THE CHINA-MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY · 27, · 1951.
KNOW
WORK
INSTRUCTOR watches student snag sag in uphol- stered furniture-without getting spring in chin.
HO
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NOW IS THE TIME for all good men to light up their cigars and
workshop, who closes his eyes and contemplates a future in which
relax in their most comfortable chairs, is thought of this visitor to women, like the two above, will make all household repairs,
A BREAK FOR HUBBIES
AP leak? Window stuck? Toaster burned out? Hubby too
busy or too tired-to make repairs?
ПАРЬ
Two enterprising New York housewives, Mrs Lillian Baldwin and Mrs Grace Liebman, ran into that situation so often they decided to do something about it. Pooling their resources they hired a teacher to show them how to handle the odd repair jobs continually popping up in their homes. Then they opened the Know-How Workshop, where irritated women with unhandy husbands can learn to fix the parlour lump or upholster his favourite chair. Thanks to these women, the little lady now can learn which end of the hammer hits the nail and even perhaps goad her husband Into activity through sheer envy of her initiative.
Believing that the best way to learn is by doing, the workshop instructors first teach pupils the names and uses of
the simple tools usually found in the home. Then they are put to work repairing window shades, replacing fuses, rewebbing upholstered chairs, patching broken plaster and solving plumbing problems.
Students are taught how to mix paint, how to varnish or stain furniture and how to remove paint and varnish spots when their brush misses its mark. They even learn how to rig up a hummock in the back yard for hubby's relaxation.
The school is conducted with an eye to the women's spare time. Classes in the four-and-a-half-week courao are conducted twice a week for two hours each. Students may attend morning, afternoon or evening sessions, depending on whether their husbands work the day or night shift.
REPAIRING an iron without a short circuit will be
only a simple chore from now on to this housewife.
WOULD-BE FIXITS find that now wire, a plug and a screwdriver mako a ́lamp work again. The students get a smattering of almost all hourg-repair crafla in 13-hour COBITE..
STANDING in front of an array of tools that would make any craftáran gresit. with envy, a little lady is taught which to use for a purticular repsig job in home.:
PROPER WAY 10 plug leak in plumbing is demon❤ strated by Grade M. Liebmari, co-founder of school.