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the wee baby and for the toddling child, a chair 
bearing the motto, “When little feet grow weary,” 
may be found in this collection. 
Wicker furniture of diminutive size finds much 
favor for nurseries on account of its light weight as 
well as its durability. When these chairs are supplied 
with seat cushions and hack pads, covered with some 
appropriate material, they will he found comfortable, 
inexpensive and, best of all, suitable; for instance, a 
nursery Bar Harbor wicker chair here illustrated can 
be purchased for ^3.00. Idiis is just twenty-seven 
inches high, measuring to the top of the back, and 
eighteen inches in width. 
The Grantham chair and the Wimbledon lounge, 
always find favor with the children. 
The makers of china and silverware have also 
learned how much is to be gained by catering not 
only to the real wants but to pleasing the fancy of the 
child and as a result we have a bewildering array 
of china and silver for the little ones. In china we 
have cups and bowls and plates decorated' with the 
much loved Mother Goose rhymes and pictures. 
Manufacturers of china have also taken advantage 
of the great 
vogue of Peter 
Pan and we 
find the dishes 
telling this de¬ 
lightful fairy 
story. 
For the well- 
filled purse, 
there are some 
fine designs in 
table service 
of solid silver 
for the chil¬ 
dren. These 
are etched in 
attractive d e- 
signs, some 
THE GRANTHAM CHAIR showing the 
alphabet, others the Mother Goose pictures. Table 
covers and lamp-shades are also decorated fittingly 
for the nursery. In fact, a diligent search will 
reveal articles suited to the child’s rooni in almost 
every line of furnishing. 
A woman who had in her heart the desire to make 
her children happy with a room particularly their 
own, confesses that she has not found such pleas¬ 
ure in fitting or furnishing any of the other rooms 
of her house. She 
decided that two rooms 
were necessary for the 
children, one for the day 
nursery and the other for 
the night nursery. For 
the first named she chose 
a room of southern expo¬ 
sure, rightly feeling that 
its brightness and cheer¬ 
fulness would make not 
only for the happiness but 
health of her children. 
Under the three large win¬ 
dows of this room she had the old colony chair 
built a window-seat. This 
was eleven inches high with a hinged lid, so that 
the inside of the box seat could be utilized as 
a place to store the toys when not in use. On 
the top of this was a three-inch tufted cushion 
covered with plain green denim. One most unusual 
feature of this room was its wainscot. This was 
formed of panels of ground glass set in the green 
stained oak woodwork, extending about three feet 
in height. The glass was backed with a dark green 
felt, thus supplying these happy children with wash¬ 
able drawing-boards where they could exercise their 
artistic ideas with white or colored crayons to their 
hearts’ content. There was no single feature in the 
decoration of this play room that gave more unmiti¬ 
gated pleasure to the children. Above this, the 
thoughtful mother had the walls covered with a soft 
green paper which supplied an excellent background 
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