Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-15
soME GooD SUGGESTIONS.


Dear AIRS. Thomas and All: How
many are planning TO improve their
homes this winter? Are the rooms dark!
Add a window or two. Is the door
draughty? Put down old newspapers.
three or four thick. then rug or lay
new floor. Make more cupboards in the
kitchen. \ man with a saw, hammer
a few nails. odds and ends Of lumber, or
even dry goods boxes knocked down CO.
accomplish this. BE particular absES
workmanship. Then paint them 9ad
Won will be astonished how it improves
the looks of <the kitchen and how ii
l.Phtens labor.
Why don't the men and boys build a
real cellar. They waste time enough
each winter sitting by the fire just tell
ing stale jokes or, chewing tobacco TO
do this Make a good sized one, win
a stairway. Let il come up from under
the stairs that leads 10 the second story
IL possible. If this cannot be done, the
next best way is to have sort Of en-
trance way. rooted and with sides, a
glass window in one side. and swing u
door like the house has. Many a woman
adds a nail in her coffin every time that
she has TO lift a cellar door.
On many farms there are stones that
cpuld be nut into cellar wall or make
a good walk to the smoke house.
Things like these add TO the looks OF a
place as well as add TO the health am
happiness of the women that live there
A glass window provides ventilation
and assists in preserving vegetables,
fruits. etc. If the men had to go IN all
sorts OF weather for potatoes, caoDases
and turnips they would surely TX
things. You will notice that the parA
and stables are conveniently arranged
Inn
make some closets. The man or the
house can easily make these tdont SOP
at one1 Make them in the corners or
the rooms II YOU lack a suitable place
for them Put up a partition across the
corner. so that the floor OF the closet
will form triangle over the door. Put
two high shelves for hat boxes and re-
ceptacIes of various sorts. Then nail
cleats at each side of the closet; take
an old broomstick and tack one end to
each cleat Purchase a couple of dozen
skirt and coat hangers; these can be
hung on the road made from the broom
stick. and you will be surprised to see
how many garments can thus be hung
in a small space without damage to
the appearance Of the garments.
box on the floor with hinged cover is
fine for shoes Hooks on the door are
also convenient.
Now is a good time to clean the yard.
Let's have grassy yards. The way that
some people take their house brooms
and sweep the yards may keep them
clean, but they are bare of beauty.
bare yard is mark of preventable
poverty. II sod cannot be obtained,
quart of grass seed will make a good
start. And il there is no available
cash, why can't the snuff and tobacco
money be spent that way for one time?
These. things being absent do not
always mean a trifiing woman. \ man
has TO lend a hand TO get a place look
ing like real folks live there. There
are always thrifty neighbors who would
divide flowers if there was a place to
put them.
II nothing else can be done, there
can be a bit of green in a pot or old
bucket in the house during the winter
Cooperation is essential, so let all who
read this join hands for home improve
ment
a MOUNTAIN WOMAN.