Show FOR THE HOUSEWIFE J j Odds and Ends of Useful Information Infor-mation on Many Topics SHORT CHAPTER ON CLOSETS IIIi I Ii I l i Rule and Hints for Attentive Housekeepers i The Care of BedsRubber Tissues I In Mending Miscellaneous I J HE average i I fji height of women Is 5 feet 2 inches I I but rarely does I tJ one find a house I in city or country In which any attention 2p tention has been I I paid to this fact a in arranging the closets The hooks are placed fully six feet from the floor and above them is placed a shelf which is almost useless No I women cares to mount a chair or a table every time sho wishes to get her bonnet hershawl or her bottle of blackening and the result is a series of boxes standing on tho floor which though handy have to be moved every sweeping I The Ideal closet has the cleat on which the hooks are screwed on the side and ends I of the closet only four and a half or live I feet from the floor with tho shelf only two or three inches above it Besides this series of hooks a double or single row of double hooks shapped like an inverted Tare T-are screwed into the under side of the shelf thereby doubling tbo capacity of the I closes A MOVE ABLE OLE4T Another plan evan better is in addition to the usual row of hooks on the wall to have a moveablo cloat or rod across the middle of the closet lengthwise and fastened fas-tened to it a number of moveablo books made of galvanized wire On these wire books clothing can be hung closely and pushed along to mako more room in the came manner as coats and dresses are hung in readymade clothing shops Clothing of all kinds keeps in much hotter hot-ter shape when hung on yokes An economical econ-omical means of supplying an unlimited number of these Is to take pieces of barrel hoops twelve inches long and wind each with old cambric nr muslm Woolen cloth is unsuitable for this use as it offers too convenient lodgings for moths Then make a loop at tho center of each yoke with stout cord wire or cloth and the yokes are ready for use Closets devoted to shelves are apt to have the shelves too far apart causing the I first shelf to bo the onlyono ot much value The average carpenter puts the shelves in every closet impartially twenty inches apart In linen closets or closets devoted to storing blankets and other bedding such generous spaces are well suited but c in the ordinary cupboard twelve or fifteen inches between shelves is ample space and allows two or three shelves to be convenient conven-ient for general use now TO CIRCUMVENT MOTHS The protection of clothing from Insect enemies when stored away is an unend o < > ing bother The wary beetle and the elusive elu-sive mothmiller scoff at camphor enjoy tarine balls crawl calmly over tarred paper wiggle through cracks of tho cedar closet and persistently edge their way Impartially I Im-partially into cedar or pine box The only safety is to put clean either sponged I washed or steamed well beaten well sunned garments first into muslin either old or coarse and then to wrap closely in a newspaper Insects have no appetite for either cotton or printers ink I |