HOME ECONOMICS

Evening Star, Issue 22447, 18 September 1936, Page 12

HOME ECONOMICS

DISPLAY OF WORK A display which should attract a good deal of attention from the housewives of Dunedin is being conducted this afternoon ,and to-night in the Concert Chamber by the Otago Home Economics Association. The exhibition is held every two years, and every article on display was made by a member of one of the 13 branches of the association. The display was officially opened by Professor A G. Strong, of the Home Science Department. A survey of the stalls gave one an idea of the many functions carried out by the association. In one corner was a stall on which the exhibits were literally “ made from nothing.” A tent made from . several 2001 b flour bags, candlesticks and watering cans made from old tins, and a rug made from odd samples of tweed were only a few of the exhibits, a complete catalogue of which would be impossible. On another stall were shown some of the uses to which old felt hats could be put. Pictures, silhouettes, and toy birds were amongst the articles on exhibition. The art stall contained many examples of patient arid painstaking work in tapestry, pewter, copper, and needlework, and even old newspapers, but the outstanding exhibit was a hand-made silver tea service, while there was also some very fine hand-painted china. Another stall contained woollen goods, knitted and crocheted garments and toys made from wool. On a separate stall was a display of antique work, including a Sevres cup and saucer used by Napoleon, a cen-tury-old flint, wineglass rinser, and a Spode teapot and sugar basin dated 1790. There was also a candlestick owned by Thomas Carlyle and a volume entitled ‘ Practice of the High Court of Chancery in Ireland,’ dated 1724. Probably one of the most interesting exhibits in this section was a design worked in human hair by one of the pioneers of the province. A health stall also contained a display of nutritive foods made from wheatmeal and nature ' foods. Other stalls contained displays of raffia and-twine work, preserves, and savouries and cakes.