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Popular Science Monthly 



Clothes-Line Suggestions 



IT is stupid for a woman to stoop 

 nearly to the ground every time she 

 lifts a sheet from the basket for hanging 

 up on the line. It is dull to carry the 

 heavy basket of wet clothes all around 

 the yard, or to leave it in one spot and 



Make permanent 

 loops in the ends 

 of the clothes-line 



take walking tours in a spiderweb path 

 back and forth from basket to line. 

 Besides, it is easy to soil the bottom of 

 the basket if the yard is also a garden. 

 These useless motions are obviated by 

 pulling the basket around upon a little 

 wagon, which is of convenient height. 



When comforters and other heavy 

 bedding are washed they do not dry 

 quickly if hung upon a single line. The 

 inside of the folded piece is not touched 

 by sunshine and wind and the texture 

 is too thick for penetration from the 

 outer side. String two lines parallel, 



about two feet apart. This allows air 

 to circulate up under the "tent." For 

 dresses also this scheme is very satis- 

 factory. 



A clothes-pin carrier can be made from 

 a grape basket. Suspend it from the 

 line by a stout wire bent into a loop at 

 each end, and push it along the wire 

 ahead of you. 



A small wooden reel on which to 

 wind a rope clothes-line saves the 

 trouble of unraveling the tangles which 

 get in, if it is rolled or looped up in a 

 ball. Permanent loops at the ends of the 

 rope and at intervals, spaced like the 

 distance between posts, will save time 

 and temper in stretching the line and 

 making new knots each week. 



A Sanitary Kitchen Sink 



IN setting kitchen sinks it has always 

 been a rule to set the sink under the 

 drain-board, and as the drain-board 

 extends over the edge of the sink, 

 it forms a bad place for dirt and 

 grease to collect which no kind of 



A simple wooden reel and a handy basket 

 to suspend from the line, make clothes- 

 hanging easier 



The close-fitting drain-board prevents the 

 collecting of dirt 



brush or cloth can dislodge. To improve 

 this condition, use a solid drain-board 

 and cut out the center large enough to 

 let the sink through. The flange or rim 

 of the sink will hang on the drain-board 

 about ^ of an inch all around. Drop 

 the sink into this hole and with a sharp 

 pencil mark around the rim. Rabbet 

 this out about ^ of an inch, or so that 

 the rim will go into this rabbet and 

 finish flush with the top of the drain- 

 board. Take thick white lead or soft 

 putty to bed the sink in. This sink will 

 not leak and is sanitary, — Wm. J. Albin. 



