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Where the house is sufficiently supplied with closets, 
one should be reserved for wrapping paper and string. 
This “shipping room” will be appreciated 
A Closet For Everything 
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at most a cedar-lined closet of ordinary 
dimensions, but here is a closet the size 
of a small room, roofed, walled and 
floored with cedar, and provided with 
an outside window and electric lights. 
Along one side extends a pole for hang¬ 
ing garments, and on the other are 
shelves for boxes and bundles. A large 
chest affords additional protection to fur 
coats laid therein at full length. 
For Youngsters and Others 
It is generally acknowledged that the 
law of orderliness should be impressed 
upon children at an early age, but few 
homes afford the necessary conditions 
for putting it into practice. A box or 
drawer of totally inadequate size is 
often the only receptacle provided to 
hold the child’s little belongings, and 
the confusion and inconvenience which 
attend its use are a direct contradiction 
of the very principle it is designed to 
inculcate. 
What a contrast between the over¬ 
flowing box or crowded drawer and the 
ample storage space provided in the 
playroom of this house of wonderful 
closets! The room occupies one half of 
the attic and measures about 24' by 40'. 
One entire wall is lined with built-in 
bookcases and shallow cupboards for the 
smaller playthings, and at either end, 
under the eaves, are three deep closets 
separated by dormers, in which are kept 
the larger toys and games. 
Truly, there seems no reason why 
every member of a household that is 
blessed with such uncommon facilities 
for maintaining order should not be an 
ardent exponent of the gospel of “a 
closet for everything and everything in 
a closet.” 
The Best Purple and Lavender Flowers 
(Continued from page 27) 
lengthwise of it, making it, indeed, 
perhaps, nothing more than a grassy 
path bordered with flowers. In the 
event of its being only this, however, I 
would not give it the sharp edges usual¬ 
ly desirable where paths and borders 
meet; but let the growth be irregular, 
encroaching here and there upon the 
width of the path, and turning it into 
a little glade rather than a path. 
In the triangle of the three primary 
colors, purple lies midway between the 
blue and the red; and, according as it 
approaches the one or the other the 
lighter shades become lavenders or 
mauves, lavender being rather more 
blue than red, and mauve rather more 
ruddy than blue. The warm purples 
and mauves are more desirable colors 
usually than the cold purples and lav¬ 
enders, for the reason that they are 
warm. They have in them more of 
that quality of sunlight that pervades 
these colors outdoors, in the form of 
shadows; hence a garden devoted to 
these tints will be more inviting than 
one wherein the chilly bluish purples 
are in evidence. 
It is, of course, possible to grade 
from one set of colors to the other, by 
means of the flowers that are on the 
border of each—the purely purple flow¬ 
ers, in whose color red and blue have 
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