The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-10-26
FOR STORING LINEN
CLOSET EASILY THE BEST OF ALI
REcEPTACLES.
Care in Arrangement and Laying
Away of Freshly Washed and
Ironed Linen Will Well Re.
pay the Housewife.

Freshly washed and ironed linen is
so attractive in itself that it deserves
to be stored for use in as neat and
pleasing a manner as possible. The
past generation of housekeepers took
great pride in its roomy, princely kept
linen closets, says Grace Campbell
Moore in the Washington Star.
A closet, rather than a box couch,
sideboard or other makeshift reCepta-
Gle so often used for the purpose,
should be devoted to this use, if one
can possibly be spared. 1t should be
lined with shelves set in IS inches
apart. The broader the shelf, the bet
ter, until it is IS inches wide. That is
ample for any arrangement OF linen
that may be adopted for laying it
away.
The beauty of closet of linen
starched on shelves lies in the fashion
| of stacking and in the arrangement or
the piles. Sheets, spreads and table
cloths should be folded into long
rather than square parcel. Sheets, in
particular, are often laid away in the
square form, when a last crease might
be avoided and the sheets be as con-
veniently and economically slowed
away in their allotted space If the last
fold had been omitted. Pillow cases
are folded first into three, lengthWise,
and that length is then folded in the
middle and yet again in the middle
Napkins are treated in the same way
The first principle of putting away
linen is to fold evenly, edge to edge
and then, as each piece is folded, tc
see that it has been made into an ex
act parcel. Stack all the articles or
kind together, but in not too higt
piles, if there is space enough for sew
eral stacks of a kind. Do not lay th'
piles parallel with the edge OF TIT
shelf and at right angles to 1t, ou
2 diagonally across it.
!. If it were sheets that were benz
=, thus put away, the first would b
laid in the diagonal position, with Tn
;. long fold of the parcel toward tn
= front and the edges of the sheet q
agonally to the wall. This bring
0 forward conspicuously corner OF tn
l. parcel Across this corner the ne'
n sheet in the pile is laid. Ever
e sheet parcel will be found to haV
e two sides made Of folds and two th'
n show edges. The fold sides alWa1
l. face front and the edge sides u
s. wall. One folded side is long al
the other short, the latter being
reality an end of the parcel. 1t is tn
short fold or end that is laid aero
pit the corner so that the under she
a. projects in a point. The third she
IS is laid on exactly over the first or
it and in this alternating fashion {
III stack is raised as high as desired.
IS, Blankets, which have their place
s. the closets, too, require special 10
ed ing to look their best. A famll'
stock of these coverings usually
made of a heterogeneous collectl
of hor1ers, blue for this room, p
On hans. and yellow for that or pink,
IS cause some one happened to ma
lu' a nresent of pink bordered Dlanke
vi To stack them so that this ramp
ar combination of hues shows will
3D. nresent the blankets at their D
ey annearance. and such a placing tai
Gu aWay from the neat appearance OF
7n' linen closet. Fold them, therele
81 ca that none of the borders are
W view, To do this fold first end
, IN, end, bringing the stripes togetl
'no then turn the ends back to the
W 81 that the blanket lies in II
w MARCEL Take the two ends OF
90 and bring them toward one anotl
W. but leave a space Of two or tn
i" inches. The space makes a hinge
~" w which to fed the blanket once M
We r. now lies in a parcel more ne'
square than long. This IS ratne
. denarture from the shape sugges
hut is the only form into which
blanket can be folded and not S
it's colors. Laid on the topmost 81
'oss where blankets belong, because
are more rarely undisturbed tnan
rest of the bedding, their So
ac' shape will not interfere with the
Clon form appearance of the closet