HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



HOME MAKING 



MISS TUCKER STARTS CHILDREN'S CLOTHES 



NEW PROJECT- ! PROJECT COMPLETED 



"CARE OF CLOTHES" 



Six Towns Participate in Meeting 

 Held at Northampton 



About fifty women were present at the 

 first meeting on the project "Care of 

 Clothes" given by Miss Marion L. Tucker, 

 State Clothing Specialist, at the People's 

 Institute. Six towns were represented ; 

 Southampton, Northampton, Easthamp- 

 ton, Williamsburg, Amherst and Hatfield. 



Miss Tucker presented her subject 

 matter by the lecture demonstration 

 method and, having divided the project 

 into two meeting's, used for her subject 

 this time "The Daily Care and Seasonal 

 Care of Clothes", particularly stressing 

 the storing proposition. She had a 

 wealth of illustrative material to bring 

 out the points she suggested on closet 

 arrangement — such as various kinds of 

 coat hangers, pant hangers, skirt hang- 

 ei's, poles, shelf rods, shoe bags and dress 

 covers — everything that may be bought 

 or made for a small amount of money 

 and that will add to the ease in caring 

 for the wardrobe. 



Shoe trees and clothes brushes had 

 their part in the program and the latter 

 led us right into the subject of "seasonal 

 care". The one point emphasized was to 

 have clothes clean when put away. Great 

 stress was laid on the protection from 

 clothes moths. Several suggestions were 

 given and a bulletin which eveiy house- 

 wife should have was recommended. 

 It is Farmers' Bulletin 135.3 and the title 

 is "Clothes Moths and Their Control." 



The next meeting is to be April 22nd, 

 Tuesday afternoon at 2.00 P. M. at the 

 People's Institute, Gothic Street. At this 

 meeting Miss Tucker will take up dry 

 cleaning, pressing, removal of stains, etc. 

 This part of the program should also in- 

 terest the housewife whether she sews or 

 not. 



HOME HAPPENINGS 



Westhampton Women Report 

 Improvements 



At the extension school held in West- 

 hampton in early winter an informal talk 

 was given on "kitchen rearrangement" 

 and home demonstrators signed up to 

 carry out some of the improved practices 

 in their home. Already Mrs. Lydia How- 

 ard, community project leader, repoi'ts 

 that Mrs. George Burt has had her sink 

 raised to the correct height, a shelf be- 

 hind the stove moved out under the look- 

 ing glass where it is more convenient, 

 a hinged shelf placed near the sink to 

 take the place of a table and the kitchen 

 walls painted a bufi^ color. 



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(iranby Group Makes Splendid Itxhibit 



Last Septembei- when we had an or- 

 ganization meeting at Mrs. Charles 

 Goldthwaite's the Granby ladies were un- 

 decided whether they wanted to take up 

 the project of Children's Clothes or not. 

 Those who had children were anxious to 

 take it, but those who had no family were 

 rather dubious as to the help they would 

 leceive from such a project. 



Alter the Home Demonstration Agent 

 explained to the group that there were 

 not enough communities taking up the 

 clothing project so she could have a train- 

 ing class, and if they chose this project. 

 Miss Tucker, the clothing specialist, 

 would give the subject matter to them, 

 a vote was taken and children's clothes 

 won out. 



At the first meeting Miss Tucker made 

 rompers. These were very popular, 

 especially the little pair that are made 

 with the binding and can be made in an 

 hour. All the ladies who have no chil- 

 dren made a pair of these to give away 

 as part of their project work (probably 

 because they were the quickest to make 

 but then who can blame them?) But 

 rompers were not the only things taken 

 up at this meeting. All kinds of stitches 

 and button holes had to be made right 

 there while Miss Tucker could watch 

 them. And it was reported that some of 

 the ladies wore surprised but they really 

 knew how to make better button holes 

 after that meeting than they did before. 



The good word spread and for the sec- 

 ond meeting we had a larger attendance. 

 This was on the bloomer dress. The 

 majority of Mothers had little girls so 

 of course there was enthusiasm about 

 this meeting and to prove it the next time 

 Mrs. Fuller, Mrs. Moody, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. 

 Bray and Mrs. Baker brought in dresses 

 they had started or made as a result of 

 the meeting. Because little girls adore 

 pretty dresses. Miss Tucker laid emphasis 

 on decorative stitches and showed some 

 fine examples of what might be purchased 

 for suitable trimmings for . children's 

 clothes. 



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MAKING THE MOST OF A 

 LITTLE BUNGALOW KITCHEN 



By Airs. Clifton Johnson, County Home 

 Management Project Leader 



It is only 10 x 10 feet and when the 

 new couple moved in held a small white 

 sink set into a corner with one set tub 

 on the right of it covered with a white 

 enameled drain board. This, with a 

 window next to it below which was a 

 radiator took up all the space of one wall. 

 The outside door which opened into a 

 little hall out of which the cellar stairs 

 descended, a small built in cabinet and 

 a closet door occupied the next w-all. The 

 space opposite the sink was taken up 

 with a bedroom door and the gas stove; 

 and the hot water tank and dining room 

 door took most of the remaining wall. 

 It was apparent that only by making the 

 most of every inch of available space 

 could the kitchen work be carried on to 

 advantage. 



The sink coiner was the first problem 

 to be tackled. A glass shelf was placed 

 over the sink to hold the necessary clean- 

 ing powders and below it was hung a 

 wall dish drainer a yard long. Its ample 

 size made up for having only one drain 

 board. The high stool and metal waste 

 basket slipped under the sink and at one 

 end of it hung a small covered garbage 

 can tilted at such an angle that it would 

 drain into the sink. The towel rod was 

 placed on the wall at the left. To the 

 right over the radiator beside the window 

 was fastened a folding clothes dryer. 



The refrigerator was placed in a space 

 left for it by the builder beside the built- 

 in cabinet only this space had to be made 

 higher to accommodate it, and this cut 

 into the already too scarce cupboard 

 room. To ofl'set this narrow shelves were 

 inserted between some of the wide shelves 

 in the cabinet which was evidently 

 planned by a man who had no idea of 

 what was to be placed there. These nar- 

 row shelves were just right for spices, 

 small articles and packages of supplies. 

 Small uten.sils were hung on the inside 

 of the door and wherever there was a 

 bit of room on the sides of the cabinet 

 or under the shelves with the result that 

 the capacity of the interior was nearly 

 doubled. The moulding boaid and bread 

 board were hung on the outside of the 

 cabinet and the rolling pin placed on two 

 hooks close under the upper part over 

 the wide shelf. The upper drawer just 

 below the wide shelf was divided in the 

 middle and lined with tin, one section 

 being devoted to flour and the other to 

 bread and cake. The housewife dis- 

 covered she could reach the top shelves 

 by pulling out the bottom drawers to 

 stand on and so she didn't have to keep 

 a step ladder handy. 



