Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-02-19
THE MODERN CLOSET.
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The dainty woman has so decided. The
architects are now giving as much atten-
ton to the closet as to the family sit
ting-room, and when they have done
the woman herself puts on the finishing
touches, reports the Washington Star.
City apartments, and even fats, as
well as houses, show closets that are
quite as perfect in arrangement as any
other room in the house, even though
they are small. In one corner of the
modern closet is a basin with hot and
cold water faucets, and over the basin
an electric light button.
The walls are quite as daintily tinted
as those of the drawing-room, and the
woodwork is usually enameled. If
thereas room for a chest of drawers, it
is white. like the woodwork, and has
brass knobs and trimmings.
Not an inch of space is wasted in the
modern closet. On the side which is
devoted to clothing is a shallow shoe box
with a lid. This is built in the walls and
runs the length of the closet. 1t, too,
is painted white and has brass hinges.
Several enameled boards are placed
along the wall. the lower one being at a
convenient height for hooks to be in
serted for clothing. These shelves are
useful for hat boxes and other odds and
ends of the wardrobe.
This arrangement of the shoe box and
shelves makes a liele wardrobe by itself,
and it is quite the fad to keep the dust
away from the gowns by hanging dainty
curtains before the lower shelf. Some
times the shelves are left bare, but they
often are made more attractive in APP
pearance of putting crepe paper on them,
letting two or three inches extend be-
low the shelf. The paper is tackled here
and there with a brass-headed thumb
tack, and between tacks is gently pulled
out to make 1t look like a ruff1e. The
yellow and pink chrysanthemum, the
wild rose Oh the violet papers are espe-
cially dainty for this purpose, and are
so durable that they will not need to
be r~eplenished more than twice a year.
Crepe paper is also used to cover the
hangers, in place of silk or satin. A
dozen hangers at five cents apiece, a roll
of crepe paper, a few yards of No. 5 rib
bon to wrap the hook, a sheet of cotton
for padding and a pot of glue are all
the accessories required to make the
hangers more attractive.
1t is astonishing what one roll of crepe
paper will do. If the closet is not too
large, it will cover several shelves. hang
ers and a bandbox or two. Instead of
the hat boxes, bearing on the covers the
trademarks of various milliners, some
thing akin to the charming old band
boxes Of our g~randmothers' days are
made.
An ordinary hat box is lined, cover and
all, with pale pink, pale blue, yellow or
white tissue paper, merely pasted at the
edges. If pink is chosen for the lining
pink chrysanthemum paper is used for
the outside. A broad satin ribbon to
each side of the cover, Joining in the zen
ter and tying in a big bow on top, finishes
the box.
If the box is very large and admits of
more than one hat, milliner standards
are placed inside to set the hats on, so
feathers and flowers will not be mussed
as the weight of the hat rests upon them.
Instead of ugly pasteboard boxes
which bear the labels of the articles
they contained when purchased, all the
boxes which hold corsets, odds and ends
of laces and other useful things are COW
cred with figured crepe paper. This COY
ering not only beauties the box, but
the corners, so that the re-
ceptacle will last twice as long.
If the closet is not large enough for a
shoe box, shoe and slipper bags are used
for the door, with large enough slips to
admit Of shoe trees as we'll.
Above all things else, the up-to-date
closet has a siold clothes hamper OF
laundry bag; the latter, of course, COM
plete with darning needles and cottons
to do the weeks mending.