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Show Housekeeping is Fun With the drudgery of former days removed by means of mechanical appliances, ap-pliances, scientific homemaking today is real fun, says the household research re-search bureau of Peoria, 111. For one thing less labor is performed perform-ed in the home than formerly, while on the other hand such home work as is still necessary is acomplished with a fraction of the physicl effort the housewife was obliged to put forth in the past. In two years the commercially made bread output has increased 12 per cent, while the broom output fell oft 17 per cent at a result of the further inroads of vacuum cleaners. Production Pro-duction of needles and pins fell about 18 per cent, showing how ready-made garments have supplanted home sewing. sew-ing. Fifteen years ago there were only 50,000 electric washers in use. while the end of 1929 will find 7,500,-000 7,500,-000 of them lightning American home labors. These and many other interestirtg home facts have been compiled by the household research bureau, which is conducted by the makers of ABC washers for the study of women's social so-cial and economic problems. They show that with the aid of mechanical appliances home-making may be a real pleasure, and an occupation to challange the interest and skill of the most gifted woman. |