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��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.

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