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In the little hallway by the outside 

 doov was hung: the necessary brooms 

 and brushes and the closet contained be- 

 sides a few hooks and a high shelf, the 

 laundry bag, ironing- board, vacuum 

 cleaner and carpet sweeper. 



The gas stove stood on legs in the 

 usual way but in order to provide storage 

 space for roasting pans, spiders and big 

 kettles the legs were taken off and the 

 stove placed on a cabinet of the right 

 height having sliding doors and three 

 big shelves. One lack was still felt and 

 that was for more table space so a small 

 but strong stand was brought in and a 

 drop leaf put on each .side. The top was 

 raised and two .shallow drawers placed 

 underneath, an open shelf inserted lower 

 down and the whole placed on castors 

 so it could be moved wherever needed. 

 A roll of paper towelling was fastened 

 to the wall near the stove and this little 

 kitchen was as handy as thought and a 

 few tools could make it. 



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Mrs. Howard has had hei- sink raised 

 to the correct height, the water barrel 

 enclosed and covered. She has also had 

 her ironing board hinged to the wall so 

 that she does not have to carry the heavy 

 board back and forth from store room 

 to kitchen. Then because the kitchen is 

 small and there is no place for a table 

 Mr. Howard has built a hinged table 

 in under the ironing board and this serves 

 very nicely for a breakfast table. A 

 small improvement which she has made 

 but one that is a great labor saver is 

 the partitioning of the drawers in her 

 kitchen cabinet. One drawer has been 

 partitioned off into two parts and one 

 into three parts. This saves time when 

 she is looking for a certain knife and 

 she also finds it sharp because it has not 

 been banged against so many other 

 knives. 



Both Mrs. Burt and Mrs. Howard feel 

 that their kitchens are much more con- 

 venient as workshops and are passing 

 the good word along to their friends. 



Two meetings have been held on the 

 Furniture Renovation work. Seventeen 

 chairs have been reseated. Thirteen re- 

 caned and four had the grass seat. More 

 seats are being worked on and next meet- 

 ing we are to start on the refinishing 

 of furniture. 



Spring Millinery Popular Seasonal 

 Project 



The hats made this spring at the Ex- 

 tension meetings have been of various 

 sizes and .shapes and made of numerous 

 different materials. The small hats have 

 been in the lead and the combination silk 

 and straw or all silk are very popular. 

 For trimmings ; pleatings, braiding, cord- 

 ings, folds, handmade flowers and ribbon 

 wheels have been used very successfully 

 to give that "chic" look to the hats. 



The Mothers' Club of the First Church 

 has done a real piece of work with the 

 millinery project according to the report 

 sent in by Mrs. H. A. Hopkins, Presi- 

 dent : 



"The millinery class conducted by Miss 

 Boice for The First Church Mothers' 

 Club ha.s proved the most interesting and 

 profitable project we have undertaken. 

 There were twelve in the class and as a 

 i-esult of our two lessons (Spring Milli- 

 nery) thirty-one hats wei'e made at an 

 average cost of $2.00 per hat. The most 

 expensive one cost $3.94 and the least 

 expensive one forty-five cents, that pay- 

 ing for the frame, the satin used being 

 old material and the trimming used was 

 braid wheels, the braid being part of a 

 discarded hat. 



Besides learning how to make hats, the 

 experience taught us confidence in our- 

 selves foi' when we started we all said, 

 'Oh ! I never can make a hat' ". 



Five Junior Members Make Hats 



There is a real community spirit in 

 Packardville. When it was time for the 

 women to take up spring millinery they 

 decided that although Saturday was a 

 hard day to leave their work the meet- 

 ings should be held on that day so Miss 

 Alice Collis and her club girls might at- 

 tend. 



Five of the girls made hats and they 

 came out in fine .shape. The workman- 

 ship of the girls' hats compared very 

 favorably with the adult hats and more 

 than that they were very becoming. 



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in conjunction with Mr. 

 Payne. For this reason we had a num- 

 ber of visitoi's besides our regular mem- 

 bers. To make the meeting interesting 

 to everyone, Miss Tucker gave a general 

 talk on the health of clothing which ap- 

 plied to both adults and children and nu- 

 merous silk and wool finishes were taught. 

 The garment under discussion for this 

 day was the little boy's suit. Mrs. Ing- 

 ham and Miss Clark both brought in 

 suits next time which they made as a 

 result of this meeting and they had the 

 side pockets and cable stitch done real 

 nicely. Of course a meeting on boys' 

 clothes would never be complete without 

 patches so both hemmed and overhand 

 patches were taught. 



At the last meeting we found a number 

 of W'omen present who had been visitors 

 the time before. They felt they had re- 

 ceived so many helps they wanted to come 

 again (and they were not all mothers 

 either ) . Mrs. Fuller brought several 

 pretty dres.ses, a coat and a bathrobe 

 which she has made using helps she had 

 received from the meetings. 



For this meeting Miss Tucker showed 

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