Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-27
Household Methods
By BETSY CALLISTER.

If you cannot afford Oriental rugs or
really do not care to have them you
will still find wide variety of good
looking floor coverings from which to
choose. Whether your rooms are large
or small, whether your furniture is eX-
pensive or the reverse, you may be sure
that a plain-toned rug will look har-
monious and in good taste. Many in
terror decorators almost always choose
rugs of this sort, feeling that figured
floor coverings detract from the effec-
tiveneSs of the hangingS and other fur
niShingS.
At any place where rugs and carpets
are sold you can buy what is known
as broadloom carpet. The most popu-
lar colorS for these pialn-Uone rugs are
green or taupe. They may also be had
in a dark dull red, soft dull old rose,
blue and other soft colors.
These plain-toned rugs may be bought
in such sizes as 8 by 8, by IL and
9 by is or IL by IL and IL by is feet. !.
The most attractive effect is secured
when you buy rug that IS large enough
to cover the floor fairly well, leaving not
too wide margin of bare floor at the
edges. If you have a small room or a
room that calls for rug not of the
usual size you can have the rugs made
from 9-foot or 12-foot wide broadloom
carpeting of the requisite length and
have them finished off at the edges to
make rugs of the desired size.
If your house is small you will be
surprised to observe how much larger
the rooms will look il you have the
floors covered with these solid toned
rugs, using the same type of rug in l1v-
inn 1o1 n iv1SV,
Here Is letter from a reader which
presents a question that at some time
or other comes up in almost every
maidless household.
Il have been in the habit of letting
the supper dishes go until morning. 1
Just take the dishes into the kitchen
and stack them at one side of the sink,
put away the food and then wait until
after breakfast the next day to wash
the dishes. We have two young chill
dren who have to be put to bed after
supper and if 1 do the dishes at night
it means that have almost no time to
be with my husband. AS it is. we sit
and read or talk or listen to the radio
for an hour or so after the children are
in bed
Recently my sister came to visit me
and she insisted on doing the dishes
right after dinner She would say.
Come on now, it will only take little
while and they will be so much easier
now than in the morning But even
with her help it made the evening
short, and I never enjoyed dirner at
all while she was here, just thinking of
the washing up we had to do after
ward She thinks my plan is a very
poor one. What is your opinion?"
In this case thoroughly approve Of
letting the dishes go until morning.
know of many very efficient housewives
who do precisely the same thing and
/ know of others who would probably
be better off if they adopted the same
plan To be sure the dishes are little
harder to do after they have stood-but
what of it?
If there is running hot water in the
kitchen it is a simple matter to rinse
off all greasy plates and if the cooking
dishes are filled with cold water they
will not be difficult to do in the morn
ing 1t is one thing to leave the dishes
because it is part Of your plan to do
so, and another thing to put off doing
them merely as matter Of laziness and
procraStination.
tCopyright. 1917