A STITCH IN TIME

Shannon News, 17 May 1927, Page 4

A STITCH IN TIME

A complete inventory of one's stock of household linen should be made and fastened up with drawing pins ihside the cupboard door. . From time to time the contents of the cupboard should be checked with the list, for it frequently happehs that laundries send back the correct number but the wrong articles. Table napkins that w r ere a full dozen some weeks ago may now be only eight, with oddments of napkins making up the dozen. Of course, this could not happen in a well-cared-for cupboard. Each time the cupboard is thoroughly overhauled, the list will have to be amended, and it is a good practice ro leave a column on one side of the list for remarks concerning the condition of the various items. Some of the sheets may be getting- thin—a note will act as a .reminder to have these turned. There may be pillowslips practically' on their last legs;, these should be used first and then discarded. In long-established households the linen cupboard often tends to become a home for decrepid articles —with _ shelxes where tablecloths, worn thin, and napkins with frayed edges may rest in peace! Actually they are. dead stock; twelve sheets, of which six are almost useless, are not a dozen sheets.