respectively, are extremely suggestive of 
tea-tables and play keep-house. Can 
there be any one with charity and senti- 
ment at heart who does not love to. play 
keep-house occasionally, not unlike, as 
the children would say, ‘‘‘Now, let’s pre- 
tend’? Perhaps it is the gate table in 
Fig. 2 which helps along the suggestion 
more than does the fireplace. 
It is hardly necessary to add that all 
kinds of portiéres, mantel scarves, laces 
and fussiness generally have no right to 
be in the bedroom. And it is doubtful 
if the cylindrical bolsters used in the 
/ shop windows for showing off bedsteads, 
and illustrated in Fig. 7, will ever super- 
sede legitimate pillows and pillow cases. 
| There is an insignificant, yet ghastly, 
| electrolier over the twin bedsteads in 
| Fig. 7 which would be fatal to the peace 
and repose of any bedroom, while what 
architectural exigency has called into ex- 6—UWapasered Walls Plain an Color 
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Where more than one bed is to be constructed, a 
long excavation, the width of the sash to be used 
and the length of the full number of sash to be 
employed, and about four feet deep, should be 
made; this is better than a number of small excava- 
tions, both for economy of construction and ease 
in handling from season to season. 
If concrete is used for the walls a wooden frame 
to correspond with the inside dimensions of the pit 
must be used for the laying up of the walls. This 
need not be a complete frame—one side and one 
end being sufficient; and a frame one foot in depth 
may be used and raised as the concrete sets. It 
should, however, turn the corners to insure perfect 
joints. ‘This should be set firmly four inches, or 
more, inside the earth walls and the space inside 
filled with a concrete of seven parts rough gravel 
to one of Portland cement. The last three or four 
inches at the top should be of a higher grade of 
cement—using four parts of sharp, sifted sand to 
one of cement. The frame may be of any inch or 
inch and a half stuff, and should be very firmly 
joined at the corners, using a strip of two or three 
LER O RE at? 
5—A Carpeted Bedroom 
istence the small window in the corner, and 
skied out of reach, the present deponent 
ventures not to divine. 
Construction and Care of the Hotbed 
By Ida D. Bennett 
O BE fully up to date and effectual 
the flower garden should have its 
inception and early nurture in well 
constructed and intelligently cared for hot- 
beds. These, in the case of small city lots 
where space is at a premium and the ground 
must be utilized for other purposes later on, 
may consist of simple frames set over a hole 
in the ground, to be removed later on and 
the space planted to vegetables. 
But where the grounds are spacious 
enough to admit of permanent beds, these 
will be found far more satisfactory, and 
should be constructed in a substantial man- 
ner of brick or concrete. 7—A Modern Bedroom with a Number of Faults 
