SYSTEMATIC PACKING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5698, 17 October 1896, Page 3

SYSTEMATIC PACKING.

HOW THE SPACE IN A TRUNK MAY- -BE USED. The marvel of packing clothes is thatit is so simple. When you see for the first time a professional French packer put up your best gowns you feel sure you will come to your journey's end without a rag to wear. He puts three times as many things in the same space as you would. The cardinal, point is to ..wrap up every delicate garment separately \, of course, it should be folded smoothly, arid to teach how to fold clothes in print is not easy. Any good dressmaker, however, can give you points on that, and the wrapping is the more important thing ; pin towels or sheets of tissue paper about your garments, but remember that newspapers are -what you should fold between each layer of pretty things in the trunk. Nothing else is so good ; it is so unyielding that wrinkles and protuberances cannot make themselves felt through it to mark- the fabrics beneath them any more than if you had used sheet iron. It is useless to try to arrange heavy things at the bottom, light on top; the baggage smashers know no top and. no bottom ;- just concentrate yourself on keeping a smooth, even surface for each successive layer. Bows and sleeves can be stuffed out with newspapers better than with anything else. Be sure that your wrappings are pinned firmly, so that there will be no coming undone ; they are your bulwarks. In packing breakable articles it is astonishing how many people will jam them down in the corners and sides, where they get the full force of every concussion against the unyielding walls. Tie on your corks well and put your bottles near the middle of a compartment, and you may carry ink and shoe dressing in safety around the world.