South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-09-29
Making Use of
The Closet Door
Ingenious Woman Makes
Chintz Bag to Hold
Odds and Ends.

ON a summer day in New England
a lady was sitting on the hotel porch
stitching away industriously. And her
lap was filled with rolls and wads of
chintz. Surrounding her on the
floor could be seen scissors and tape
measure, multitudinous spoOls of cot
ton, odd bits OF tape, flaps OF various
sizes-and bOarders.
The bOarders wondered what on
earth she was doing, and they had
gathered around TO see. The board
ers were OF both sexes. Curiosity had
been thoroughly aroused. For the
lady had been chanting a peculiar in
cantation all morning, "Overshoes,
buster, whisk. backing, buttOns!"
And then the refrain, What have 1
done with the whisk flap? A bOarder
in passing has heard, and fastened to
tell a boarderes that another board
eress who was on the porch, had evil
IDENTIFY gone crazy. The boarderess
had fastened TO find out and had held
conversation with the lady. She
hasn't gone yet" she told the bOarder
she's still there sewing. She says it's
for her closet door,"
News travels quickly in a summer
resort, and the boarders asemb led
thickly from all directions. Shoes,
um brella, duster," chanted the lady
on the porch. And, docs anyone see
the button hag?" she queried mildly
as the boarders burst as one man up
on her view. She had not noticed be-
fore that the congregation had as
sembled. An Out-stretched hand
dangling bag somewhat tentatively
was withdrawn with haste. That"
said the lady lis a hot water bag"
And she hshed up a puckered flap
from behind her chair and proceeded
to sew it on her lapful of chintz.
Il should love TO know what you're
making" said a young thing in blue
Why" said the lady its a catch
all for my closet door. It's for all
those things you never know where
TO find. l always lose my umbrella
and overshoes, and if / keep them in
pockets on my closet door. I'll always
know where to look. I'm making
pockets for all my things" she finish
ed gayly' as she smiled on the curl
Gus group.
Perhaps you will elucidate," sug-
gested a college professor in gray and
a broad accent. Il am singularly
ignorant in the matter of house fur
nishing, and" But the lady smiled
again. Pm afraid rye lost my
backing brought il down to get
the size. To ascertain the dimension"
she gayiy explained 10 the man in
gray.
But the blacking was duly found
she had tucked it into the toe of an
OvershOe for safekeeping. And then
she unrOlled her lapful of chintz and
exhibited a large, straight length of
material quite covered with pockets
of various sizes.
It's quite simple" she said You
first measure your closet door, so as
not to cut your piece of chintz too
large, AMI after you have cut it, you
run casing TOP and bottom, just like
the hem of a window shade And you
run the same sort of a stick in your
casing, too. That prevents crinkling,
you see. And then you decide on what
you want To make your pockets for.
and you cut them the proper size and
basic them on. You see, l have a long
narrow pocket for my umbrella. And
then up at the top l have a pocket
with hole in the bottom for my
whisk; and next to that l have a
pocket for my hat brush. And then
comes the pocket for the hot water
bag. And this bag is for buttons. You
see, / have made it quite full, with
drawstring, so that / can pull the bag
out almost fiat when l want TO hunt
the buttons l need. And then I've
made two little envelope bags one
is for rubber bands and L haven't de-
cided what l shall keep in the other
yet.
ION either side of the paper-and
string bag L have two middle-sized
pockets, one for a buster and one for
my Overshoes. But | want you to no.
| tice how 1 have made the paper bag
1t is cut pointed at the top, and can
either be tied up to the foundation by
| means of tape sewed on it and on
! the corner Of the bag, or il may be
| buttoned. And there is this three
| inch strip set in for thickness, so that
when the bag is undone at the top it
J pulls way out and l have sufficient
/ room to examine the contents. on the
outside of the bag l have fastened this
! pocket for string. This lower row
/ of pockets is for shoes. And outside
have" she glanced at the man in
| gray, adjusted receptacles for shoe
! brush, backing brush and blacking.
| You see" she ended proudly, It's
/ quite complete"
The young thing in blue determined
10 make four of them for Christmas
| presents. But the college professor.
| as he strolled away, decided he would
| approach the lady privately at some
| future time and ascertain upon what
! terms she would make a flap for him.
! For my favOrite volumes" he muir
| INJURED gently.