SIMPLE CONVENIENCES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16904, 17 July 1918, Page 10

SIMPLE CONVENIENCES.

In my own home the greatest convenience I can boast of is, Bays a writer in an exchange, the number and. utility of the receptacles I have devised for holding the family and household belongings. This Beems hardly worth recounting until one considers how impossible it is to maintain order and comfort in a large family of children without adequate places for everything and a working system that ensures everything being in its place. I have never felt able to purchase a real, commodious cedar chest for the disposal of blankets, . extra pillows, family woollens, etc., but the "substitute. we have has proved just as satisfactory. It consists of a large packing box, stained on the outside with cherry floor stain and painted on the inside with oil of cedar (this inside coating must bo freshened every year to make it effective in keeping the moths away.) With a neatly hinged cover this box looks like a piece of furniture and has a place in our upper hall. In the large bedrooms of this old-style house there is never a closet and possessing no wardrobes, I have overcome this lack by curtailing off the apace on the windowless side of the chimney place in each of the three largest bedrooms. As 1 used an attractive harmonising cretonne for this curtain. (using comfort covers and sofa pillow. slips of, the same) the effect is really decorative, audi have an accommodating' closet for any number of clothes and other .things in each room. Large boxes occupy the floor space in these and bold all the odds and ends of clothing and various miscellaneous articles that there never seems any place for. A stout bag for scraps and remnants of cloth and other materials is suspended from the wall of my room closet. This may be carried to the machine or spot where I sai sewing when: needed- Cretonnecovered boxes in the bedrooms accommodate shoes and hats, and there is no excuse for untidy, sleeping apartments, JUown stißTs the baby has a neat wallpaper-, covered box ( for his toys, ; and there is another, a little larger, ■ kept under the sofa for the disposal of things left out of* place— rackets, gloves, bit* of unfinished sewing,' and the like. In tt ; way this room, may be straightened by the smallest girl of the family in a few winutes.