The Curtains at Night by Mrs. I. H. E.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 16, 1915

The Curtains at Night

By Mrs. I. H. E.

No doubt many women feel as one has expressed it, that “the pinning up of the curtains before opening the windows at night is the last straw that breaks the tired housekeeper’s back.” The nightly protest of tired arms and back led this woman to think out an easier way than pinning them up, draping them over a picture, or even leaving them to swing back and forth against the screens in the damp night air. A white bone ring (costing from five to ten cents a dozen) was sewed in the middle of each curtain hem, on the wrong side. Brass hooks were placed on each side of the window frame, rather high up; and when bedtime came, it took but a moment to hook the curtains over these, and protect them from the breezes that would otherwise soon make them limp and unsightly.

MRS. I. H. E.