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Show FARManiHOMEto ' UTAH STATE EXTENSION SERVICE ACBICULTI'RB HOME ECONOMIC By Mary Lois Reichert Home Demonstration Agent UPHOLSTERY SCHOOL Plans are well underway for a 5 -day upholstery class, to' be held early in 1955. Each day will start at 9 a.m. and continue con-tinue through the day until 5 pjm. Women who are interested interest-ed in taking this class are urged to contact me by calling 2 4 6-J in Roosevelt, or dropping in our office in the Frandson Building. - F & H -How To Introduce Burtons Buttons and clothing seem to have no natural attraction for each other. Each wants to go its own way. Their association can become more lasting if proper pro-per connections are made when they are . first introduced to each other. Here are a few suggestions for making lasting connections between buttons and dotting: 1. Make a small knot in double dou-ble thread (15 inches long). Fasten to article where center of the button is to be placed. Take two or three stitches over the knot. 2. Sew the button in place with one or two stitches. See that the stitches run in the same direction as the buttonhole. button-hole. 3. Place a pin on top of the button under the first stitches. This makes a shank. Continue to sew on the button. Take as many stitches as necessary to, hold the button securely. When the stitches are in place, remove re-move the pin. Lift the button away from the artide. Wind the thread around the stitches and fasten the thread. Window - Type Cartons Help Sell Eggs Picture windows may become the style even in egg cartons. Housewives like to see the eggs ' they buy, according to evidence recently gathered in tests in the East. Research, people designed window-type egg cartons which provide more open space in the cover than cartons now in use, and tested them in super-markets for effect on sales. Three types were used, each having a different amount of window space. The evidence strongly suggests that the cartons with the biggest windows see the most eggs. The window cartons were tried after previous studies in egg marketing showed that more than half of the customers custom-ers who bought eggs, hesitated before choosing the package they were going to buy. Nearly one-fifth of the customers. 18 per cent, handled the dosed- -type cartons now in use com- paring weights, feeling the tops, viewing the eggs through the end of the cartons or opening open-ing the cartons before making their final choice. |