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Mrs. C.C. Barrett, a Pantry Demonstrator in the Grand Prairie Home Demonstration Club in Dallas County, shows her 850 containers of canned food of seventy-five varieties. In 1933, in spite of protests from her husband, Mrs. Barrett earned sufficient money working outside the home to purchase wire and posts to fence three-quarters of an acre as a garden. She built most of the fence herself and started a year-round garden. In 1934 she purchased a pressure cooker and built the first pantry shelves. The next year she bought a sealer, and her husband built new pantry shelves and made improvements in the kitchen. The canned food shown here was organized into groups including jellies and preserves, pickles and relishes, fruits, leafy vegetables, starchy vegetables, other vegetables, meats and miscellaneous. Note the Texas Home Demonstration labels on all the cans.
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The built-in ironing and sleeve board is only one of the many conveniences installed in the dream kitchen of Mrs. Joe Naiser of the Taiton community in Wharton County. Mrs. Naiser planned the modernization of her kitchen and gradually executed that plan over several years. She turned a dark room into a very bright one and rearranged the room to save footsteps in the performance of her many chores. Having all of her ironing "tools" under the ironing board was only one of several economies Mrs. Naiser planned. As part of the same project, she remodeled the back porch to make it a popular spot for family relaxation. Being the talented woman she was, Mrs. Naiser did much of the carpentry as well as the painting and decorating. In the days before permanent-press clothes, rural Texas women spent many hours at their ironing boards every week.
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