MAKING HATS.

Shannon News, 12 February 1929, Page 4

MAKING HATS.

40 CENTS EACH. (Christian Science Monitor). Durham, N.H. Eighty women measured, cut, sewed and blocked material enough for 90 felt hats and wore 80 of them from the Town Hall in Bristol. That is one day's record in co-operative home demonstration work by the Bristol Woman's Club working with Miss Hazel Hill, University of New Hampshire clothing specialists, and Miss Ruth Russell, Grafton County home demonstration agent. Mrs. Winifred Goodhue, chairman of the American Home Committee 'of the club, organised the affair on the modern Ibaisis of high 1 production when she learned of the enthusiasm at a similar meeting at Alexandria. The cost for materials amounted to 40 cents apiece. The record was made possible by the assistance of 10 women local leaders who met on the preceding afternoon at Mrs. C. B. Cavis' home and were shown how the hats are made so that they could help in the instruction the next day.

The problem of fitting and blocking 90 hats on three hat blocks with the aid of but two specialists arose. Mrs. Goodhue met this by inviting 15 of the club members to her home the previous evening where the preliminary steps of measuring, cutting patterns and cutting felt* were performed. In this way a continuous flow of work was made to pass through the specialists' hands during the entire nine-hour day. •