ture that, because of its short-lived possi¬ 
bilities of use, is not practical for ordinary 
householders, however charming its Lili- 
putian efifect. There are small-sized Co¬ 
lonial style chairs and rockers that go well 
with this, and a small chintz-covered 
screen. Little Chinese hour-glass chairs 
go well with mahogany, and cost one dol 
lar fifty each. Since they are very small, 
they do nicely for a child’s first chair. 
A pretty, white-painted set in dull finish 
is of very plain design and quite small, the 
bedstead costing fourteen dollars, the 
dresser seventeen fifty, a chififonier with 
glass, fourteen fifty; without glass, twelve 
dollars. The bedstead has a picture in 
serted in the headboard. 
A white maple set put on the market last 
season is finished in enamel. The bed¬ 
stead, dresser, toilet table and two chairs 
are sold at ninety dollars, and the set is 
an uncommonly attractive one for a girl 
of from six to fourteen years, as it is not 
very small, and is extremely good in de¬ 
sign. For the small boy’s room the style 
known as Mission proves durable and 
pleasing. In the best makes of this style, 
the original models, not the debased imita¬ 
tions, there are wardrobes, bedsteads and 
dressers fitted specially to the needs of the 
child, and their warm, brown coloring 
when built in oak, or cool gray if maple 
was the wood employed, gives pleasing re¬ 
sults with woodwork and wall coverings 
planned in harmony. A plain furniture 
that comes from Boston is very reasonable 
in cost, and its freedom from superfluous 
ornament is refreshing. Children’s arm¬ 
chairs and rockers in this make cost four 
dollars and twenty-five cents and four dol¬ 
lars and fifty cents, respectively, while a 
little reproduction in chestnut of the fa¬ 
mous Windsor chair model comes at two 
dollars, and a round chestnut table of 
thirty-inch diameter costs three dollars. 
Iron cribs procured of this Boston manu¬ 
facturer cost from about ten to thirteen 
dollars, with from two dollars for a “soft 
top’’ to nine dollars for a horse-hair mat¬ 
tress. 
An oak screen with burlap covering can 
be had for six dollars. A brass bed for a 
child costs usually about twenty-five dol¬ 
lars, including a hair mattress. 
Rugs are woven by the women who 
still, in smaller towns and villages, keep up 
this handicraft, for about twenty-five cents 
a yard, if material is furnished. Rugs 
woven from cretonne are sold in the shops 
in all sizes, a rug three by six feet costing, 
in a duck design that appeals to a child, 
about three dollars. If there is much 
ornament in a room a plain rug is prefer¬ 
able. 
In planning the child’s room, pictures 
and decorations, as well as the colors of 
walls, woodwork and furniture, are se¬ 
lected with all possible regard to the 
chosen color scheme. The plain walls of 
the hygienic room need pictures, and there 
are the best of pictures to choose from; 
the color prints that come to us from sev- 
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Only by its use upon a share-and-share-alike basis by 
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