Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1911 — CLOSETS UP TO DATE [ARTICLE]

CLOSETS UP TO DATE

STORAGE PLACES ARE MIRACLES OF CONVENIENCE. New York Newspaper Describes Receptacles That May Be Envy of Any Housewife Wonderful Nursery Appurtenance. s Women architects, it is said, resent the association of their names with closets. “Just as If we couldn't build anything but closets,*' one of them snapped the other day, “and just as if any sensible man architect couldn't make all the closets that are necessary!” ' So the Tribune repeater knew better than to make guesses about the sex of the architect, great as was the temptation, when the mistress of the new house began displaying her closets. “In every one there are electric lights;*' she explained proudly, -“and they are turned on and off with the opening and shutting of the door. No matches, no candle to blow in thedraft and set fire to things, and no waste of electricity. Isn’t that a scheme?” Then she showed off her closets for shoes and hats. Each pair' of shoes had a separate compartment fitted with shoe trees. The hat compartments were fitted out with millinery standards to keep the hats from being crushed. The proud mother had a wonderful closet In the nursery. It contained sliding shelves set quite closely together, one above the other. They were very deep, but made of a light wood, so that they were not heavy. An entire shelf, with its contents, can be lifted out easily and carried like a tray to any place where it is needed. The bottom shelf, covered with white rubber. Is to be used for a toilet table. On it were a pretty papier mache basin, soap dish and powder boxes. On each of the other shelves complete baby outfits were laid out, ready for use. The architect who planned the linen closet certainly knew woman's wants. It looked like a row of deep drawers, but Instead of pulling out, the front pieces were hinged and let down like a desk cover, supported by chains. Behind were the shelves or recesses, piled with linen. In sorting or arranging the linen the front of the drawer serves as a table—New York Tribune.