Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1915 — Making the Home Comfy [ARTICLE]

Making the Home Comfy

HOUSEHOLD BAGS. USEFUL IN BMALL APARTMENTS FOR KEEPING MANY THINGB AT HAND. The Kitchen Bag for Ironing Needfuls r i Should Bo Made of a Strong Quality of Ticking. In the small apartment where space la at a premium, bags are almost as valuable as closet-room. A number of things that would be endlessly in the way soattered on the closet-floor may be kept conveniently at hand, yet quite out of the way, in bags on the closet door. Some of the most useful bags for apartment housekeeping are: The shoe bag, on the upper part of the closet door; the paper and string bag, on the lower half of the same door; the laundry bag, in the bathroom; the dustcloth bag, a gay silk affair, which may hang in the hall; the mending bag, the darning bag, various piece bags for remnants of light and dark fabrics, laces, buttons, and notions, all of which may hang near the sewing machine from small brass hooks screwed into the walL Kitchen bags should include the strong ticking bag for ironing needfuls —holders, wax, pressing cloths and the like; the laundry bag for soiled dish towels and table napkins (which should always be kept separate from the general family laundry bag in the bathroom) and a flat bag of light oilcloth, in which lamp cloths, polishing cloths and other cloths saturated with oil may be stored •way.