n in the soiled-linen basket. Evening silk
hose can be worn several times. The undervest, or undershirt, and the
drawers should be also subjected to a vigorous shaking, and hung on the
back of the same chair where you have already placed your hose. All
these intimate garments are to be aired, and the chair on which you have
hung them taken to the window.

Use a closet and a chest of drawers for your clothes. If you are in very
limited quarters, six drawers and a trunk should be sufficient for all
your belongings. The evening clothes occupy one drawer or shelf, and the
morning and afternoon suits the other or two others. The remainder will
be for linen, underclothing, ties, and handkerchiefs.

Between each suit of clothes there should be laid a newspaper; those
publications which use the blackest of printer's ink--the surest
antidote for moths--being the best for this purpose. Cover the top of
each pile of clothes, when the drawer or shelf is full, with a clean
towel.

In a chest with four drawers the bottom one should be used for
underclothes, the top for handkerchiefs, hose, and ties, and the two
intermediate for your linen. The closet will have to serve for your
suits of clothes, or, in lieu of that, your trunk. Otherwise the
last-mentioned receptacle is the place for clothes out of season,
carefully laid away with a full complement of newspaper and camphor.

When you remove your shirt at night, or when you change for dinner, be
careful to take out the buttons and sleeve links, unless you intend to
wear the garment again. In that case, hang it up in your closet.

The first gift which a bachelor usually receives from his sister or his
sweetheart is a handkerchief case, and I hardly need advise you to
purchase what is a standard Christmas offering. Keep your handkerchiefs
in this, your neatly folded ties in the second division of the drawer,
and your hose in the third. If you should have a silver and plush
pincushion with a movable top, your small articles of jewelry go in its
interior, or in a small box in the top drawer.

Silk hats, Derbies, and Alpines or soft-felt hats should never be
brushed with a whisk broom. A hatter will sell you for a small sum a
soft brush with a pliable plush back, which will do for smoothing your
silk hat, the bristles to be applied in removing the dust. A silk
handkerchief will also smooth a silk hat. Frequent ironing destroys the
nap. Straw hats can be cleaned by first rubbing them