budget-minded homemaker. Easier ways of doing a job and labor saving devices have become the American tradition. TRIPLE PLAY If you haven't spent all that Christmas money, here's a wonder-1 ful investment for you a combination combina-tion washer you can use for clothes, dishes, and a sink, all in one. Your electrical dealer will be happy to , get you one of these efficient time-savers, time-savers, if he hasn't it in immediate stock. And you'll love itl One mechanism and one set of 1 controls operate both the clothes and the dish washer, with a mere change of inner tubs to convert from one to another. And when you have that clothes washer so handy, it's a chinch to use it often, instead of loading up for that dreaded once-a-week washday that seems never to be done. Wash, rinse, and spin-dry, when you've done your dinner dishes, dish-es, without moving away from your own sink. That's an energy-saver and a disposition-saver, too. There's a new dryer, too, that your dealer no doubt has right in stock, that comes in handy these days when you can't use the back yard for your wash-line. It dries everything every-thing from silks and rayons to your heavier fabrics, to just the degree you desire for ironing, for it has time and temperature controls. It's a wonderful deal for your basement laundry, too, because it has a ventilating venti-lating system, and an ozone lamp, which gives those clothes the fragrance fra-grance of mid-summer sun-dried. No more of that moisture seeping from the basement, when you dry your wash this way. And think of the time and temper you save. |