The Archive · 1926

A Practical Eve

Women paviors ure having particularly happy results, owing, as one well-known professional explained, to their keen straight eye for detail, colour matching, and cutting out, a bump chipped off here and a corner chiselled off there giving them all the satisfaction of a "perfect fit." One woman recently, of anything but robust physique, laid out her entire garden unaided, with paved paths stone seats, sunk plots, and a minis ture terrace, her only implements Jeonsisting of her husband's old trenching tool, a chisel, hammer, and jan old dinner knife and fork! Honor Stuart in Glasgow Herald."

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