Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1910 — HAVE REGULAR MENDING DAY [ARTICLE]

HAVE REGULAR MENDING DAY

Wise Housewife Will Set Aside a Period for the Repair of All Her ' Clothing. There is nothing on earth like system; and nowhere do you realize this more than in matters of dress. The tiny hole in your stocking, that you might have mended in two minutes, grows Into an undarnable “run"; the rip under the arm in your new blouse extends alarmingly; nothing that must be mended stays “where it is put.” The remedy for all this is a regular mending day—or a regular mending evening, if you are a business woman. As soon as a garment needs mending—if it be only a button or a hook that must be replaced—put it aside, unless it is so necessary that you must attend to the trouble at once; and when mending day rolls around do the required sewing. You will be surprised to find how much lighter your work becomes when you can thus catch rents and tears at their start instead of at their disastrous finish. The other point to remember is always to have your sewing implements where you can get them and in perfect order. Do not wait until the very moment for mending to find that you are out of white thread or that your needles are rusty. When a thing needs repairing, repair it; when it needs replacing, replace it. It might even be a good thing to have a regular "preparation day" to antedate the mending one.