Evening star., 1927-10-03

A correspondent of this column
writes in to say that, having acted
upon advice contained herein a year
or so ago. he was able to go to church
when both Of his shoestrings broke,
owing to the fact that he kept spare
pair handy.
This is interesting information.
There are persons in this town who
are putting themselves to no end of
inconvenience, to say nothing of prob
ably indulging in superfluous swear
words, simply because they VIII not
prepare themselves for the inevitable.
There are thousands of good house
wives. for instance, who have been
making trips to the grocery store
eyerv morning before breakfast for
the bread which they knew the night
before they would require for the
morning meal
One might almost set his watch by
the regularity of their trips down the
alley. as they scurry along in the neat
of the Summer or the cold of the Win
ter. to purchase a standard commod-
ity which they more easily might nave
laid in the night before.
In 20 years one Of these dear LADIES'
must have walked a total of more than
500 miles, If the corner grocery is
no more than two blocks from her
home. On a conservative estimate or
$50 trips a year, counting two blocks
each way. one arrives at 400 squares
trayersed per annum. which multi
piled by 90 yields a total of $4,000 city
blocks hotfooted by the good house
wife. And If this astounding distance
is divided by 12, the theoretical num-
Der of blocks it takes to make mile,
one comes to the more or less accu-
rate guess that the palpitating lady
covers in the neighborhood nabor-
hood of $500 miles.
Surely this is an awful price to pay
for hot toast!
X X X X
Similarly, there is no good reason
why bathing males should be forced 10
set up perpetual clamors for more
towels, but this is a condition that pre-
walls in, alas, too many otherwise well
conducted homes!
A minimum requirement for mas
culine parsonage with the average 2S
square feet Of cuticle allowed by the
law is exactly two towels of size no
less than 90 by 40 inches, and II they
are larger, well, so much the drier.
Three towels, however, are certainly
better than two towels, and it follows
with equal force that four towels pos
sess more absorbent powers than
three towels.
If there is one thing your average
male being hates more than anything
else, it is not to have enough towels
handy when he arises, like Venus from
the sea (more or less), from the chaste
embrace of the porcelain (more or
less) tub or the clammy grasp of the
clinging shower curtains.
A towel in the bathroom is worth
10 in the linen closet. A towel on the
rack is better than Is in the second
or third bureau drawer from the top.
One of the most comical sights in
the world, although it would hardly do
for public presentation, is that of the
so-called head of the house, dripping
like the family Newfoundland just
after it's first dip in the sea, vainly
trying to locate the towels in the
bureau.
A bureau, Of course, is the last
place in a home towels ought to be
kept, but sometimes this is a neces-
sity. owing to the lack of foresight Of
builders, some of whom seem to be
remarkably near-sighted when it
comes to the subject of linen closets.
The trouble with bureaus, dressers
and chiffoniers as repositories for bath
towels is that the towels invariably
seem to be in the wrong drawer. Off
hand, now, you might think, especially
when you are all wet, that the top
drawer would be the one.
But no, this is never the case. For
some obscure feminine reason, the bot.