The San Francisco call., 1904-03-12
INSTRUCTIVE JTUDIEC
BY lNOIEDAG,lNN AND
AIOMEN'

is enough to lay them one on another.
first making sure that they are smooth
when laid.
The upper tray remains for hats and
anything else. Most trunks have boxes
for hats, but where there are none it
is easy to make the hats safe by tying
them in with tape. 1t is simple mat
ter to catch the tapes where wanted
by means of small tacks.
Boots should be thoroughly busted
before packing. and then, being in good
order, should be wrapped in cloth bags.
This protects them and makes it safe
10 place them in any part of the trunk.
There is nothing more hurt by pack
ing than books. Even with the best of
care their backs will wear off and their
bindings loosen. One who loves books
well will put corners of each cover into
protecting triangles, which any book
dealer should be able to provide, and il
each book is wrapped in manila paper
that Will also prevent much of the wear
and injury. If one has large library
by all means have boxes made of size
to hold books of the same height. When
one is packing he is quite likely TO wish
that all books were of a bigness eX-
ternally, for it is very difficult 10 make
500 books of varying length and thick
ness lie together smoothly, as they
must or have crumpled leaves.
When it comes TO packing furniture
the method followed by the profess
sionaI is quite different from that of
the amateur naturally enough, as the
professional has no interest in lessening
the weight and the corresponding
freight rates Grating most things is
necessary and will be found an econ
omy in the saving of wear on the goods.
but two chairs may be boxed seat to
seat and thus save something Unless
one puts the whole thing in the hands
of a professional it will be necessary to
get everything ready for boxing. Chairs
may be placed as stated, separating
them by papers, and in the squares
made by the legs may be packed bed
ding, sofa pillows, anything of that
nature, and over all there must be a
layer of paper and then one of burlap,
made tight. This protects the furniture
and its contents.
BY no means empty the drawers. On
the contrary fill every one. Many
kitchen supplies if properly wrapped
may be thus carried. A two-foot statu-
cite was safely packed between the
four legs of an old-fashioned sewing
table. which had TO be Grated There
was ample space for the statuette,
which went wrapped in quilts under
paper and burlaps.
There is a very decided difference in
the bill for freightage if advantage is
taken of all these spaces, and it is quite
as we'll to make the most of them as
to waste ones money on needless boxes
and crates. which all add TO the ex-
pense Of shipping.
In shipping furniture it is very neces-
sary to wrap it so that it will not be
scratched. for one who sends goods by
freight is always prepared to assert
that no care is taken in handling it
whether that is true or not, so 1t is
we'll to prepare for the worst. Every
particle of woodwork should be COW
cred with papers and then with burlap
over everything. This is beside the
crates which are made for the wrapped
articles.
IUe Only Sdlt way VI tdIIgl plC-
lures is tc have a case made for them
so that each touches nothing else. but
if one does not care to do this, there
is reasonable safety in putting them
in a big box, first wrapping each sep
arately in papers and then placing lay
ers of excelsior, or hay, which is softer,
between them. Under any measure of
decent treatment there should be no
trouble with them if thus packed.
When an artics is expensive and
cannot be packed in barrel or box. but
must be crateC by itself, il will be
much safer TO crate il so that it shows
what it is, for then it is handled care
fully. A large japanese vase was
Grated without any cover, care being
taken that no part of it's surface was
even with the outside of the crate, and
il has taken two long trips without the
slightest harm. The handlers, seeing
its worth and beauty, lifted it instead
OF throwing it. as they otherwise would
have dcne. 1t was Grated as carefully
as possible, but not wrapped.
Furniture we'll packed will bear much
freighting without getting scratched or
marred, and if it is well wrapped it is
Each crate should be numbered so that
it may be seen at once what it was
made for. II may serve many times if
taken care of and if one is likely to
move often.
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