The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1888-07-21
WElL-kEPT CLOSETS.
How to Have Them, and How to Avoid
"CIutter Places"

| "CIutter Places"
Can VIC not slightly modify an old
and wise adage and find that "woman
Is known by the closet she kceps?"
| for closet indicates % q greater or
less extent. some traits In the average
| woman's character.
Have we not seen all kinds2 Look
| into this one-wc do not need % open
| the door, 'tis never shut-nOt "A hook
IS visible, each one being covered with
double or triple layer Of garments.
skirts hung by theiI bindings; waists
suspended by their collars -ruinou5
20 the fit-wintcr and summer clothes
promiscuously mingled; sOilcd aprons;
all go 10 make up part OF the general
confusion. On the floor boots and
shoes; cast-of pairs; old, new, knock
ing about any way; the shelves, II
there are any, crowded with empty or
useless bottles, or piled high with
boxes or baskets. Perhaps our own
closets may contain one or more OF
these evils How shall We remedy
thcmP
In the first place, keep the closet
door shut during the day, for an open
door Is one thing that gives an @ir Of
untidincss 90 the whole room On the
other hand, always leave the door open
at night. That Is the proper time 10
air the closet; It's then that the cham
bcr Is the coolest, and the daiIy-Or
rather nightly-changc OF air, prevents
any mustincss clinging 10 the gar
Incnts hung there. DO not hang your
winter and summer garments I'm tho
same closet. In the fall put away tho
summer drcsscs-thc cotton ones
washed and rough dried folded in an
empty trunk or box or hung in dis
used closet kept for The purpose. In
the spring do the same with the winter
garments One will find IL refreshing,
after putting-away Of this kind, to bo
able TO catch sight Of hook or two
that has nothing on H.
Hang up waists and skirts by loops
properly attached Ts not always
rs convenient, but it rcpays In the end.
Keep soilcd clothes from the closet,
unless In laundry bag,
II il n great deal more convenient TO
take pair Of shoes, polished and
clean, from II shOc-bag of linen or
ticking, hung on the inside Of tho
door, than il is TO strain ones back
STOPPING over and picking among half
dozen dusty pairs-to find the mates
ON the floor. II one has shoe bag
she will intuitivcly keep cast o0 shoes
out Of IT, Some Of these bags are mado
To cover nearly tho whole door; then
the upper pockets, made amy size con-
venicnt are used for soilcd collars,
cuffs and handkcrchicfs; and the scoro
Of little necessities. Keep only tho
bottles and boxes nccdful ON tho
shelves. This prevents one Of the dis
agreeable features OF house cleaning,
overhaulng the closets
In house recently built, the linen
closet had three or four immense
drawers, each largo enough 10 hold
two pairs Of blankets or Tho same NUM-
Der OF quilts, placed ON rollers; %
there Is not bacll-brcnking struin IN
opening the heaviest Of them.
My mother told me sho learned
when she was first married, ncycr To
put any thing away without "a purpose;
for, by little thought and "a little
careful engineering at the propcrti time,
she was saved the horror OF the annual
clearing out Of "cluttor place. w.
GOod HOuSckCCpi3g.