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Show STORING SYSTEM WILL SAVE TIME Have Individual Box or Drawer to Receive Each Person's Different Articles. GARMENTS SHOULD BE MENDED Department of Agriculture Suggests Inventory of Clothing Stored Away to Save Time in Locating Wearables. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Mother! I want my winter flannels. Where do you keep them? The insistent in-sistent demand may be heard when the frosty mornings begin to he really nipping. And "mother" Is called from the kitchen, or from bed, perhaps, to go suddenly up to a chilly attic and hunt through a collection of boxes and trunks, from the camphorous depths of which she will finally sort out enough underwear to clothe the family for the day. She always meant to get all the fltnnels In one place, but somehow It was never done. Mend Beft re Putting Away. If system was not followed In putting put-ting away last winter's clothes. It will soon become evident, when they are suddenly wanted, that much time could have been saved in the busy fall season by careful arrangement In the spring. As the thin summer wear retires and the heavier clothes ap- IVienaing ana LaDellng Each Person's Clothes as They Are Put Away. pear, It Is worth whIJe to follow a systematic plan in disposing of it now. Everything ohould be darned and mended, ard all buttons put on when the garments are stored this fall. An Inventory of the garments stored away Is suggested by the United States Department of Agriculture that Is to say. Information as to what and whose articles are 6tored( the condition con-dition of each, and an estimate as to what further use may be made of the article. Time Is saved by collecting all the wearable garments for each person In sepnrnte boxes, plainly labeled la-beled as "Mary's summer dresses, good condition"; "Father's thin underwear, won't last all season"; "John's blouses, too small, use for William." Should Johnny need one of those summer blouses by any chance duilng "Indian summer." It will not be necessary neces-sary to go through hnlf a dozen boxes and trunks to find It. Moreover. Johnny, rather than mother, can make the trip to the attic to find the waist. One mother put her clothes away labeled la-beled In the spring and then went for a family visit which stretched out te unexpected length In the full. She was able to ask a neighbor to mail warm clothes to her. The neighbor selected the boxes without disturbing anything else In the attic nnd mailed them. One box should receive garments requiring re-quiring alteration or those whose only use Is for making over. A sMp pinned to each, suggesting the use Intended will save much wondering a few months later. It is easy to forgel that the white linen will do for Mary if trimmed with the old blue parts of another an-other dress; n brief note will prevent such accidents as letting the children have those old blue pieces for their dolls. If the Individual hoxes are used from year to year to put clothes away in, there may be kept In or near each ono a small roll of mending pieces belonging be-longing to the person whose ciothes are In the box. Mark Contents of Box. Millinery trimmings (feathers, ribbons, rib-bons, flowers, velvet pieces) should be stored. If In good condition, in a box by themselves, where they can be easily eas-ily found if a hat must be unevpeeted-ly unevpeeted-ly freshened. I.aees of difTerenl kinds can be wound on cards or otherwise put away, so that a glance will make the right piece accessible. I.inlni; mate-ria's mate-ria's nnd "Id dress femndatiens which have further uses are best collected by themselves. Kaeh housekvper must needs evt!o her own system. Lot If she aims to arrange the family chubing and materials in storage so 'hat everything Is readily found when vanteil she serves the double purpose f s:it il- imieh time and 1,-,-eping the torn.: r I o;a in gi-o.l order |