HOUSE AND GARDEN 
180 
March, 
I9D 
There are many conveniences worth while in this attractive bedroom with its twin beds. The table between the bedsteads supports a telephone and 
a reading lamp, and space for books. The switch for the light may be reached from the bed m 
light, sometimes found it is hard enough for men to brush their 
hair, and much more difficult for women to do their own. In ad¬ 
dition light for shaving should 
also be provided either in the bed¬ 
room or bathroom, preferably the 
latter. 
In this connection it is well to 
add that all mirrors should be so 
placed or hung that one can get a 
good light in them. The writers 
know of one handsomely furnished 
apartment where all the mirrors 
are so unfortunately placed that 
it is impossible to get sufficient 
light in any of them, and anyone 
who attempts to shave by their aid 
is very apt to look afterwards as 
though he had been through a Ger¬ 
man students’ duel. A dresser with 
a mirror in three parts is desirable, 
the two end sections being hinged 
and adjustable. Then, too, there 
ought to be a pier or cheval glass, 
and it is an excellent idea to have 
a full length mirror set on the in¬ 
side of the closet door. In fact such a mirror may take the place 
of a cheval glass, although one ought to be provided if possible. 
A good variety of dresser or dressing table is somewhat con¬ 
cave in front, so that anyone seated before it may have the 
various drawers and compartments readily accessible on either 
hand. Presuming that the guest-chamber is to be used sometimes 
for women and sometimes for men, it is necessary to have a 
bureau or chiffonier as well as a ladies' dresser. Besides these 
there should be an ample chest of 
drawers so that there may be an 
abundance of room for the be¬ 
stowal of clothing. In bureau, 
chest and dresser the hostess 
should look to it that the drawers 
run easily and do not stick. It is 
a good plan to have glass plates 
to put on the tops of both bureau 
and dresser. In the first place 
they are clean and easily kept 
so, and in the second, as far as 
the guest is concerned, he or she 
doesn’t like to feel that a bottle of 
alcohol or cologne or what not 
may be spilled or leave a mark on 
a cover or on the woodwork. 
It is an excellent idea to have 
the inside of the drawers in the 
ladies’ dresser painted white and 
enameled. This gives a whole¬ 
some appearance and aids in the 
removal of any dust that may col¬ 
lect there. The paint should be laid on carefully, however, and- 
the enamel surface be perfectly smooth, with no tendency to 
stickiness, or the work will be worse than useless. Somewhere, in 
bureau, chest, closet or table there ought without fail to be a 
handy drawer containing needles, thread, buttons, mucilage, 
stickers, string, wrapping paper and a thousand and one other 
The four-poster is suggestive of comfort. The two chairs at its 
foot serve in lieu of a lounge 
