Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-30
THE BRIDES
OWN STORY
Lsbels-First Aids 10 Finding Things.

Labels-First Aids 10 Finding Things.
How used TO reYel in Grandmother
Bakers big, old-fashioned cellar.
Shelves upon shelves Of jars contain
ing preserves of every kind that any
little girl could ever want-cherries,
raspberries, ounces. Strawberries,
whole peaches and endless varieties
OF canned vegetables. Grandmother
was the only one who could always
tell exactly what vas in the jar. Shed
send me down for some grapefruit
marmalade for breakfast, and if ]
accidentally-or on purpose-brought
the cherry instead, we'd have to con-
sumo the cherry as well as the grape
fruit, after we'd once opened the jar
and discovered the mistake.
No little girl can make such deli
cious mistakes in Aunt Juliette's ces-
lar. For all the Jars have nice, big
black and white labels on them, and
she who walks may read. From
grown-up viewpoint, I thoroughly ap-
prove the scheme of labelling. You're
always sure of the right jar you
want, without having to use a mi
croscope, and you can always tell at
a glance without removing any jars
from the shelves, just how much you
have on hand of everything.
Indeed, Aunt labels practically
everything in the kitchen, too. You
don't have 10 look twice at the white
filed jar TO make sure it's baking
powder and not powdered sugar, nor
are you likely TO mistake the ground
cinnamon for cocoa as once did
dear old lady know Every box and
jar is labeled distinctly with neat
printed red and white labels that
Aunt buys in whole books.
And it really is the label idea which
makes it possible to have a pace
for everything and everything in its
place" That saying used to irritate
me at one time because It meant so
little.
Mother would decide that the hall
closet was the best place for brooms
and busters, and Dinah would forget
and place them carefully in a corner
of the porch where no one but she
would think of looking for them. Or
the law went forth that rubber over
shoes were to be kept IN your own
wardrobe, after drying. and a few
days later back to the hall coat closet
everyone's overshoes migrated for
some mysterious reason. Nobody
ever remembered where things we're
or ought to be.
Aun.s scheme is TO paste a label
under every hook in the place. II
was a big job at the beginning. but
II has its blessings. If you proceed
to hang the coat brush on the neat
! est hook you find, and that hook is
labeled "oil mop you can't help
pausing a minute until you find the
hook labeled coat brush The same
! way in the kitchen. All the tools
cutting and mixing and cooking uten-
sils-haye their own proper place
which bears q label. II the tool ism
there, you know somebody's using II
and you don't waste time in vain
search among skeenteen other hooks
to find the missing article.
Likewise, anybody can put things
away right in aunt's kitchen or
closets. The linen closet is divided
into partitions each labeled sheets,
'pil1ow cases. hand towels,
! guest towels" etc, so that you don
/ have the exasperating experience OF
opening up a piece of linen only to
| find that it's not what you want.
! This labelling plan is a sort of mon
/ itor on the family and just makes
everybody put things in the right
! place, and there's never minute
wasted in looking for a needed arti-
Gle.
For about % cents you can labe
everything you want for a year, ano
certainly it's worth the price in pre-
serving good humor, II for nothing
else.