Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-24
HOW 10 PACK.
Practical Suggestions on Shipping Clothes

Practical Suggestions on Shipping Clothes
Philadelphia Press.
The art of packing is by no means a common
accomplishment, and the comic pictures which
represent the girl of the period despairingy sit
ting on her trunk while the maid-of-alEwork
yainly endeavors to lock it and the expressman
ciamors at the door are scarcely as much ex-
aggerated as one might suppose. 1t is always
disagreeable and difficult to pack i'm hurry;
therefore, it is wise to begin i'm season. say at
lie asst day before it seems at all necessary to do
SO. See that your trunks are i'm order and allow
ample time for any repairs which are to b
made, for mechanics, as many of Us know to our
sorrow, are more apt to make fair promises
than to keep them.
After the trunks are ready, get every thing 10
gether which is to be packed and then 60
quietly and Systematically to work. Very large
trunks are an abomination over which express
men groan and swear, not altogether without
reason Still, short ones are announcement, ex-
cept for short journeys, and multiply expense,
as the eKpressage is for each piece be IL Sara
toga trunk or small valise, without regard to
size But whatever the size of the trunk, it
should be filed or at least packed full enough
to prevent the contents from tossing about. Ii
you are compelled to take a trunk which is too
large for what you need to pack in it, ill it
with crumpled paper rather than leave it
half empty. Even experienced travellers have
only partial idea of tie rough usage to which
baggage is subjected, how remorsely trunks are
pitched about. The train stops for two minutes
perhaps, and your new Saratoga is thrown-not
liited-from the baggage-car down on the plat
form, and then knocked around pitched first on
one end and then on another until it would
seem asthough every fastening must be wrenched
out OF place. In this condition of affairs unless
the trunk is closely packed the contents will be
literally churned up and down. and the clothes,
which you Nave carefully folded will be tumbled
TO a degree, even If nothing worse comes to
them.
There are expressmen and eXpressmen and
1t once happened 10 the writer to fall in with an
accommodating one in a moment of extremity.
AT the Last minute it was discovered that the
key Of a trunk was missing. having mysteriousy
disappeared from the lock, nor to this hour has
1t ever been found Got a stout rope marm."
One was produced and he precdeded to tie up
the trunk across each way, knotting the cord
scientifically. There, now, that'u hold. You
see it's better to have the rope both WAYS. SO "a
the top can't come Of trunk straps pretty
good, but ropes better, cause it goes both
for long Journeys
Nothing heavy, like books, &C., should ever
oe put In the top of a trunk, since the more
heaviiy 1t Is weighted the more likely the hinges
w vi Gun. ULYSSES shOuiu DC carefully folded,
with the founces laid smooth and drsw,ing
strings let out, the waist folded but once the
wrong SIDE out, with the sleeves laid over the
Dack ana the fronts over all. Then N Absolutely
necessary, the basque may be folded again down
the middle seam OF the back but never across
Packing trunks for ball dresses come WITH SOW.
efai trays one ABOVE the other. each capable of
holding one dress and its -accessories Al the
Parisian modistes, where professional hackers
are employed the art of dress-packing is carried
TO perfection. The dress is taken. and n n ia
separate rom the corsage. IL can be laid IN the
tray with only slight fold at the ton of the
skirt The train is spread out first: then every
puff or fold is kept up by soft waSs ~
yellow tissue paper, white having been
found to darken white and Se,,catol.
tinted satins. This Is to preyrnt the cress
ing or crushing to which velvet and s.fin
are particularly liable. Large sheets OF
the paper are then placed over the whols The
waist is next taken and laid out fat like n ~
upon the paper-covered skirt The sleeves ara
nlied with paper 50 a. TO retain the share made
oy the arms; every button Ia covered with panor
and under bead fringes, &C., are laid pieces OF
paper 10 prevent dlscoloration or cutting. Over
the whole u then placed final layer. When ton
beside the paper, a sheet Of the finest cotton
oanng, soch e. florists use n placed over "a
and, 10 turn. over this Q layer Of oil silk. M,
!, "a 2 precsnuon against the penetration Of damp
cievsr Amaican notion is that a sd,uutsb,,
- ~. w%oe nay be ntted TO any trunk. ThDs
lape intfice-work, and are fitted IN, when e
slreo oy means Of adjustable end-piecss. whiA
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