Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1906-11-02
FOR ST RINI( G LINEN
CLOSET EAsllY the seer OF ALI
REcEPTAcLEs.


|cLosET EASILY TlsE seer Oh ALI
REcEPTAcLEs.
I Care In Arrangement and Laying
Away Of Freshly vvashed and
lFoned linen VIII Well Re-
pay the Housewife. s
Freshly washed and ironed linen lii
j 30 attractive in itself that it deserves
!, to be stored for use In as neat and
pleasing q 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 q box couch,
sideboard or other makeshift receptar
Gle SO often used for the purpose,
should be devoted to this use, IL one,
can possibly be spared. It should be
lined with shelves set In is inches,
apart. The broader the shelf, the bet,
ter, until it ID is inches wide. That isl
ample for any arrangement of linen.
that may be adopted for laying it
away.
The beauty of q closet OF linen
starched ON shelves lies In the fashion
Of stacking and Ii the arrangement 81
ahe piles. Sheets. spreads and table
cloths should be folded Into long
rather than square parcel. Sheets, In
particular are often laid away Id the
square form, when q last crease might
be avoided and the sheets be as con
Fenfently and economically slowed
away in their allotted space IL the last
fold had been omitted. Pillow cases;
are folded first into three, lengthwise,s
and that length Is then folded in the
middle and vet again In the middle.
Napkins are treated ID! the same way
The first principle Of putting away
linen Is to fold evenly, edge 10 edge
and then, as each piece is folded, to-
see that it has been made into an ex-3
act parcel Stack all the articles Of Al
kind together, but In not too high
piles, If there is space enough for sew
eral stacks Of a kind. Do not lay the
piles parallel with the edge Of the
shelf and at right angles to it, but:
diagonally across 1t.
n 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-5
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
wan. 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 sheet:
projects In point. The third sheet,
is laid on exactly over the first one,
and In this altern ating 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 Isl
made Of q 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
lcombination Of hues shows will not.
present the blankets at their best
appearance, and such q 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 fold
| 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.
1 It now lies In I'd parcel more nearly
square than long. This isg rather q
departure from the shape suggested.
] hut isE the only form into which q
1 blanket can be ded and not show
4 Its colors. Laid ON the topmostshelf.
4 where blankets belong, because they
are more rarely undisturbed than the
i rest of the bedding, their square
shape Will not interfere with the uni.
form appearance OF the closet.
T.
New Way to Mark clotF.
An ingenious way OF marking cloth
4 has inst come ID. The tissue paper
I pattern Ii basted upon the cloth,
which is then placed III the sewing
a machine. There is no thread iii liz
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