Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-11-21
PUTTING AWAY CLOTHES.
How to Take Care of Summer Clothing
Through the winter Season.

Through the winter Season.
Although the putting away of the
summer clothes does not involve as
much labor or time as the winter, yet
the careful housewife knows that any
care expended on this work now is
amply repaid when the clothes are
wanted for use in the warm weather.
Some women who are extremely care
full when putting away winter cloth IS,
are very careless in regard to summer
clothing. If there are wooden goods
among them, such as soft, lightweight
flannel. SO popular nowadays that a
person's'wardrobe is not thought to be
complete lacking a suit of this kind for
summer wear, they are treated in the
same careful manner as those of the
winter. but the rest OF the summer
garments are but indifferently cared
for. AS moths do not thrive on diet
Of cotton, there is little need of pre-
caution in regard to their invasion,
consequently the summer clothing is
generally hung or packed away care
lessly.
4 There are some women. most exco.~
lent housekeepers, who when putting
away wash dresses, such as lawns,
cambrics, prints, ETC., always have them
mashed, starched and done up, so that
when taken out in the spring they
only need an airing to make them ready
for use. This is not a good plan, for
clothes put away in this way are sure
to cut. Clothes of this kind should
not be starched, but if they are, as in
the case of being ready to wear, and
the change of the season forbidding it,
the starch ought to be washed out, and
the garment put away rough dry If
the dresses are hung in a closet or
room, they should always be covered
with a cambria curtain. Long cambria
bags are used by some housewives for
putting away dresses, and where there
is room enough, they are excellent,
but where there is large family,
more particularly where there are
children, this plan could not be fol-
lowed successfully. Where a woman
has roomy house, she has very little
trouble in deciding where the clothes
shall be laid away, but where she is
cramped for room, it is hard to decide
what shall be done with them. Some
women, who was boarding, and was con-
fronted with this same problem, had
long, narrow pine box made with hinges
at the top, so it would open like trunk
This she lined with white cambria,
and covered the outside with cretonne,
first putting cushion on the top. In
this box she put her superf1uous cloth
Ing. Her winter garments were placed
In 1t In the summer, and her summer
clothing in winter. When closed it
made pretty divan, and with castors
on it could be moved to any part of
the room. A soap box, covered in the
same manner, answered the purpose
of a hat box.
All garments needing repairs should
be mended, if possible, before putting
away. 1t seems a little thing, and it is
mostly very convenient and tempting
to place them away just as they are,
trusting to mend them early enough in
the spring. Usually there is so much
to do at the latter season that the re-
pairing of summer clothing is wholly
forgotten, and only remembered when
wanted for use. There are few things
as discourging to housewife as pile
of summer clothes waiting repairs
when her time is required for other
work, consequently, if the summer
mending is done ere putting away, it
will not have to be done after the
spring cleaning, when the housewife is
exhausted in body and mind.
Wooden garments will need to be
cared for the same as winter clothes,
using a good piece of camphor, and
doing each garment tightly in news
paper or trunks, fastening the edges so
as to exclude moths. Sunshades brush
well, do up in paper and place away in
drawers or boxes. If hats with
velvet or feathers are to be placed
away put away the same as wooden
garments, as moths revel in feathers.
Lisle thread or any of the common
summer gloves may be washed in warm
suds, rinsed and dried, and they will
look almost new. Before putting away
the clothes make memorandum of all
the articles to be placed away, and you
will find it great help when readjust-
ing the family summer wardrobe
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