46 
House & Garden 
FURNITURE FOR A 
BACHELOR’S ROOM 
With Some Notes on What Men Like 
\ 
ETHEL DAVIS SEAL 
T HERE is a bachelor at our house, 
and through his half-open door, pass¬ 
ers-by glimpse cool, gray, pictureless 
•walls with their buff-gold sconce accents, 
flat gray-blue hangings pushed well apart 
at the southern windows that welcome the 
streaming sun, which falls in pools of rose 
color on the gay Persian rugs aslant on 
the dark floor. Through the door, too, is 
seen the mysterious brown of old furniture. 
A bureau desk of solid mahogany polished 
to a soft glow is on one side of the fire¬ 
place; on the other, an antique chest re¬ 
moved out of the class of a clothes-press 
by the pale brass samovar set on its top 
and flanked by two of those turquoise- 
green lined Japanese bowls. 
There is evidence of week-end tea serv¬ 
ing found in the presence of the tip table, 
and the larger drop-leaf one. On a far 
The walls are paneled with molding and the book shelves inset. Venetian blinds are 
used. The Chippendale mahogany library table, used for a desk, costs $110. The■ 
Windsor chair, $10 
Mahogany day bed, $35; box spring and mattress extra. 
Mahogany bureau, $108. Semi-Morris chair, $45. 
Curtains and bed cover of blue and gray fabric 
Wing chair, $39.50. 
Drop leaf table, ma¬ 
hogany, $50 
shelf is the glint of a 
kettle, and, if it’s Sun¬ 
day, you may be asked 
in for tea, which will be 
served, with a dispatch 
born of long practice, in 
a cup lined with white. 
Your little brown cakes 
will be fetched from the 
closet, whose shelves, 
edged with Chinese red, 
hold their burden of 
brass trays, bowls, tea 
caddies and quaint white- 
lined blue cups in a row. On shelves lower, 
you will see books, fat and thin; French, Rus¬ 
sian and English; scientific, technical, roman¬ 
tic, placed side by side, and evidencing hard 
study and serious work. 
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