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House & Garden 
Essentials in Bedroom Furnishing 
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adjusted from which to hang the cur¬ 
tain. The curtain should hang about 
15" wide on either side and be the 
full width of 50" material. It may 
be looped back with straps or hung 
softly over the bed, coming almost 
to the floor on the wall side. 
It may be trimmed with a ruffled 
or turned back hem and ruffled piping 
of another color. The bed-spread 
should be made to match and at one 
end place an oval pillow with ruffle or 
piping as the case may be. 
For such a bed arrangement, use 
a simple curved lined day bed, painted 
and antiqued in a soft mauve. The 
bed-drapery could be of rose-silk and 
the piping of mauve. The same cur¬ 
tains could be used as one drapes a 
window—with a soft mauve gauze 
under-curtain. The dressing table 
and night stand should be painted to 
match the bed and the all-over up¬ 
holstered chair and the slipper chair 
upholstered in an ivory mauve and 
rose striped material. On the night 
stand can be an amethyst color Vene¬ 
tian glass candle-stick and beaker for 
water. The floor border can be 
painted in rose with a mauve rug and 
the walls in ivory. Lamp shades 
should be of yellow Georgette crepe 
to warm the room—with tiny ruffles 
of rose and mauve picot edge and the 
lamp itself of Chinese porcelain with 
that exquisite rose mauve shiny glaze. 
A tiny decorated writing desk in pis- 
tache green would be a stellar note. 
Beds for Business Women 
The tired business woman will find 
a mahogany low four poster bed suit¬ 
able and graceful. A good covering 
is made by embroidery on heavy un¬ 
bleached cotton cloth, a Jacobean de¬ 
sign in crewel in dull blues, greens 
and tans. This spread, by the way, 
could be embroidered at night as the 
stitches are large, and even a busi¬ 
ness woman likes a homey touch that 
she has created herself. If this is 
impractical for her, she may use a 
spread of cretonne, with a turn-down" 
under which to slip the pillow, edged 
with silk in green or whatever color 
is found in the cretonne. It is much 
more interesting and effective to 
choose for the plain color the less 
obvious tone in a cretonne to bring 
out in the room. If a cretonne has 
a great deal of rose, a little lavender 
and the same amount of green and 
blue, use the green for the color in 
bindings or accessories, or the mauve 
as one’s taste lies. 
On the night stand should be the 
light, preferably electric, although 
some folks like a candle to read 
themselves to sleep by. If the lamp 
shade is of silk, see that it is lined 
with white, as this will shed a better 
reading light. In fact, a paper or 
vellum shade seems a little too hard 
for a bedside light. Electric lights 
that screw onto the bed are excellent 
for reading but they are not particu¬ 
larly decorative. 
The Beautifying Group 
The beautifying group consists of 
a dressing table, a chiffonier or bu¬ 
reau or a chifferole for a man’s use. 
Once on a day these came in shining 
golden oak and were monstrosities, 
but now they may be had “in the 
plain” from the manufacturers and 
stained and painted any color desired. 
By using an inconspicuous color for 
paint and striping, thus breaking the 
large plain surfaces, the chifferole 
does not appear so cumbersome and 
certainly becomes a convenient piece 
of furniture. 
Almost any bureau or chiffonier is 
improved by taking off the mirror and 
hanging it by itself at the required 
height. A chiffonier and dressing 
table make a useful combination— 
much better than the old-fashioned 
bureau, as one could not sit close 
enough to dress at a bureau. 
A dressing table with a triplicate 
mirror is the most serviceable and 
decorative type. The most attractive 
style I know has slender mirror 
frames with curved tops. 
But the most important thing about 
the dressing table is the light it is 
given. When there are no available 
side wall lights, an electric attach¬ 
ment may be clamped onto the middle 
glass and covered with a pretty silk 
shade of suitable design. 
Charming little dressing tables can 
be made from a set of drawers or 
just a box with a shelf placed midway 
for slippers, etc., and covered witli 
taffeta or cretonne in long ruffles. A 
plain mirror frame may be covered 
with a flat rouche of silk or tightly 
covered with cretonne, and hung 
above the table. 
A tiny manicuring table is such a 
luxury that I am surprised that more 
bedrooms do not boast them. One 
usually balances a dish of soapy water 
on her knee or takes the gloss off a 
mahogany table top when she sets it 
down. A tiny, oval black lacquered 
table with a drawer would serve the 
purpose admirably. Drawn up to the 
slipper chair or by the chaise longue, 
it would be a real joy and conven¬ 
ience to be appreciated. 
The slipper chair, by the way, has 
become almost a necessity in these 
da 3 ^s of fat living and higher gaiters. 
Low, snugly upholstered, they are 
most conveniently placed at the foot 
of the bed. An ordinary high chair 
may be converted into a very pre¬ 
sentable slipper chair by taking a few 
inches off its legs. 
The Boudofr End 
The remaining group is the boudoir 
end of the room. Some lucky ladies 
have a real boudoir or sitting-room 
but many of us are thoroughly grati¬ 
fied by having a bed-room large 
enough to have assembled in one end 
the essentials of a boudoir. 
The main thing is to have a chaise 
longue. Whether it is of silk, linen 
or wicker doesn’t matter—but a chaise 
longue spells comfort and harmony 
in its every line. Of course, a tea 
gown goes with a chaise longue, and 
that should match, for if we are going 
in for effects, we must have colorful 
groups—including the lady. 
If the chaise longue is of wicker— 
which would be the very last choice 
anj'way—have it upholstered as to 
silk back seat and new valance. 
A very good couch for a boudoir is 
5' long with a rachet end which will 
let down when one wishes to lie 
down. This, by the way, will put 
up an extra guest, or is excellent in 
case of sickness for which only 5' of 
room is taken up, and it makes a very 
comfortable bed. 
A little sewing table should be 
there, preferably with a colored bag 
beneath to add a spot of brilliant 
color to the room, and a little mahog¬ 
any rocker. There is hardly a woman 
who would not openly or covertly 
wish for a low rocker to sew in. And 
after all homes should be human— 
and it’s going to take at least one 
more generation before we become 
educated out of rockers. 
In one corner we should find a 
desk. Adorable little desks are now 
being made for bedrooms, scarcely a 
half yard wide with one drawer 
underneath and a fold-back top with 
pigeon holes for paper, etc. They 
are a comfort and really for use. Not 
the least of their advantages is their 
small size. 
