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F A 0 Teaches Family Living By The Editor Beds with "springs" of chicken- wire, woven metal bands or burlap sucking, were mode in different sizes to be stacked for e:onomy of space in a small but. When I was in Rome this summer. I spent one ~f the most educational afternoons of my life wth Miss Elsa Haglund, a home economist with We Nutrition Division of the Food and Agricul~ Lire Organization. Miss Haglund is a Swedish woman, resource- n]. practical, creative and understanding. She aches nutrition and, I imagine, almost anything [5e bearing on human welfare: and it seems to «e that one of her projects to improve family Wing is an outstanding example of how an effec- Me worker in what we call “underdeveloped coun- tes.” meets the needs of the people. This particular piece of work was done in the iribbean in an area where family life suffered - rough traditions handed down from slavery days hen marriage and family ties were often taken ;h;ly. Slave owners wanted slave children to born but many of them discouraged slave :arriages â€" breaking up a family when a mem- ‘r was to be sold was likely to cause troubleâ€" -me emotional upheavals. There was also conâ€" ierable delinquency among young people, obâ€" )usly due partly to housing conditions that ovided only one bedroom for the whole family. iss Haglund decided to attack these problems by 1y of a home furnishing project. One of the first ventures was to get the people to provide beds for their homes â€" a bed for the parents. one for the boys and one for the girls. But the huts were so small that three beds would leave room for little else. Miss Haglund‘s solution was to make beds of three sizes that could be stacked together like a nest of tables. She in- terested the men and the boys and girls as well as the women and taught them to make wooden frames or bedstead: with a resting surface or "springs" of whatever materials were at hand. Some were made of chicken-wire, some of strips of burlap sacking interwoven; the most satisfao tory material was the flat metal banding used to tie up bales of merchandise for shipping. Speâ€" cial beds like little hammocks were made for babies 7 the father building the frame and the mother making the mattress and filling it with a localegrowing moss that could be removed for washing. Miss Haglund‘s next step was to get the parents to move out of the common sleepingroom. One of her ways of doing this was to show that if they had their bed in the living-room it could be made into a very goodâ€"looking day bed, with a special covering and home-built shelves and cupboards anoining. Fathers mode frames, mothers the mattres- ses for this type of baby's bed,