The Archive · 1921

Household Job Classes

A series of "Odd Job" classes im connexion with the Daily Employment Depét are being held in London as an experiment to sce if there is a demand for such teaching. The subjects taught will be chair-caning, setting up springs, res: at-ing chairs, electric lighting bell repairs, renewing washers, mending locks, and elementary car-poutering. They are intended for any women who care to come to them, and the charge is 1s. per'lesson. It is felt that there are many women who cannot afford to pay the prohibitive prices charged at present for simple household odd In spite of what people say! jobs, and who would be glad to against needlework nothing can! know how to do these themselves, This fashionable coat frock hes a long racked bodice, and two-piece gathered skirt with floating side panels.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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