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The women who had freezer* or electric mixers Spent more time on home preparation of foods than those who lacked these conveniences. Miss Wiegand says that those who had electric mixers often did more baking at home. Most of i the freezers were in farm homes and farm homemakers prepared more complicated meals than city homemakers, the study showed. .The farm homemaker in this study averaged more than 7 Vfe hours a day on house work plus about 1 Vi hours on farm or other work. The full-time homemaker in the city averaged slightly over 8 hours a day on housework, The employed city homemaker averaged more than 4Vi hours on home and garden tasks plus abo\it 7 hours paid employment. Thus the employed homemaker had the longest working day.
About a fourth of the homemaking time of all these women was spent in preparing food. Employed homemakers spent almost as much time getting meals as fulltime homemakers. As might be expected, food work took most of their working time at home after their employed work. A number of these busy women rated the pressure saucepan high for saving time in cooking.
The study showed that meals for smaller families of '3 or 4 persons took about as much time to prer pare as those for larger families of 5 or 6 or more, but cleaning up after 2-person meals took only half as much time as cleaning up after meals for 6 people, often because of the many food utensils used in preparing and serving food to younfc children.
New Flame-Resistant Finish
An improved flame-resistant finish for cotton cloth, much superior to previous treatments, has been developed by U. S. Department of Agriculture scientists at the Southern Regional Research Laboratory, New Orleans, La., in Cooperation with and on funds supplied by the Army Quartermaster. The new finish may in the future be used to make safer uniforms, tents and other cotton fabric items for the military. It may also someday be used to make cotton cloth for civilian clothes—work garments, for example, or camper’s or woodsmen’s outfits, or fire-resistant cotton goods for women’s clothes or for curtains, bedding and upholstery fabrics.
Two fire-retardant chemicals, previously used in separate “flame
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