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The Place of Mirrors in the House 
(Continued from page 379) 
into the dining-room. These two uses for 
the looking-glass are perhaps not quite 
orthodox, but they are extremely practical. 
A legitimate spot for a built-in mirror 
is found in the bathroom, and in the closet 
door of the bedroom which is too small to 
admit of space for the cheval glass of a 
hundred years ago and has no wall mir¬ 
ror sufficiently large to reflect the entire 
person. This beveled-edge mirror should 
run the full length of the door, being set 
well into the woodwork as a frame. If 
the door is in such relation to the dressing- 
table mirror or to a wall mirror that one 
reflects into the other, it will often be con¬ 
venient to show the back of the figure. 
As stated before, almost any mirror will 
harmonize with the bedroom furnishings 
provided too heavy a style is not selected 
for a simple and artistic room. The simple 
oval mirror, or the oblong with one or two 
sections of glass or with a picture in the 
upper section and with plain frame, are 
in better taste for simple rooms than the 
more elaborate designs already described. 
Gilt or mahogany frames always look well 
with mahogany furniture; but when in 
doubt of a choice for a room in which the 
furniture is of no particular kind, choose 
a frame to match or to harmonize as nearly 
as possible with the woodwork of the 
room. 
There are no real antique dressing-tables 
with mirrors attached. Those that were 
made by Sheraton and Heppelwhite toward 
the end of the Eighteenth Century had 
a mechanical device which provided for 
the raising or hiding of the glass. This 
type is seldom copied in furniture to-day. 
The attached mirror came into use in the 
last century; before then it either hung 
above or stood upon the dressing-table. In 
the middle of the Eighteenth Century the 
little oval, shield-shaped or square swing¬ 
ing glass, standing above its one or two 
little drawers, was separate and placed on 
the “chest of drawers.” These Colonial 
pieces, often called shaving stands, are 
sometimes reproduced in the exact form 
of the originals, in soft woods enameled 
or stained to match cheaper grades of 
furniture, but they are popular only in the 
copies of the old mahogany and walnut 
stands. 
Some^New House Plant Suggestions 
(Continued from page 356) 
creased or renewed by cuttings, which root 
readily at almost any time of year with a 
little bottom heat. They can be grown 
from seed but this method is less certain, 
and does not give such fragrant flowers. 
The heliotrope objects to any sudden 
change, whether of temperature, watering, 
or soil, and at once turns brown and drops 
its leaves. Proper care and cutting back 
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