PLAN No. 712. ARTICLES YOU CAN MAKE AND SELL
The following articles could be made by you and sold. They are necessary to the household and will appeal to the housewife.
Each article is easily made up. Give a name to your article so that you may have the advantage of repeat orders. To commence with you will have to solicit your work. You will find that a neat pamphlet telling of the value of your article distributed two or three days before you call will be a great assistance to you.
PLAN No. 713. SHOWER BATH
A very simple, convenient and cheap arrangement for a home-made shower bath has been built by a woman. Take a 2-gallon tin bucket, punch a hole in the bottom of it, and solder in the opening a piece of metal piping 2 inches long. Attach to the pipe a 4-foot length of rubber tube, with a sprayer from a garden watering-pot on the end. Tie to the handle of the bucket a piece of rope and run the latter through a staple driven into a wall at a suitable height, thus making a pulley by which the bucket can be raised or lowered to meet the convenience of the person using the shower. Drive a hook below the staple so that the rope can be fastened to it to hold the bucket in place. A good-size wash tub placed beneath the bucket will serve for the person to stand in. To cut off the water a clothespin pinched on to the rubber tube will do. The cost of the shower bath will be as follows:
| 2-gallon tin bucket | .50 |
| 12 feet of rope | .07 |
| Rubber tube and connections | 1.50 |
| Piping | .10 |
| Stock | .10 |
| Staple | .10 |
| 1.87 |
PLAN No. 714. DUSTLESS MOP
Another of the conveniences showing a woman’s ingenuity is a dustless mop for painted or polished floors. The mop is made from old stocking legs cut into 12-inch lengths and slashed into strips an inch wide up to within 4 inches of the tops. For a handle cut the straw from a worn out broom. Take a large wooden button and cover it with several thicknesses of stocking, then fold the tops of the stockings so that they radiate from a common center and screw them to the end of the broom handle through the button. Tie twine several times around it just below the button. The mop is then dipped into a solution of one-half cup of paraffin and one cup of coal oil (kerosene) and allowed to dry. Keep moist by rolling tightly and pressing into a paper bag.
PLAN No. 715. SCRUBBING CHARIOT
Another woman’s invention is the scrubbing chariot, and it is one of the cleverest of labor-savers. This consists of a comfortable, padded frame on rollers, which enables the housewife, in wiping floors, to roll herself about and do her scrubbing with ease and comfort and save a great many steps. An ordinary soap box can be used for this by cutting down the sides to about five inches high and knocking out one side. Padding made of burlap will make it comfortable when kneeling, and the whole thing is placed on four rollers and stands just the height of the rollers off the floor. On one side of it should be screwed a dish for soap and on the other a rack for the scrubbing brush.