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2 — The white plastered walls of this room are paneled with a small molding and 

 painted a French gray. The bed covering and curtains to the window 

 are of the same material. 



on the walls and 

 painting it white. 

 The transformation 

 was delightful. Not 

 only was a sense of 

 space immediately 

 given by the white 

 to a room other- 

 wise seemingly 

 cramped, but a 

 charming feeling of 

 freshness and pur- 

 ity was added. The 

 paneling, too, 

 stamped the room 

 at once as out of the 

 ordinary, giving it 

 the authority of a 

 well thought out de- 

 sign. Yet all this 

 was done by the ex- 

 ercise only of taste 

 and discretion, and 

 without the outlay 

 of too many dol- 

 lars. 



The furnishing of 

 the room carries out 



in every detail the same sense of the well-thought-out and 

 delightful. The bed is of gray enamelled iron. The bed 

 trimmings repeat 

 the curtains. Thus 

 the spread, valance 

 and window hang- 

 ings are all of . a 

 thick white spotted 

 dimity, very wide 

 and costing ninety 

 cents a yard. This 

 is trimmed with a 

 band of figured 

 chintz put on an 

 inch or two from 

 the edge. The 

 chintz, by the way, 

 shows a striped de- 

 sign, and if this 

 fashion of trim- 

 ming is to be adopt- 

 ed, care must be 

 taken to buy a ma- 

 terial that can be 

 divided in stripes, 

 as an ordinary 

 flowered or figured 

 material, when cut 

 as a trimming, 

 would produce a 

 sense of confusion. 

 The curtains are 

 looped back by 

 wide bands of white 

 dimity, an arrange- 

 ment that gains its 

 note of distinction 

 from an enormous 

 disc of the chintz 

 sewed on the front 

 of the band. This 

 disc is made by tak- 



Fig. 3 — The bedspread is of gray dimity trimmed with a flowered chintz which 



harmonizes with the gray striped wall-paper on the walls and the 



curtains hung at the windows. 



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ing a strip of the 

 required length and 

 sewing it together 

 at the ends. The in- 

 side edge of the 

 strip is then gath- 

 ered and pulled 

 tight into a center, 

 which leaves the 

 outer edge free to 

 Hare. The center is 

 finished with a 

 large button cov- 

 ered with the 

 chintz. Against the 

 window panes, thin 

 white muslin cur- 

 tains are hung. 

 Outside on the sill, 

 a window box is* 

 filled with growing 

 plants. A gray- 

 white dressing ta- 

 ble, a night table 

 and chair of French 

 design, complete the 

 furniture of the 

 room. On the night 

 table stands the electric lamp for reading, covered by a 

 soft shade. The pictures are all old French prints, so pre- 

 serving the general 

 harmonies, and it is 

 the negligence of 

 just such minor de- 

 tails which destroys 

 so many interiors. 



In the bedroom 

 of the mistress be- 

 longing to this same 

 apartment, the win- 

 dow hangings and 

 the bed arrange- 

 ments of the mas- 

 ter's room are re- 

 peated, but the ef- 

 fect gains variety 

 not only by the 

 larger size of the 

 room, but by the 

 color of the walls, 

 which in this in- 

 stance are covered 

 by a cool gray- 

 white striped paper. 

 That which makes 

 the room altogether 

 feminine is the 

 dressing-table, an 

 article of furniture 

 charming in itself. 

 We see too few 

 dressing-tables in 

 this country. The 

 ugly and necessary 

 bureau has unhap- 

 pily taken its place. 

 This one is not only 

 exquisite in itself, 

 but has conveniences 

 which most tables 



