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Show Neglect Must Be Paid For Articles Long Unused Are Bound to Deteriorate in Quality. There seems to be a natural law that unused articles shall become useless. As soon as one slops utilizing util-izing whatever the thing happens to be, from that time it commences to deteriorate. It Is as if the article said: "If you are done with me, so am I done with you. I will not be neglected neg-lected and continue to keep in good condition. I will serve you to the best of my ability so long as I endure, en-dure, provided you want me. If I am no longer desirable, I cannot help deteriorating." How many of us homemakers have found that such a state of affairs af-fairs Is truth. We let garments remain re-main hanging in a closet They may get weak and tear or cut along seams and in folds when we again want to use them. Silk is particularly particu-larly liable to be affected. If the closet is warm, the heat is ruinous to silk In which there is any filling. So few silks today are pure. Women Wom-en insist on them having "body," and filling supplies "body." Or it may be that the frock Is partly or entirely of wool. Beware of moths and buffalo bugs, if so. They accept the invitation of longstanding long-standing unused material and worm their way into the textiles, and tiny holes, always just where they will show most, are found in a surprisingly surpris-ingly short time. AVash goods get soiled and mussed. Dirt rots textiles. Also, being suspended sus-pended on clothes hangers strains the material of whatever sort, where it bears the weight of the garment, on the shoulders usually. But it is not wearing apparel alone which repays us in kind for failure to make use of It. Furniture will get loose In Its joints, dull of polish, shabby in upholstery, etc. Tt. will need to be done ever after a period of disuse. It is odd that the articles which are most easily breakable when used, are those which, when not used, show ill effects least. Glass and china, when carefully packed away, can be taken out, and be found In perfect condition in later years. Then, too, unused articles have a strange way of losing themselves. How the articles go or where, remains re-mains a mystery. Like shoe buttons, which one young boy declared "died off," so do these unused articles seem to die away. Certainly they vanish without anyone in the household house-hold being aware of how or when. So it pays either to use things constantly, constant-ly, or else pack them away in some manner which will preserve them against the time of returned desire to have them utilized. . 1933. Bell Syndicate. V7NTJ Service. |