HOW TO PACK A TRUNK
First you need a trunk, if
it's dusty and rusty, a careful dusting inside and out is
necessary, the medal trimmings can be brightened with witchcloth ,
leather straps rubbed with sweet oil. Next, line it out with
newspaper. Everything you are to pack needs to be made in readiness,
like folded, then set near by, to save running around in a daze
looking for this and that.
The thousand and one
'little things' are to be but in boxes and taped. Under clothing
place at the very bottom of the trunk, here to can go your favorite
hat. Wrap it in tissue paper.
Stockings, shoes, other
favorites, are used to fill in the spaces to keep your packaging
level
and no elevations or
depressions. Shirts, skirts, pants, pack closely and be sure they
are folded.
For the jackets, use the
hangers, the silks, challies, ginghams, lay down flat. Next goes in
everything else, tightly.
You do not want any airspace to cause 'rattling'.
Now try to close it, have
the most heavy one of the family sit on it while you fasten the
straps, so that the locks come together.
ABSTRACT: July 2017,
Harrison H from The St Louis Republic by way of the Washington
Weekly Post, 8 May, 1900.
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