Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1918 — Uncle Sam Becomes Teacher And Adviser to Every Home On Materials for Household [ARTICLE]

Uncle Sam Becomes Teacher And Adviser to Every Home On Materials for Household

A new book just Issued on "Materials for the Household” Isof Interest to every family. It was prepared by ths bureau of standards in popular language to meet the need for reliable information for home nse and will be especially welcome to an who desire to manage the home as efficiently as * modern office or shop. In this work Uncle Sam becomes teacher and adviser to every household. Interesting accounts are given of the great variety of materials used in building and furnishing the home and in the many minor industries and activities of the household. The circular is practical and alms to stimulate interest in household materials (other than foods and drugs), to explain their desirable properties, and to aid in their intelligent selection, effective use, and preservation. A better utilization of materials will aid the efficient administration of the homo and promote the health, comfort, and general well-being of the household. Home economics is of universal and permanent concern, and as its importance is more fully realized it will become a vital factor in national wellbeing, says Commerce Reports. The excellent instruction in the subject now given in high schools and colleges has begun a new era in home management. This circular is a contribution from the bureau of standards to the growing literature in this field. Household materials are of added interest- to the housewife and student from the fact that formerly many such, materials were made up in the home. The making of soap, candles, yarns; and fabrics, leather, sugar, alkali, wax, tallow, pens and inks formed an interesting group of the old-time household industries. In fact, most modern industries are the outgrowth of what were originally household industries. The modern factory has taken up these home industries, and already some social control over the quality, form and: price of factory-made products is beginning to be felt through agenciee such as the consumers* leagues, co-op-erative societies, publicity in the public press, misbranding laws, government control and the like.