The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-08-05
Places for Things.

hon a place Tor everything and every
an ling in its place." is an adage familiar
in D us all and full of wisdom. But to
u .eep everything in its place. one
rmust have place for everything. and
this it is not always easy to have Many
houses are built with alamentable want
of closets, for closets are expensive in
room, material and labor. In planning
house they are frequently, if not gen.
orally, an after-thought, and are thrown
in where space for them can best be af-
forded. When women plan their own
houses there will be ample allowance of
closet room. If one has plenty OF mon
ey, cabinets, wardrobes, chests, can be
bought that are at once ornamental and
useful, and form part of the furnishing,
but the main dependence of the average
housekeeper must be closets. These
when furnished with shelves, drawers
and rows of hooks, are an unspeakable
comfort and convenience to the order
loving housewife. In city houses where
everything is constructed with view to
economy in space, we often find them,
but in the average country house very
rarely. - .'
So there must be recourse to bureaus,
boxes, bags, chests and unprovised
closets. The last may be constructed
wherever there is space to put a shelf,
and may be of the size of the shelf in
length and width Hooks screwed into
the bottom of the shelf will serve to
hang garments on, and curtain may
be hung on rods fastened to the shelf.
A valance tackled above the rods on the
shelf will form more complete protec-
ton from dust than the curtain alone. In
many rooms that are closetess a corner
can be spared, and may be made either
into a triangular or rectangular closet,
as suits the fancy or convenience.
Weights sewed into the hem of the
curtain will keep it in place. Goods
boxes make very useful closets, for
kitchen or cellar use. Shelves may be
put in them, and the covers, hinged
properly, serve as doors With a COW
ering of paper or coat of paint they
may be made not unpleasing to the eye.
Shoe-boxes, used by shoe-packers, are
very useful as substitutes for closet
room. The covers should be hinged to
the box, and these neatly upholstered,
to form pleasant seat. Furniture
calico fastened around them in ruffies
or folds conceal the angles and the
wood, and converts utility into beauty.
Room can readily be found for these.
and they fill the places of chairs or
lounges quite well. Soap boxes and
candle boxes and starch boxes make
very convenient receptacles for small
articles if they have covers hinged on,
and are lined with paper and covered
On the outside with pictures or calico
pasted on. A couple of hinges. less
:han dozen screws, little time, taste
and odd pieces of paper or cloth, may
oe made to transform an ugly box into
thing of useful comeliness
Bags in every variety are needed by
the housekeeper. A stout piece of nice
bagging makes good clothes-bag; and
an end of rope should be sewed into the
hem, so the top of the bag may always
be Hospitality open. One of these hung
in every bedroom is indispensable, and
makes the gathering OF clothes for the
weekly washing a very easy matter.
Shoe bags are great convenience, and
can be made so as to hold one or
dozen pairs of shoes, and keep them
from gathering dust and mould in
closet corners, beside preventing the
veXation of hunting them up when
wanted. Scrap-bags are a necessity,
and may be made very ornamental by
the exercise of taste. They are indis-
pensable in every room in the house.
ms cad of bags, baskets or jars may be
used, and these can be made handsome
by the exercise OF skill and taste.
Wall-pockets and brackets are very
great cOnveniences where one lacks
closet room and shelf room. The
former may be made of splints or
pdsteboard covered with cloth and
trimmed with cord and embroidery. A
wall-pocket with many compartments
tackled ON the inside of a closet door
may serve many valuable purposes,
especially where there is family of
children and great many things
Lying round" A label on each pocket
will help keep things in the right place,
and prevent the shoe-laces from getting
mixed with the calico pieces or the
knitting work
1t takes time to create places to put
things in, and it takes time to keep
them in place, but not more time than
1T takes to hunt them up when they
may be anywhere and everywhere and
belong nowhere. The satisfaction of
knowing that at a moments notice, in
the middle of the night or in broad
daylight, one can put her hand on
whatever in her domain is called for,
is a great satisfaction to the orderly
housekeeper, and one which she will
contrive one way or another not to be
without ~ Y. Tribune.
0uapn Charlotta TsIandS and fha ua;doS