The Arizona sentinel., 1888-07-21
WELL-KEPT CLOSETS.
How to Have Them, and How to Avoi
 s'Clutter Places"

How to Have Them, and How to Avoid
 "Clutter Places.''
 Can we not slightly modify an old and wise adage and find that ''woman is known by the closet she keeps?' for closet indicates, to greater or less extent, some traits in the average wOman's character.
 Have we not seen all kinds? Look into this One-we do not need to open the door, 'tis never shut-nOt hook is visible, each one being covered with double or triple layer of garments, skirts hung by theiI bindings; waists suspended by their collars-ruinous to the fit-winter and summer clothes promiscuously mingled; soiled aprons; all go to make up part of the general confusion. On the floor boots and shoes; cast-off 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 them?
 In the first place, keep the closet door shut during the day, for an open door is one thing that gives an air ot untidiness to the whole room. On the other hand, always leave the door open at night That is the proper time to air the closet; 'tis then that the cham Der is the coolest, and the daily-or rather nightly-change of air, prevents any mustiness clinging to the gar ments hung there. Do not hang your winter and summer garments in the same closet. In the fall put away the summer dresses--the 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 it refreshing, after putting-away of this kind, to be able to catch sight of a hook or two that has nothing on it.
 Hang up waists and skirts by loops properly attached. 'Tis not always as convenient, but it repays in the end. Keep soiled clothes from the closet, unless in a laundry bag.
 It is a great deal more convenient to take pair of shoes, polished and clean, from a shoe-bag of linen or ticking, hung on the inside of the door, than it is to strain ones back stopping over and picking among hall a dozen dusty pairs-to find the mates -on the floor. If one has a shoe bag she will intuitively keep cast off shoes out of it. Some of these bags are made to cover nearly the whole door; then the upper pockets, made any size con- venient, are used for soiled collars cuffs and handkerchiefs; and the score of little necessities. Keep only the bottles and boxes needful on the shelves. This prevents one of the dis. agreeable features of house cleaning overhauling the closets.
 In a house recently built, the linen closet had three or four immense drawers, each large enough to hold two pairs of blankets or the same num- Der of quilts, placed on rollers; SC there is not back-breaking strain II opening the heaviest of them.
 My mother told me she learned when she was first married, never tC put any thing away without a purpose for, by little thought and little careful engineering at the proper time she was saved the horror of the annual clearing out of "clutter place. "- Good Housekeeping.