, winter stovepipes
with their elbows, piles of magazines systematically tied together by
years, trunks, etc. In each trunk place its own special key and strap,
and when garments or other articles are packed therein, fasten to the
lid a complete list of its contents. Upholstered furniture must be
closely covered with old muslin or ticking. The family tool chest
seems to fit into the attic, as well as the small boxes of nails, rolls
of wire, screws, bolts, and the hundred odds and ends of hardware which
the lord of the house must be able to lay his hand on when he wants to
do any tinkering about the place. A semiannual sweeping, mopping, and
dusting will keep the attic in good condition if thoroughly done, with
the help of the "place for everything, and everything in its place," a
precept as well as an example which has entered prominently into the
upbringing of most of us. Here is another spot where corners and
cobwebs like to hobnob, and such intimacy must be sternly discouraged.
If old garments are kept in the attic, they should be either packed
away in labeled boxes or trunks, or hung on a line stretched across the
room and carefully covered with an old sheet. This line is also
serviceable when rainy days and lack of other room make it necessary,
to dry the washing here. The modern attic is for utility only, and so
its story is soon told.

CLOSETS

If woman's rights would only usurp one more of what have hitherto been
almost exclusively man's rights--the profession of architecture--she
would in truth become the architect, not only of her own fortune, but
of the fortunes of a suffering sisterhood, whose great plaint is, "So
many things and no place to put them!" For who ever knew a mere man,
architect and artist of the beautiful though he were, who had even the
beginning of a realization of the absolute necessity for closets--large
ones, light ones, and plenty of them? In his special castle, boxes,
bundles, and clothing seem to have a magic way of disposing of
themselves, "somewhere, somewhen, somehow," and so it does not occur to
him that his own particular Clorinda is conducting a private condensing
plant which could put those of the large packers to the blush. But let
him have just one experience of straightening out and putting to
rights, and then only will he appreciate that closets are even more
essential than cozy corners and unexpected nooks and crannies for
holding pieces of statuary and colle