w, or vice
versa.

CLOTHES CLOSETS

Clothes closets of this description can also be built against
unoccupied bedroom walls, the objection to the number of doors thus
introduced being offset by the great convenience of having one's
clothing immediately at hand, exposed to light and to view directly the
doors are opened, for we find things by sight here, not by faith.
Angles and recesses which have no special excuse for being are easily
converted into closets, one to be used as a hanging place for the
various brooms, brushes, dustpans, and dusters in use about the house.
Brooms, by the way, must never be allowed to stand upon their bristles,
but must either stand upside down or hang. Another nook becomes a
convenient place for hanging canvas or ticking bags filled with odds
and ends of dress goods, white and colored, news and wrapping papers,
balls of twine, and other pick-me-ups.

THE CHINA CLOSET

The china closet is designed for the accommodation of everything in use
on the dining table, with drawers or cupboards for linen and silver,
and shelves for dishes. The latter should be arranged with an eye to
artistic effect as well as to convenience, platters and decorative
plates standing on edge and kept from slipping by a strip of molding
nailed to the shelf, pretty cups hanging, and those of more common
material and design inverted to keep out the dust. Stand the large and
heavy pieces, vegetable dishes, and piles of plates on the bottom
shelf, and on the next cups and saucers, sauce dishes, small plates,
etc., placing the smaller dishes in front, the taller ones behind. The
third shelf may be devoted to glass alone, with tumblers inverted and
bowls and odd pieces tastefully arranged, or to both glass and silver.
On the fourth shelf place such pieces of glass and silver as are only
occasionally brought into service. Personal taste and convenience
dictate to a great extent the placing of the dishes, but absolute
neatness and spotlessness must hold sway. No other closet is more
prone to disarrangement than the china closet, where the careless
disposal of one dish seems to invite the general disorder which is sure
to follow. For this reason it demands the frequent rearranging which
it should receive. Its walls should harmonize in color with those of
the dining room. Small, fringed napkins or doilies on and overhanging
the shelves help to impart an air of daintiness and make a pretty
setting for the di