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Show ! THE HAPPY HOME By MARGARET BRUCE (Copyright.) The Day in Town The busy suburban housewife, keeping keep-ing up her home and entering Into J L ft?? practically every community activity, activ-ity, looks forward with mingled anticipation an-ticipation and dread to her occasional oc-casional day In the city. It is so hard to get away and there Is so much to lie done. She must first arrange ar-range for her "Martha - by - the day," give Instructions In-structions con cerning the children's lunch when they come in from school, leave the house In some sort of order, write out orders for the grocer and messages for the chairman of the Thursday club, dress, collect samples to be matched, make out a list, and get herself to the station sta-tion in time to catch the earliest possible pos-sible train. Then there are all the shopping errands. er-rands. New shoes for Inez, curtain materials for the bedrooms, change a pair of gloves, get a new hat for herself, her-self, see about a bathroom rug, price a china service for the parish house, order personal Christmas cards, a yard of filet, hairpins, elastic, veil. When is she ever going to do It all? Down In her heart she knows she will never get to the bottom of the list, but she struggles womanfully until she drops exhausted Into her seat in the suburban subur-ban train one lap ahead of her liege lord. Let me recommend a classified shopping shop-ping list for lime. Suburbanite. First, the "musts" the things that simply must be done. Forget all the others until these are accomplished don't be sidetracked by bargain tables, proximity prox-imity of other counters to be visited, or any other lure. After the musts come the "oughts" the things that really ought to be done. Take the most Important and attend to it and cross it off; then take the next important. Ten to one she will never get beyond be-yond the "oughts," but if she does, begin be-gin on the "mights." It "might" be done now, but could wait a week without with-out any harm. She "might" have time for it, but it isn't actually necessary. She "might" do without it altogether, even though she wants it. If JIme. Suburbanite achieves only the "musts," she will go home feeling that the trip has been worth while. If she accomplishes accom-plishes an "ought" or two, she will have a distinct sense of satisfaction; while if she slips in a "might" or so, her elation will not be dampened by fatigue, aching feet, or the knowledge that her hat is not on straight. A classified descending scale is the solu tion of many a distraught woman's day in the city. |