e the new edges of the
sheet. Old bed linen makes the finest kind of cleaning cloths, and
should be folded neatly away for that purpose, sheets being reserved for
the ironing board.

SUGGESTIONS ABOUT TOWELS

Towels are best purchased by the dozen, huck of Irish bleached linen
being best for all-around use. These have good absorbent qualities,
plain or hemstitched hems, measure from 18 by 36 inches to 24 by 42
inches, and cost from $2.50 to $6 a dozen. Some of these are "Old
Bleach" linen, and therefore both desirable and durable. Pass by towels
with colored borders; the colored part is always cotton, and is in poor
taste anyway. Some huck towels have damask borders; other towels are of
all-damask, costing from $6 to $12 a dozen, but huck is the stand-by.
Fringed towels, of course, are not to be considered for a moment. Each
member of the family should have his own individual towel, or set of
towels, distinguished by some mark, particularly children, who find it
hard to learn that towels are for drying, not cleansing, purposes. Those
for their use may be smaller and cheaper. Turkish or bath towels are of
either cotton or linen, the latter being more for friction purposes and
costing $6 to $12 a dozen. The cotton absorbs better and is most
generally used for the bath. Good values in towels of this kind are to
be had for $2.50, $2.85, $3, and $4.50 a dozen. Good crash face cloths
cost 5 cents and even less.

Household linens must include, too, the 6 barred-linen kitchen towels at
10, 12, or 15 cents a yard, for drying silver and glass; and 6 heavier
towels, either barred or crash, for china and other ware, at the same
price, with 3 roller towels at 10 cents per yard; while last, but by no
means least, come the dozen neatly hemmed cheesecloth dusters at 5 cents
a yard, for men must work and women must sweep--and dust!

CHAPTER VI

THE KITCHEN

The old condition of "Queen-Anne-in-the-front-and-Mary-Ann-in-the-back"
in the home furnishing, when the largest outlay of money and taste was
put into the "front room" and the kitchen took the hindermost, has
gradually given way before the fact that a woman is known, not by the
drawing-room, but by the kitchen, she keeps. Given the requisite
qualifications for the proper furnishing, care, and ordering of her
kitchen, and it can usually be said of her with truth that she is
mistress of the entire home-making and home-keeping situation. If any
one room i