Inside the House 
Timely Suggestions and 
Answers to Correspondents 
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The Child’s Playroom 
L UCKY the child who has a playrooin 
that does not have to he cleared up. 
In such a playroom was recently seen, laid 
out on the dull red carpet, a miniature 
railroad, bridges, switches, roundhouses, 
yards and all, including sand for roads and 
walks. Suppose this had to be cleared up 
.when its owner had finished his game — 
would he not become discouraged soon 
when his handiwork must be demolished 
each day? In this cheerful room the cor¬ 
ner beyond the railroad was screened off 
with a “playhouse screen” representing a 
substantial brick house with a real screen 
door on hinges, and real windows, daintily 
curtained. 
The windows of the playroom were 
shaded by curtains bought in Germany — a 
suggestion which anyone may easily carry 
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out. The curtains are thick enough to 
hide disorder from neighborly eyes. They 
are made of German linen, natural color, 
and the animals and birds are of turkey 
red stitched on by chain-stitch machine. 
The line at bottom is machine chain-stitch¬ 
ing. These curtains have been washed 
many times, and are still as fresh and 
strong as when new. Unbleached muslin 
would be just as effective and wear as 
well. The only real furniture in the room 
is a piano. The wall has paper of a warm 
brown tint, with pastoral scenes as a frieze. 
There are ventilators in the windows — a 
plan every mother should follow for both 
sleeping-room and play-room. 
A plan to utilize a mantel or mock man¬ 
tel in a child’s room is carried out in this 
same house. White, unglazed tiles are set 
around the chimney opening, with a bor¬ 
der of nursery rhyme tiles at the top and 
sides. These tiles are made in 
dainty colorings, with pictures 
of nursery favorites and 
rhymes. In the opening a small 
blackboard is set, the edge fin¬ 
ished with a narrow molding tile, and a 
wider curved tile at the bottom to hold 
chalk and eraser. The children have made 
splendid use of this mantel arrangement, 
not only for the regular uses of a black¬ 
board but in copying the dainty pictures 
on the tiles. A mock mantel could also be 
arranged for the child’s room by setting 
the tiling and blackboard in the wall. 
There are twenty designs in the nursery 
tiles, size six by six. Work of this sort 
is best done by a professional tile setter, 
who will charge about fifty cents each, set 
in place. 
Bedroom Door Knockers 
A MONG the imported novelties in 
household effects is an interesting 
and unusual set of little knockers for bed¬ 
room doors, made in England, and includ- 
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