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HOMEMAKERS ASKED TO 

 KEEP SAVING FATS 



The great need for fat salvage is 

 no secret — the United States wants 

 fat for soap and other manufactured 

 products, and foreign countries need 

 it for food. Yet only 62 percent of 

 America's homemakers are actually sav- 

 ing and using all the fats that come 

 into their kitchens, says Miss Frances 

 Cook, foods specialist. University of 

 Illinois College of Agriculture. 



It is estimated by the Consumers 

 News Digest that 500 million pounds 

 of fat could be salvaged each year, but 

 one-half of this potential goes down 

 the drain. During 1945 salvaged fats 

 were used for nearly one-half the toilet 

 soap produced, all of the laundry bar 

 soap and about 25 percent of the heavy- 

 duty packaged laundry soap. 



Now additional demands are being 

 made upon the fat supply to help im- 

 prove the meager food stocks abroad. 

 "With this urgent need for food, it 

 seems inhuman for any one of Amer- 

 ica's homemakers to waste fat," states 

 Miss Cook. "Yet one-third of them do. 

 And this third is without question con- 

 tinuing to buy its share of the avail- 

 able soap. 



FRONTS FOR FALL SUITS 



BUFFET SET TO SAVE TABLES 



Crech«tad in light and cI<h4c cotton, thlt 

 pottom b odaptobl* t« many ninnor nood*. 

 Shown hore Is tot of thro* pioce* for 

 bvffot. Attractiv* for tabic, vanity and 

 bwroous. Savoi fumlturo too. For fro* 

 Instructions s ond onclosod solf-oddrossod 

 •nvolop* to Wemon's tditor, illinei* Agri- 

 cultural Association Rocord, 60S S. Door- 

 bom Stroot, Chicago S. III. 



Here's a chance to pep up your suit with o 

 brave new front. The checkerboard dickey 

 is swell for tailored wear, for sports try 

 the plaid gingham, and for the completely 

 feminine the organdie dickey. For free 

 instructions send a self-addressed stamped 

 envelop to Women's Editor, Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association Record, 608 South 

 Deari>ern Street, Chicago 5, III. 



Hancock Serves Lunch 



Mrs. Emmett Dunham, Plymouth, 

 president of Hancock Home Bureau, 

 reports that Hancock Home Bureau 

 members had a stand at the Hancock 

 County Junior Fair and served plate 

 lunches (a balanced diet) at 55 cents. 



"The concession which our organi- 

 zation had at the County Fair proved 

 to be a financial success and a beautiful 

 job of cooperation among the Home 

 Bureau members," writes Mrs. Dun- 

 ham. 



Swine Show, Sept. 16 



Midwest 4-H and vocational agricul- 

 tural members will enter an estimated 

 700 to 900 barrows they have fed and 

 fitted at a swine show featuring market 

 hogs at the Chicago stock yards, Mon- 

 day, Sept. 16. 



Edgar county has scheduled Vee 

 Powell, Chicago, hat designer, for Sep- 

 tember 6, in Paris. 



HERE'S HOW TO MAKE 

 YOUR GARDEN LILY POOL 



Many persons who would like the 

 attractive, cool appearance of a lily 

 pool in their garden hesitate to attempt 

 it because it is considered too expensive. 

 But according to S. W. Hall, floricul- 

 turist. University of Illinois College of 

 Agriculture, it is possible to build an 

 inexpensive pool, too. 



A small, reinforced concrete pool can 

 be constructed by the home owner him- 

 self at a very moderate cost, and a less 

 permanent pool can even be made of a 

 wooden washtub or a halved wooden 

 barrel at still less expense. 



Supplying the pool with running 

 water will of course increase the water 

 bill, but so long as the water is changed 

 occasionally, running water is not es- 

 sential. The water can be siphoned out 

 or, better still, a drain can be provided. 



"If your water-garden is to grow suc- 

 cessfully, it must be placed where it will 

 receive full sunshine," says Mr. Hall. 

 Then, too, it would be well to consider 

 the rest of the garden when deciding 

 on the location. The pool should be a 

 definite part of the garden — not a 

 feature that has strayed away and be- 

 come lost. 



PATTERN FOR PILLOW SLIP 



Here's a stylised embreidory pattern with 

 all-over design combining myrtie groon, 

 rod and bluo. Embroidery Is worked en 

 linen-like fobric of regular weave. Makes 

 crttroctive pillow top or liandsome cord 

 table cloth. For free instrucHons onclos* 

 self-addressed envelope to Women's Edi- 

 tor, Illinois Agricultural Association Record, 

 60S S. Dearikom Street, Chicago 5, III. 



SEPTEMBER, 1946 



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