The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-17
PUTTING AWAY CLOTHES.
How to Take Care of Summer Clothns
Through the winter Season.

| How to Take Care of Summer ClotheuR
Through the winter Season.
! Although the putting away of the
summer clothes does not involve us
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 clothes,
are very careless in regard to summer
clothing. If there are woolen goods
among them, such as soft, lightweight
flannel, so popular nowadays that a
PERSONS wardrobe is not thought TO be
complete lacking 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.
There are some women. most excel
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 u good plan, for
Il ,,,t 4 l.,
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 closet or
room, they should always be covered
with a cambric curtain. Long cambric
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 woman
has n 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 u trunk
This she lined with white cambric,
and covered the outside with cretonne,
first putting cushion on the top. In
this box she put her superfuous cloth
ing. Her winter garments were placed
in it 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 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 a 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.
Woolen garments will need TO be |
cared for the same as winter clothes, |
using II 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 woolen
garments, as moths revel in feathers. |
Lisle thread or any of the common
summer gloves may be washed in warm
suds, insed and dried, and they will
look almost new. Before putting away
the clothes make a memorandum of all
the articles to be placed away, and you
will find it n great help when readiust-
inc the family summer WurdrObe-I