“The Woman’s Touch,”
by Jane S. McKimmon, Carolina Co-operator,
May 1935
Making Over the
Hand-Me-Downs
Hold on to all the old suits which your men folks are wont
to give away and see if you can’t be as ingenious as a Richmond County woman
who says, “My oldest brother, who is away from home, sent several old suits to
our younger brother thinking he might get some use out of them in his work on
the farm. One suit was a nice brown mixed material and in fairly good
condition. He had two pairs of pants and I decided I would try to make a suit
for myself out of them. I cleaned the suit, turned the pants upside down and
with a four gore pattern cut a nice skirt for myself, using both pairs of
pants. I made a few changes in the coat and behold! I had a lovely suit.
“I have received so many compliments on the costume and it
has given me such good service that I feel I will never let any old suits go
for farm work until I have looked them over and decided whether anything
worthwhile can be made from them.”
Man’s Suit from Feed
Sacks
Last summer at the Style Show held during Farm and Home
Week, State College, the son of Mrs. P.G. Sturges, Franklin County, modeled a
white suit which his mother made for him from heavy cotton feed sacks. The
slacks has been bleached and looked like linen.
Farm Women Enjoy
Their Club Houses
Sixty-five Home Demonstration Club Houses have been built in
rural communities of North Carolina which were equipped by interested farm
women of the neighborhood and are serving as meeting places for all kinds of
community activities.
If you are passing through Lee County, stop and see the
Dignus Community Club House, and observe another one in a beautiful setting
among pines and dogwood which is now under construction. It is just opposite
the attractive home on the hill of Mr. K.E. Seymour, chairman of the Board of
Commissioners, who gave the land and building.
In addition to the new club houses, home demonstration women
have furnished 70 club rooms in buildings where space was offered, and there
are 117 new applications for club buildings from 21 counties.
Some houses are built of brick or stone, but usually they
are fashioned of logs or lumber. The club house costs little in actual cash.
Interested farmers in the community usually furnish the logs and stone for side
walls and chimney; and the county ERA office has cooperated in furnishing men
to do much of the construction.
The main room is long and narrow, sometimes 50 by 25 feet,
and the logs furnish both an inside and outside wall of artistic appearance.
There is a kitchen in the rear planned for the convenience of those who prepare
and serve refreshments for community get-togethers, and practically all
communities have planted or are planning to plant the grounds to give the house
a proper setting.
Members of the North River Club in Carteret County have been
promised logs for their club house and are baking bread or cakes to raise funds
for other expenses.
At Waterlily an old house boat on Currituck Sound has been
anchored, furnished, and made into a cool and attractive club house for the
Waterlily community.
Rural women have taken great interest in making curtains,
rugs, and cushions for their club houses and are doing over or painting old
furniture which has been contributed.
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