The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-10-18
FOR STORING LINEN
CLOSET EASILY THE BEST or ALL
REcEPThcLEs,
Care IN Arrangement and Laying
Away Of Freshly Washed and
lroned Linen viii We'll Re
pay the Housewife.

Freshly washed and ironed linen Is
50 attractive IN itself that It deserves
to be stored for use tn as neat and
pleasing manner as possible The
4 past generation Of housekeaperz TOOK
great pride ia iis Foomy, princeiy kept
linen closets. says Grace Campbell
Moore ii the Washington star
A closet. rather than a box couch,
gIdeboard 81 other makeshift recepta-
cle sc often used for the purpose
should be devoted 10 this use. II one
can possibly Be spared II should be
lined With shelves set in rs inches
apart The broader the shelf, the bet-
ter, until ii is rs inches vide. That is
ample for any arrangement of linen
that may be adopted for laying il
away
Tie beauty Of a 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 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-
Yeniently 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, TO
see that 1t has been made into an ex-
act parcel Stack all the articles Of a
kind together. but in not too high
piles, If there is space enough for sew
eral stacks OF kind. DO not lay the
piles parallel with the edge Of the
shelf and at right angles to 1t, but
diagonally across IT,
If II we're 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 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. 1t is this
short fold or end that is laid across
the corner so that the under shee-
projects In a point The third sheet
Is 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 III
the closets. too require special fold
ing to look their best. A family
stock Of these coverings usually ~
made of a heterogeneous collection
Of borders. blue for this room, PEI
haps, and yellow for that or pink, be-
cause some one happened 70 MAKE
a present Of pink bordered blankets
To stack them so that this rainbow
combination Of hues shows will not
present the blankets at their best
appearance, and such a placing takes
away from the neat appearance of the
linen closet. Fold them. therefore.
so that none Of the borders are in
view. To do this fold first end to
end, bringing the stripes together.
then turn the ends back to the fol I
so that the blanket lies in a long
parcel. Take the two ends OF this
and bring them toward one another.
but leave space Of two or three
inches The space makes hinge on
which to fold the blanket once more
Il now lies in q parcel more nearly
square than long This is rather q
departure from the shape suggested.
bat Is the only form into which
blanket can be folded and not show
its colors Laid on the topmost shelf
where blankets belong, because the,
are more rarely undisturbed than the |
rest Of the bedding, their square
shape will not interfere with the uni
form appearance of the closet.