The Cairo bulletin., 1906-10-20
FOR STORING LINEN
CLOSET EASILY THE BEST OF ALL
VEGETABLES.
Care In Arrangement and Laying
Away Of Freshly Washed and
lroned Linen viii Well Re-
pay the Housewife.

Freshly washed and ironed linen is
30 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, piincely kent
linen closets. says Grace Campbell
, Moore in the Washington Star.
a closet. rather than a box couch,
sldeboard or other makeshift recepta-
Gle so often used for the purpose,
should be devoted to this use, II 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 OF
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-
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
mil Ntnt N N hn
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. TO
see that 1t has been made into an ex-
act parcel Stack all the articles Of
kind together, but in not too high
piles. if there Is space enough for sew
eral stacks of kipd. DO not lay the
piles parallel with the edge OF the
shelf and at right angles to it, but
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-
agonalIy to the wall. This brings
forward conspicuously 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 and
The other short, the latter being in |
reality an end of the parcel. It is this
short fold or end that is laid across
The corner so that the under sheet |
projects in point. The third sheet |
Is laid on exactly over the first one, |
and in this alternating fashion tho |
stack is raised as high as desired
Blankets, which have their place in |
he closets, too, require special fold
ng to look their best A family.s
stock of these coverings usually Is /
made of heterogeneous collection |
If borde rs, blue for this room, per
laps, and yellow for that or pink, be- /
,ause some one happened to make
present of pink bordered blankets
70 stack them so that this rainbow
of hues shows will not
PRESENT the blankets at their best
appearance, and such placing takes
way from the neat appearance of the
inen closet Fold them. therefore. /,
o that none of the borders are in
lew To do this fold first end to
nd, bringing the stripes together.
hen turn the ends back to the fold
o that the blanket lies in long
arcel Take the two ends of this
nd bring them toward one another.
mt leave u space Of two or three
nches The space makes a hinge on
1hich to fold the blanket once more
/ now lies in Il parcel more nearly
quare than long. This is rather a
eparture from the shape suggested
Mt is the only form into which
lanket can be folded and not show
S colors Laid on the topmost shelf
here blankets belong, because they
re more rarely undisturbed than the
est of the bedding, their square
lape will not interfere with the uni.
yrm appearance of the closet.