NURSERY LABOUR-SAVING

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 190, 1 November 1927, Page 5

NURSERY LABOUR-SAVING

Few mothers seem to realise the value of crepon and sponge cloth as savers of money and work in the nursery. Little garments made of these materials need not be ironed. They are just rinsed through as easily as you wash your hands; they dry very quickly and are then ready for wear again. You need three times as many garments for the children if starching and ironing have to be considered, and they have to be held up for a weekly wash-day. The initial expense is also lighter, for both fabrics are quite inexpensive. An excellent plan is to get a number of yards in several shades and make sets of rompers and overalls, using the same pattern, but a different colour scheme for each; mauve piped with lemon, lemon piped with mauve, pale blue piped with mauve, etc. For cold weather, the rompers should be made with long sleeves to cover the dress or suit completely. In warmer weather they can be worn with no thick garment underneath, and for real heat waves the little magyar rompers with tiny sleeves are the only things necesSix sets in each style will cost very little, and will prove a boon to the busy mother. The child is always uniformly and sensibly dressed, so that he can get as dirty as he likes and he freshened up again with a minimum of work. Even the mother who employs a nurse find it worth while. So many Mothers stress the point that their nurse must be a needlewoman, yet they get very little real sewing done by her because she is kept busy starching and ironing in the evenings. She lias a right to some hours of leisure for her own sewing, and somehow the dajs pass with no real needlework done for the nursery. And in the winter the child’s woolly suits las£ much longer, because there is r.lways a clean romper to cover them and the wool is subjected to one washing where otherwise it would need four. i D.P.