GREASING THE WHEELS AT HOME
Sheridan, Mary
Greasing The Wheels At Home By MARY SHERIDAN MRS. ROOSEVELT, in a recent column, praised the work of Mary Brooks Picken, known as America's "foremost sewing authority," in helping women learn more...
...The latter part of the book is a helpful and sensible discussion of mending men's clothes, reviving suits and ties, repairing linens, curtains, upholstery, and rugs, removing stains and spots, making over dresses and coats, and making children's clothes...
...Don't sew if you hate it," Mrs...
...1954), 10 cents from the Superintendent of Documents, and Cooking with Soya Flour and Grits, free from the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. . . . If you like rich Southern cooking you'll like the recipes in Florence Brobeck's modern revision of an old cookbook, Fifty Years in a Maryland Kitchen (Barrows, $2.50) ; the "receipts" demand a lot of cream, fat, eggs, and wine, but they're fun to think about...
...Picken's Sewing for the Home...
...Mrs...
...Our grandmothers, i suppose, would snort at the idea of any woman needing.a book to tell her how to wash clothes...
...it's free from the Joseph Burnett Company, Boston, Mass...
...Picken has taught thousands of women to sew, and during wartime she has guided many more who want, or have, to know more about sewing...
...A whole book devoted to the family wash and special laundry problems has just been published, called The New Washday, by Eleanor Ahern (Barrows, $1.25), and it goes thoroughly into the jobs of soaking clothes, efficient use of a washing machine, hanging clothes on the line, starching and bleaching, and washing blankets, dresses, sweaters, and blouses...
...This is a paper bound book with a convenient red spiral binding, and it should be genuinely useful to beginners...
...Picken advises, "but remember, to get the full enjoyment out of sewing, you must learn the simple, easy ways to take each step...
...Over the years, Mrs...
...The "simple, easy ways" of mending are explained very clearly in her latest book, Mending Made Easy (Harper, $3), which is a companion volume of Mrs...
...Miss Spear's advice on painting and refinishing furniture is good, but that information is widely available...
...Wartime fabrics—whether it's dress material, draperies, sheets, towels, or underwear—are too often sleazy in quality, limited in selection, and high in price...
...This costs five cents...
...I would probably be handier with a machine gun than with a needle, but Mending Made Easy, I can testify, is practical...
...With Hammer And Saw Unless you're naturally adept with hammer and saw, a book like Make and Remodel Home Furnishings by Ruth Wyeth Spears (Barrows, $2) may make you gnash your teeth and wish you'd spent the two dollars for better paint or fabric...
...I know enough to know that over-hauling jobs aren't that easy...
...Do You Know How To Wash...
...This book would be grand gift for a bride...
...She tells the equipment you need, how to use a sewing machine, how to handle fabric, explains stitches, darns, and patches, weaving, and reinforcements...
...All this is made clear by hundreds of illustrations—I wish the book were cheaper, but the illustrations explain why it isn't...
...is a clever folder of recipes for young fry who show any interest in taking over the kitchen this Summer...
...Partly from choice and partly from necessity, more people are, in that fine old New England phrase, making do...
...1497 from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. * * * New Pamphlets And A Cookbook What's Cooking...
...Picken wisely takes nothing for granted...
...Two new Government pamphlets you may want to own are Making a Dress at Home (Farmers' Bulletin No...
...order Bulletin No...
...When she gaily discusses new seats for chairs, building sofas out of steel cots, making lamps out of spools, and repairing springs, I gasp in admiration and confess the directions, despite some good illustrations, are over-simplified...
...ROOSEVELT, in a recent column, praised the work of Mary Brooks Picken, known as America's "foremost sewing authority," in helping women learn more about the arts of sewing and mending...
...Just as complete and even more detailed, however, is the pamphlet, Methods and Equipment for Home Laundering, prepared by the Textiles and Clothing Division of the U. S. Bureau of Home Economics...
Vol. 8 • June 1944 • No. 26
