HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 
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all the brooms and cleaning implements, 
making it unnecessary to bring any up 
from downstairs. 
The principal guest room and the 
master's room were much alike, both be¬ 
ing cozy, with a fireplace, reading-table, 
built-in seat in a jog at one side of the 
fireplace, and book-shelves set into each 
side of the chimney breast. The prin¬ 
cipal guest-room connected with another, 
slightly smaller, through a large closet at 
one side of the fireplace. Such an ar¬ 
rangement is convenient for a visiting 
family, especialy when there is a child, 
giving them a suite in which they may en¬ 
joy the privacy of their own home. This 
closet was provided with hooks and hang¬ 
ers on one side and with shelves and 
drawers on the other. When only one 
guest-room was in use this closet could 
be given to either room by locking the 
other door. 
In this room were also two large ward¬ 
robe closets, one for the master and one 
for his wife, both electrically wired so 
that opening the door put on a light and 
closing the door extinguished it. In a 
corner at one side of the fireplace was a 
small medicine closet, the usual wall cabi¬ 
net of the bathrom being reserved for 
toilet articles exclusively. 
In all of the chambers the space under 
the low eaves, so often wasted, was 
sheathed inside, partitioned off and pro¬ 
vided with doors so that nearly every 
room had its closet for trunks and travel¬ 
ing-bags. When they are so conveniently 
at hand, packing for a journey is robbed 
of half its terrors ; there is no labor of get¬ 
ting them down from the attic, nor danger 
of their rusting or mildewing, as when in 
the cellar. 
These eaves closets were of value, also, 
in the children’s nursery for large play¬ 
things. One of them was even arranged 
as a miniature room, with tiny furnish¬ 
ings. The tops of the built-in seats be¬ 
tween bookcases were all hinged for 
storage of games underneath, and a small 
wall-closet held the more precious small 
toys. 
All things considered, this old, re¬ 
modeled house has better closet provisions 
than most new ones. Everything seems 
to have been provided for, with the result 
that it is no task to keep every room in an 
orderly condition. Intelligent forethought 
in this matter, as in this instance, will do 
more than almost any other one thing to 
make housekeeping a pleasure and to en¬ 
sure a lasting satisfaction in the home. 
The additional expense of providing such 
closets as have been described, and which 
you do not already have, is relatively in¬ 
considerable by comparison with the com¬ 
fort they give, and if included when 
building a new house they add virtually 
nothing to the total cost. Skimp not on 
closets is good advice; go the limit, and 
you will never regret it. 
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