Our home is a place to live in
IT MAKES me happy to know that my family think of our house as a place to live in, not just to sleep in. It was not always so. I made a god of my home before the family came. I made a fuss if there was...
View ArticleSchool years are difficult years
I SHOULD not like it if someone was continually criticizing me, yet that is what we mothers seem to do where our children of school age are concerned. Up to five years, everything a child does is...
View ArticlePre-war child discipline
A CRISIS in parenthood always arises when the need to give out punishment occurs. I am strongly against smacking children for wrong-doing. It only breeds resentment in a child, and can we expect it to...
View ArticleExplaining the facts of life to children
ASKING questions is a child’s way of discovering what life is all about. Children think diat an adult knows all the L answers. I try to make mine realize that this is not so, and quite often we set...
View ArticleKeeping little minds occupied
THE secret of having happy children is to keep their little minds occupied. For that reason I encourage my youngsters to belong to clubs and cultivate hobbies. I am a great believer in the Cubs and...
View ArticleParty and Christmas time games for children
EVERY child loves a party and delights in setting out with a gift wrapped in coloured paper and attractively tied. But to a child an excitement greater than going to parties is that of having a...
View ArticleGAMES FOR CHILDREN
Children of all ages love ‘Oranges and Lemons,’ ‘The Farmer’s in the Dell.’ ‘Forfeits,’ ‘Schoolmarm,’ ‘Statues,’ ‘Postman’s Knock ‘and the radio favourite ‘Twenty Questions.’ Then there are...
View ArticleCHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT FOR CHILDREN
No matter what parties the children have throughout the year, the magic of Christmas beats them all. You help the ‘tinies ‘with their cards; scribble loving messages for their gifts; help them to...
View ArticleThe family pet
WHAT home is complete without the family pet? A pet is a responsibility that someone in the family must shoulder, or it will be uncared for and unhappy. If you decide to have a pet, see from the start...
View ArticleWoman to woman
IT SEEMS strange to me that all through my life I have heard people discussing and arguing that ‘a woman’s place-is in the home.’ This is a man-made slogan and belongs to the days when a man married a...
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Guide To Woodworking Tools
Hand tools for Carpentry This section is divided into two parts covering the basic tools you really must have, followed by those that are worth having and which you may soon move onto. By then you will...
View ArticleSelection and Care of Tools
THIS section contains advice in the selection of a useful tool kit, and quite a number of tools are described, but it would be wrong to give the impression that such a kit must necessarily be ambitious...
View ArticleArranging and Equipping the Workshop
LIGHT, warmth, and dryness are the main requirements of the amateur’s workshop. Warmth it should be remembered does not necessarily ensure dryness, and indeed if the workshop is made too warm, it will...
View ArticleMaterials for Constructional Work
TIMBER is stocked at the timber yards in two forms; sazwn and prepared. Prepared timber is planed on some or all sides or edges, according to its intended uses. The planing of prepared timber naturally...
View ArticleSoldering Equipment and Technique
The procedure and materials necessary to efficient soldering vary according to the type of work, but there are general principles which should be observed at all times. The surfaces to be united must...
View ArticleUsing Secondhand Timber
WOOD from packing cases, tea chests and similar sources can be turned into many useful articles. The first thing is to take the box or case to pieces carefully. Generally the boxes that come to hand...
View ArticleFurniture Upkeep
THE preservation of furniture depends chiefly on regular dusting and polishing and a good furniture polish applied by vigorous rubbing with a clean, napless cloth: for a high gloss not only looks good...
View ArticlePolishes and Polishing
POLISHING may be employed to produce varying degrees of gloss according to the type of medium used. All must rely to some extent upon friction for the final levelling and smoothing of surfaces treated,...
View ArticleLaying and Repairing Linoleum
NEW linoleum is usually fitted by professionals employed by the retailers of the material, but when one is changing room furniture, etc., and when moving house, the programme generally includes taking...
View ArticlePaper and Paperhanging
THE goods normally offered for domestic repairs include ceiling papers, white and tinted; lining paper, a plain white or coloured paper used for improving wall surfaces prior to distempering, or prior...
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