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Homemaking More Joy Than Burden In Age Of Science
THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA. FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1936.
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What Every Young
Bride Should Know
Housekeeping Is Really A
Business, Says
Author
By C. M. RIPLEY
Well-Known Writer and Lecturer
On Domestic Problems
A N UNMARRIED person is like one
A ese of a pair of scissors”, sai¢
Benjamin Franklin. Most of us
agree with him. At least most of us
are married, or will be, some day.
Many young people will take the
matrimonial plunge for the first time
this month, “for better or for worse’—
and for thirty years—if the marriage is
of average duration. During that time,
approximately $18,000 may be paid for
rent, $4,600 to have the clothes wash-
ed, $6,000 for two different kinds of
fuel, and perhaps $20,000 for food—
just to mentien
a few items.
Housekeeping,
when you an-
alyze it, is
really big busi-
ness! Like all
businesses, it
requires good
management
on the part of
its partners.
Unlike the
old days, when
housekeeping
__C. M. Ripley
was a ceaseless round of drudgery,
homemaking today requires but a tenth
of the labor, if you call in modern
science and engineering as a third
partner, At the mere press of a put-
ton here and there, an army of tireless
electrical servants go to work, quietly,
“talk back”, and never ask a day off.
Best of all, it has been proved that they
actually pay for themselves. Sounds un-
believable, but it’s true; I've proved it
right in my own home, and have seen
Get Important Things First
Old-fashioned equipment will waste
thrice over the money that would pay
for the modern appliances. So start
right—get the important things first.
Insist on having an electric kitchen,
home laundry, air-conditioning, and
an automatic heating system. You will
live better, and at less cost, when your
equipment is complete. Thousands of
families have found this to be true.
Fortunately for today’s homemaker,
liberal finance plans making ownership
of these labor-saving devices practic-
ally burdenless are available.
Too many married couples invest
only the crumbs of their incomes In
these essential things, spending the
bulk of their earnings on a round of
profitless pleasures that are not really
pleasures at all, since they produce no
lasting happiness.
The prospective homemaker of today
need not _be a “bride for a day, and a
servant for the rest of her life.” The |
grand - |
mothers were not only tiring and mon-
otonous, but were actually more ex-
pensive than those of the modern elec-
trical age. Happy indeed are they who
recognize this fact and profit by it!
Electrical
Helps
Electrical servants
operate economicaily and
save time and labor,
while they keep the bride
and the home trim and
neat.
and up
| This
Year’s June Bride is Luckiest of All |
pares
= By Constance Hart
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Modern Science Has Brought
New Ease of Living With
| Host of Aids
That Contribute to Health
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HOW ME the June bride who isn’t assis about a bright new home and AGC
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husband who will love her forever. , 2
The nicest part of dreaming today is that you can make your dreams LL
come true. You can have that lovely home. You can keep yourself gay and;
charming, so that your husband will always adore you!
Science Contributes
Never did science contribute so
much to happiness as it does this very
day, Beggaring Aladdin's ‘genii, it
stands ready to aid in a thousand and
one ways, every minute of the day.
I don’t think I have to tell you how
hard housework used to be, before the
chen and laundry!
most exciting adventure. For surely
(You don’t want to turn your June
bride beauty into July drudgery. Sure-$
ly you don’t want to lose the very}
things your husband loves you for— 8&3
Simplicity Should Keynote
Entertainment, Says Expert
HOSTESS SHOULD EXPRESS INDIVIDUALITY
By EDWINA NOLAN
Popular Authority On Home Economics
SR TIME is party time—impromptu parties, when friends drop im
casually on newly-weds, also invitation parties which may be as informal
or as elaborate as you choose. The secret of success, however, is not to make
hard work of hospitality—Iet simplicity be your keynote.
Select your parties according to tastes. Invite people who like to play oe
fashioned games—their number is greater than they themselves imagine, if
once they can be started. Another evening, have bridge players. On another
ask those who like to talk seriously; and on another, invite those who like to
turn on the radio and dance. It’s really don’t be too lavish and smother things : i
very simple ; always have a plan for Tden a blanket of parsley—pimento—
ph t rh _|sliced eg: radish roses, cucumber
her ainment of your guests—a flex Tings or stuffed olives,
ible plan which will serve as an im-
i 3 In choosing the refreshments yom
petus to keep your party going and|yin serve, it is well to decide on foods
still allow people to follow their own| which can be prepared before the par
inclinations to a degree. jr ki which will need a minimum of
Food is an important part of any | ost-minute (prebaration. Your, clecifis
refrige 1
party. Here time spent in careful plan-' rgerator sill prove » io ihe. yous
right hand man — salads, desserts.
ning will pay dividends. Use your im- | :
ein atin a i sandwiches, canapes, beverages — ald
food should may be prepared hours ahead of tue
have style and {and will be crisp and fresh, ready ia
beauty. It must {serve when you need them. ] i
please the eye As for the matter of table settings Trams
as well as the" the hostess has an opportunity to ex-
appetite. Em- press her individuality. She may
phasize con- choose between dainty voile, organdy
trasts in flav- or net and the sturdy brilliantly col-
or, texture and ored peasant weaves of both linen and
color — have cotton for her table cloth or doilies and
foods both. hot napkins. Delicate china and glassware
and cold. Yes, versus heavier, brilliantly decorated
one hot course and vividly colored dishes and glass-
isdesirable ware—and the new vogue for metals.
even in the Clever hostesses are using the smark
warmest wea- 4 new articles of chromium, aluminum,
cher. If good digestion is to wait on copper and pewter as a gleaming &c-
appetite and good health or both, we |cent. Mirror accessories are also smart
must not change our diet too radically |—they give an illusion of space and
from hot foods to all cold foods, so brightness.
serve a hot soup, vegetable, bread or| With such a varied and vivid choice
maybe a hot fish or meat dish. Accent before her—the homemaker will do
your bland foods with a bit of some- |well to stop—look—and listen. Choose
thing crisp and sharp. Garnish care- |carefully—plan your entire table set-
fully with a nice eye for color, but ting—and then assemble it.
( ,Edwina Nolan
days of electricity. Your mother knows.
She heated flatirons on her stove. She
labored over wash tubs. She grew tired
and weary in a big old-fashioned kit-
chen that took her strength and robbed
her of her beauty.
But 1936 June brides can keep
young for years to come. They have at
their fingertips numerous servants that
work at an instant’s notice—that nev-
er tire, never go on strike, and never
complain!
. So I suggest you plan your new home
carefully. See that it has adequate
wiring and all the outlets you will
need. Consider the comforts of air-con-
ditioning. And do, I beg you, budget
freshness, youth, companionship and a
readiness for fun.
You know how speedily electrical
servants work. An electrical ironer
turns out men’s shirts in four minutes
flat, without a wrinkle or crease—as
perféct. in fact, as the custom laundry
does it. And if you've ever seen an
electric dishwasher work, you know
how housework’s most beauty-robbing
task becomes a pleasant, speedy job—
how dishes gleam with undreamed-of
brightness! You know, too, how care-
fully modern kitchens are planned, to
save steps and minimize work!
And here’s a suggestion you both
might follow—for the valuable aid it
you ever have an opportunity to see
the “New American” Demonstration
homes which are being constructed un-
der the Federal Housing Act be sure
to study them. It will truly be a ‘house |
that works”, for it's planned from mal
inside out, to insure the best possible
working and living arrangements. In|
this home you'll see a whole array of |
electric servants .
thrill you to your tienda laundry that |
is the very last word, and a heating |
system that’s simple, economical and |
highly efficient! This home will open |
your éves to a whole new pattern od
living. Study the really modern homes |
before you build your own. Then plan |
. a kitchen that will | 3
Automatic
Hot Water
your income to include an electric kit-- will prove in planning your home. If
for one like them.
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ELECTRIC RANGES
Down a week
Ask about Free
Connection Offer gery.
Start right with electric cookery.
For the first meal by “Her’”’
A new home . .. new happiness . . . new sur-
roundings . . . make the picture complete with
modern electric cookery. She is entitled to the
ease, convenience, cleanliness and coolness of
as low as
today’s electric range in her spotless new kit-
$27.50 chen.
S83 The happiness and pleasure of preparing that
$5.00 $1.00 first meal by “Her” will extend over thousands
of meals, with the automatic features of the
electric range doing most of the kitchen drud-
That's a wise decision
which will reflect sound
judgment every time a
hot water faucet is
turned on, particularly
as this electric service
can be had for as little as
14c a day
With an endless sup-
ply of hot water avail-
able automatically for
dishes, baths, laundry,
other uses, things do run
smoother around the
home and dispositions
remain happier.
Complete hot water
$500
service is a necessity . . . Down
and to get it electrically
is the modern, econom- $100
a wee,
ical way.
NTY GAS AND ELECTRIC CORP.