N o v c m her, 1916 
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A YOUNG GIRL’S ROOM 
ANITA DE CAM PI 
All the articles and ideas in this description of a young girl's room are appro¬ 
priately modest in price. They may be freely offered to the young girl with 
the certainty that they will tend to cultivate her appreciation of things that 
are in good taste without inculcating a spirit of extravagance 
Blue paint transformed the 
furniture. The attractive 
rug shown is of Japanese 
make and cost only $6.75 
The lambrequins and chan¬ 
delier disguise were made 
by the girls. The old oak 
bed serves as a day bed 
Courtesy of Marshall Field & Co, 
She should be allowed a simple dressing table with The color scheme in this room includes pearl and white glazed striped paper, 
side drawers deep enough to hold toilet bottles dull orange curtains, cushions and lampshades, black and white linen slip covers 
I N decorating and furnishing a young girl’s 
room, the spirit of youth should be palpable. 
The room calls for a type of furnishing 
peculiarly distinctive. It must not look like a 
nursery, nor yet like a boudoir—but just nicely 
little-girlish and dainty. 
The gir) of the house for whom this article is 
planned is a school girl. Her room will prob¬ 
ably be moderate in size, Perhaps slip may have 
to_ share it with a younger sister, and so many 
things may not he crowded into it- Some articles, 
however, uncommon to other bedrooms, are 
necessary for her daily comfort. Because she 
v/ill study in her room, she must have a book¬ 
case and writing paraphernalia. The furniture 
selected should be small in scale, simple in line, 
gay in color, and trifling in cpst. Any piece that 
carries with it the conviction of its real intrinsic 
worth is inappropriate. 
We all have a sense of the fitness of certain 
Colors, ornaments and fabrics for certain ages, 
It is this sense that dictates crisp ribbons, tub 
frocks, and fresh flowers for the personal adorn¬ 
ment of girls, in preference to satins, laces and 
jewels, and the same unwritten rule holds in o the 
choice of furnishings for their room. 1. !.• 
If the room is to have real human interest, it 
must be considered as relative, to me little occu¬ 
pant rather than to its geogiaphical location. That 
the window faces north, and so the room requires 
warm colors, or faces west, and so requires cool 
colors, is a correct axiam-*-it is one. that the pro¬ 
fessional decorator makes* without.* challenge. 
But mothers who have cultivated’ a. s'engp pi; t-fie ' 
artistic, and cannot uncouple it from’tfio*ay>{dica^ 
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