CHANGING HOUSES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11650, 11 May 1901, Page 6 (Supplement)

CHANGING HOUSES.

Don't, unless it is absolutely unavoidable, arrange to move into a house on the day it is vacated by the previous tenant. That way lies despair. Order in a. supply of coal and wood be-

forehand, and ruing" for all chimneys to be swept a.- soon a: the house is vacant. If your own servants are to do the roomcleaning, arrange thai one shall go the day before you do, so thai some rooms, at all events, shall be ready to receive the furniture. Let the first load bring the floor-cover-ings; then, it some of the rooms are ready for them, the carpets ran be [aid at once. Keep large pieces ot furniture, and heavy things like trunks, boxes of books, etc, for the last load, it you car : if that is impossible, use one room on each Hour as a storeroom. This is to avoid filling the rooms up with heavy things which have to be constantly moved while carpets are laid. Von ran'; depend on being able to cook anything the hist day. so prepare a kind of picnic-basket for emergencies. Into this put; first enough cups, saucers, plates, spoons, and forks to go round, a tablecloth, two or three teaeloihs, a kitchen towel, a teapot, a teakettle, and some matches. For eatables provide a joint of cold meat, a piece of boiled ham or bacon, a tin of sardines, a tin of potted meat, a couple of tins of soup, eggs, bread, hatter, salt, pejiper. sugar, tea, and coffee, and a couple of bottles of scalded milk ; more, it there is a baby to he catered lor. Armed with this you can provide meals for the first div with the least no*, sible trouble. Don't allow all sorts and conditions of boxes and stores to be unpacked at once; one at. a. time, and when tin- contents of that are cleared away the next must be the rule if yon are to avoid chaos. Aim at the straightening of the kitchen first, then the nursery, and after that the dining-room and some of tie- bedrooms, '.■lie sitting-rooms can be dona without for a lime, but -'•• chicks must have a corner got read.;,- !',,, them, and the kitchen must be straightened i! meals are to be cooked Into one or two boxes—which should"he plainly labelled—put all bed-coverings etc ' needed lor the first night—sheets, pillowcases, blankets, towels, soap. Every box not strictly a personal belonging should be labelled on the outside with ''"" nature of its contents, or if ,-,,„ want some special thing you are sure to open all those which do not contain it first \n other good plan is to simply number 'the boxes, enter the numbers in a notebook and opposite write a list of the content, of Hie box bearing (ha. special number This may seem tiresome, •>»! it saves endless homer and trouble, provided you don't lose °" nmebook. To avoid this , would stm gesl loat you thread it on „ st , in „ '£. fasten it to your waistband, a device which I. being an absent-minded individual have found invaluable.