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Show PLENTY OF STORAGE PLACES Woman Who Has Made Home Into a Veritable "House of a Thousand Thou-sand Closets." One little woman living not far from New York, says Harriet Sisson Gillespie Gilles-pie In the Mother's Magazine, has been able by the expenditure of a moderate sum of money to transform an impracticable imprac-ticable closetless dwelling Into one In which housekeeping Is not only a pleasure, but where the problem of storing away clothing has been satisfactorily satis-factorily solved. Among her friends It Is known as "the house of a thousand closets," which Is nearly If not literally true. Every little cubby hole below the shingles has been utilized for closet space. There are banks of closets on both the second and attic floors, to" sny nothing of a cedar closet with sun and air and electric light, for the reception recep-tion of the owner's choicest possessions. posses-sions. Some of the closets are cedar lined, others sheathed with matched boards of North Carolina pine, well shellacked to keep out the moths and frequently sprayed with a liquid In which oil of cedar plays a part. A printed list of every article contained con-tained In the drawers and cupboards Is tacked In plain sight In order that the frantic search for inanimate things that seem suddenly to have taken wings and flown away, may be entirely obviated. |