The Lamar register., 1906-10-24
FOR STORING LINEN
CLOSET EASILY THE BEST or ALL
REcEPTAcLES.
ere in Arrangement and Laying
Away Of Freshly Washed and
Ironed Linen VIII Well Re-
pay the Housewife.

Freshly washed and ironed linen l.
30 attractive in itself that 1t deserves
to be stored for use in as neat and
pleasing a manner as possible. The
past generation of housekeepers tool
great pride in its roomy. princely KEEP
linen closets. says Grace Campbell
Moore in the Washington Star.
A closet, rather than q box couch
sideboard or other makeshift recepta
Gle SO often used for the purpose
should be devoted to this use, IL one
can possibly be spared. 1t should bt
lined with shelves set in 18 inchei
apart. The broader the shelf. the bet
TER. until it is IS inches wide. That !,
ample for any arrangement OF liner
that may be adopted for laying IL
away.
The beauty of closet OF liner
starched on shelves lies in the fashion
of stacking and in the arrangement oil
the piles. Sheets, spreads and table
cloths should be folded into a long
rather than square parcel. Sheets. in
particular, are often laid away in the
square form. when last crease might
be avoided and the sheets be as con
NtHleHlly ana eCOHOlHitdiiy oeo"Ns
away in their allotted space if the last
fold had been omitted. Pillow cases
are folded first into three. length wise
and that length is then folded il the
middle and yet again in the mi Idle
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 ii has been made into an eN
act parcel. Stack all the articles OF
kind together but in not too high
piles. If there is space enough fo' sew
eral stacks of kind. Do not lay the
piles parallel with the edge OF the
shelf and at right angles to 1t, bu,
diagonally across it.
If it were sheets that were being
thus put away. the first would be
laid in the diagonal position. with the
long fold of the parcel toward the
front and the edges of the sheet di
agonally to the wall. This brings
forward conspicuously a corner of the
parcel. Across this corner the next
sheet in the pile is laid. Every
sheet parcel will be found to have
two sides made of folds and two that
show edges. The fold sides always
face front and the edge sides the
wall. One folded side is long ant
the other short. the latter being il
reality an end of the parcel. II is this
short fold or end that is laid across
the corner so that the under sheet
projects in a point The third sheet
10 laid on exactly over the first one,
and in this alternating fashion the
stack is raised as high as desired.
Blankets, which have their place in
the closets, too. require special fold
ing to look their best. A family's
stock of these coverings usually is
made of heterogeneous collection
of borders, blue for this room. per
haps. and yellow for that or pink, be,
cause some one happened to make
a present of pink bordered blankets
To stack them so that this RAINBOW
combination of hues shows will moi
present the blankets at their lest
appearance. and such a placing take,
away from the neat appearance of I'll;
linen closet. Fold them. therefore
so that none of the borders are IL
view. To do this fold first end I,
end. bringing the stripes together
thon turn the ends back to the folt
so that the blanket lies in a lonI
parcel. Take the two ends of thii
and bring them toward one another
but leave space of two or tire,
inches. The space makes a hinge OF
which to fold the blanket once more
II now lies in a parcel more nesrN
square than long This is rather
departure from the shape suggested
A't is the only form into which a
blanket can be folded and not show
its colors. Laid on the topmost shelf.
where blankets belong. because they
are more rarely undisturbed than the
rest of the bedding. their square
shape will not interfere with the uni,
form apDaarapca Of tho ,,os,.