I have been busy indoors, upholstering not only curtains and couches, but ever so many boxes, as our bureaus are shallow and our closets small.
But while failing to make any public impression, the little book soon found its way into thousands of closets and sick-rooms and houses of mourning, carrying a blessing with it.
In Edinburgh there are also many closets supplied with movable metal pails, which are likewise removed daily.
Letheby states that the sewer water in towns with water-closets has the following average composition per gallon: Organic matter 27.
It is a common practice in the north of England to throw coal ashes on the excreta, which fall into closets made with hinged flaps or seats for the purpose of admitting the ashes, as at Manchester and Salford.
The small cisterns for service water should not be placed in positions where it can receive the emanation of water closets or sleeping apartments.
The overflows from safes of the water-closets were practically untrapped.
The water-closets were pan closets, and were trapped by D traps.
Windows should be tightly closed, beds, closets and drawers opened, and bedding spread out over chairs in order to expose them fully to the fumes.
It will enter closets and hide in the folds of garments.
The locks of none of the openedclosets had been forced; therefore the delinquents had keys.
The opening and shutting of doors and closets could be heard from the bedrooms above.
They opened all closets and doors, and sounded the walls; until five o'clock they were absolute masters of the place.
On the second floor these closets were by far the most irregular and numerous.
The fine woodwork shows the original paneling; the great fireplaces with their chimney closetshave been preserved intact, and even the old, hand-made hardware has been retained for present-day use.
These were not always satisfactory, as little or no care was given to the arrangement of the rooms, and in many houses closets were little considered.
This is shown in the numberless closets at the right, for flour barrel and other supplies.
A feature is the great, open fireplace and the bricked chimney-breast, with small closets at one side.
At the right of it is a china closet with mullioned glass door, and on the left two narrower closets are found in the paneling.
Illustration: The Sun-Parlor] The old-time parlor showed two deep closets beside the fireplace.
At the rear, the old kitchen was converted into a most attractive hallway and stairway, with closets and lavatory located at the farther side.
Sometimes three of these closets have been found built into the fireplaces, all of which were used to hold the household china.
The old fireplace has been preserved, as has the brick oven, and over it is a series of small closets such as are rarely found.
Later in the day, Elaine had both Marie and Bertholdi carrying armsful of her dresses from the closets in her room up to the attic where the last of her trunks were being packed.
My first impulse was to search the study, looking in all the closets and table drawers.
I searched the closets and pulled open the drawers; found her coat and hat gone, but not Mrs. Van Burnam's brown skirt, though the purse had been taken out of the pocket.
They are apt, however, to contain closets and these require some special care.
After the water is turned off, empty the tanks of the closets as they may rust if water stands in them several months.
There are many closets sins that professors may be guilty of, and from which they have need to depart.
Be as often in your closets as you will; the oftener there the better.
Surely they that can scarce tie their shoes, and their garters, before they arrive at the tavern, or get to the coffee-house door in a morning, can scarce spare time to be a while in their closets with God.
In their closets they are at liberty to speak unto their God, who can bear with, and pity them with us; and pardon all our weakness for the sake of Jesus Christ.
Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light, and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the house-tops.
In American homes there are no closets whose doors children are afraid to pass, or to open, even after dark.
It is hung with Japanese lanterns, and the closets are filled with wonderful old china.
They found the men in one of the first rooms: not engaged in the examination of its fastenings or its closets (and the whole house abounded in closets and cupboards), but with their heads together, talking in whispers.
The next step is to set the water flowing in the various closets and watch the flow at the external trap, or opening, which has been made to ascertain whether there is any obstruction in the pipe within the house.
Water-closets and privies should also be disinfected daily with the same fluid or a solution of chloride of iron, one pound to a gallon of water, adding one or two ounces of carbolic acid.
Nearly all the water-closets now in use have a somewhat complicated mechanism about their bowls.
For use in public places some of the hopper closets are very satisfactory, the best which I have examined being the Rhoads Hopper and the Hellyer Hoppers.
If they are thrown into water-closets or privies, they should have added to them a portion of sulphate of iron.
Where water-closets are used fecal matter is generally added to the flow, but its relative quantity is small, and its presence or absence does not seriously affect the problem of disposal.
Water-closets should always be flushed from a special tank provided for the purpose, and never direct from the main system of water-pipes.
It would be out of place here to enter into a detailed description of the various closetswhich are and which are not to be recommended for use.
The flush must be large and rapid, and this requires a large supply-pipe, and for many forms of closets a flushing rim.
Such closets may be easily inspected as to their condition by shutting off the water-supply, opening the pan, and lowering a candle into the container below.
What pockets are to a man or business woman in clothes, closets and shelves are to a woman in her house, and yet she usually has to fight for them with the architect as the business woman does for pockets with her dressmaker.
Shelves are preferable to closets for this purpose.
Shelves are better than closetsfor the keeping of the bed linen.
I wish some of your northern servants could look at her closets of dresses,--silks and muslins, and one real linen cambric, she has hanging there.
There are now no dark rooms opening on airless pits for the family, or black closets and dismal basements for the servants.
There is some light shining now which may enable the searcher in dark closets of the past to discover meanings there which former explorers failed to find.
Therefore those expounders let such facts remain undisturbed in the rarely visited closets where they have long reposed.
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