WHERE WOMEN WASTE TIME.

Shannon News, 26 February 1926, Page 1

WHERE WOMEN WASTE TIME.

"Only last week, I spent a whole morning darning Peter's socks." sighed Joan, "and now look at them! They are beyond repair this time and all my good'work is wasted." Of Cours e her "work was wasted! Joan happens to be one of those good women whose stern sense of duty is apt to lead them astray. She would think it wrong to refrain from mending any of the family's garments so long as there remained the faintest chance 6f. making them 'fit £o wear." The consequence is that, she frequently wastes time in repairing things that oughi to oe consigned 10 the rag-bag. Another mistake common to women of Joan's type is to endeavour to make at home frocks and lingerie wihch could be bought at any good shop almost as advantageously. The good women who worry about the allocation of their husband's income waste no end of valuable time trying to eliminate "cost of labour." from their weekly budget. If they must work overlap-©, let them t work at their own job, not at that of'someone else who is better equipped for it. I They produce ill-made clothes, badlyfitting chair.covers, devastating wall decorations rather than pay the fees jof dressmaker uph'olstress and j house-painter. I More often than not, in the long I run, the work has to be done all Over I again. Why not spend the time in thinking out a line of their own and earning the money with which to employ professionals? Few women are so gifted that they can run a house, attend to the children, make clothes, recover chairs, paper the walls and generally act the part of the: female Admirable Crichton. It is the good woman's sense of loyalty and responsibility that o'ften lands her in difficulties; that is the ' pathetic part of it all. But a little thought would indicate the jobs she can do well, and those which ate ter left to someone else.