March, 1911 
For bed-rooms, these “candle holders" 
and fabric shades make a delightful 
scheme, the character of the room being 
carried out ■ completely by using the same 
material for the shades and draperies, or 
if the draperies are too dark, using mate¬ 
rial to blend with the wall. 
A great many variatons of these shades 
can be worked out, for example, using 
Raja silk with bindings of galloon, and the 
lower edge can have in addition a finish 
of narrow gold lace. Such shades are 
quite handsome enough for libraries or 
halls. 
One should be careful, however, in us¬ 
ing dark materials, to line the shades with 
thin white muslin or china silk in order 
not to subdue the light too completely. 
Beware the Rocking Chair 
HY retain the rocking-chairs in the 
living room? They are nerve de¬ 
stroyers, trippers up of the unwary and 
spoilers of tempers. One of the famous 
New England hostesses of the last cen¬ 
tury kept a rocking-chair in her drawing 
room in which a new visitor was tactfully 
induced to sit. If she rocked she was 
never asked to the house again. This was 
extreme, perhaps, but we in our hearts 
agree with her, for a person swinging 
rapidly back and forth as she talks is, to 
say the least, a disconcerting sight, and 
to most of us a maddening one. We take 
morals for granted, but we insist upon 
manners. Rocking-chairs are rarely seen 
in any room but a bedroom, and the 
sooner they disappear entirely the better. 
For the Radiator. 
ROM Germany comes what is perhaps 
a distant cousin of the tiled stove so 
much in evidence over there. This new 
invention is a porcelain radiator cover 
which fits over it, hiding it completely. 
The greater part of the front and sides is 
panelled in openwork, forming a conven¬ 
tionalized design, while between these 
panels are colored flower decorations. A 
band of polished brass runs around the 
base and a small brass door at either side 
permits regulation of the heater. As por¬ 
celain is a good conductor the device facil¬ 
itates heat distribution. It is in good 
keeping in rooms where there is white 
woodwork, and the flower figures can be 
had in any color or pattern to harmonize 
with the wall decoration. The cover is 
especially valuable as an adjunct to the 
bathroom. 
A Convenient Bungalow Bathroom 
NE of the most satisfactory features 
of our bungalow bathroom is the 
boiler. The range, to which it belongs, is 
directly behind it on the kitchen side of 
the wall. This unusual arrangement was 
planned to provide heat in the bathroom, 
where we had none, and to get rid of it in 
the kitchen, where we had too much. The 
boiler heat provides warmth eight months 
in the year, and the remaining four 
months, when the heat would cause dis¬ 
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comfort, we use oil stoves in the kitchen. 
The space in the kitchen happened to be 
badly needed, while in the bathroom the 
corner could very well be spared. The 
boiler, so located, is often a help in drying 
small articles of clothing that would only 
be a bother around the kitchen range. On 
cold days in winter a small oil stove is 
used in addition. 
Next to the boiler is a medicine closet 
that practically occupies no space at all, 
for the closet upon which it backs can eas¬ 
ily spare the little room required for four 
shelves one foot wide and three feet long. 
In fact it adds to the convenience of the 
other closet, as the boards that enclose the 
back and top of the medicine shelves pro¬ 
vide a place for clothes hooks and a shelf 
on the other side. 
Space is still further economized by 
placing a nickel towel rod upon the closet 
door, and the enameled iron basin directly 
below it. Wall space is also saved by a 
half dozen nickel hooks on the inside of 
the bathroom door; these, with a small 
“hat tree,” give all the accommodations re¬ 
quired for the temporary disposal of cloth¬ 
ing. Light was admitted, from the bath¬ 
room window to a dark passage, by remov¬ 
ing the uppermost of the five horizontal 
panels in the door and replacing it with a 
pane of glass. A thin curtain made the 
door more ornamental, without interfering 
with the light. 
Hanging shelves hold candle, matches 
and other small conveniences. A clock 
enables the dresser to keep his eye on train 
time. A dressing-table was made by saw¬ 
ing off a third of a round-topped table, to 
make it occupy less space and to sit 
square against the wall. A dummy tea 
chest, such as is used for exhibition in a 
grocery window, painted, is used either as 
a seat, when dressing, or as a foot stool, 
to reach articles on the upper shelf of the 
medicine closet. 
The high window, placed above the 
bathtub, is twenty inches square and 
swings inward. A netting screen is kept 
in this window the year round; this with 
the extra broad sill provides a good place 
for drying brushes and sponges. The cur¬ 
tain is arranged with a view to screening 
and lighting at the same time. A full, 
straight curtain, gathered top and bottom 
on two pieces of picture wire, extends only 
three-quarters of the window space, leav¬ 
ing a four-inch strip of uncurtained glass 
at the top to admit more light. The space 
just below the window is utilized for a 
nickel towel rod. 
The bathtub is enameled iron with a roll 
rim and the wall around it is protected 
from spattering by a strip of bordered 
shelf oilcloth. Wall space, over the head 
of the tub, otherwise useless, holds a wide 
towel rod for the bath mat. Besides the 
usual plumbing and piping, this little six 
by seven room contains, also, a half dozen 
other bathroom necessities, such as laun¬ 
dry basket and mirror. Both wall and 
floor space had to be well planned to ac¬ 
commodate all without inconvenience. 
A coat of aluminum paint greatly im¬ 
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A suggestion for that radiator problem—A 
cover of porcelain. The flower panels come 
in a variety of colors and designs 
proved the appearance of the boiler, the 
pipes (except the nickel ones) and the out¬ 
side of the bathtub. The walls are painted. 
The woodwork and floor are finished as 
in all the other rooms, cypress, waxed 
and varnished, for the former, and 
North Carolina pine, oiled, for the lat¬ 
ter. Inlaid linoleum, cut into mats, makes 
a most durable and satisfactory protec¬ 
tion for the floor. 
Although off the line of sewers and 
water supply, the plumbing is very con¬ 
veniently arranged by means of a cistern 
and cesspool. The kitchen pump fills a 
tank in the attic with very little effort, as 
there is only one flight to lift the water in 
this one-story bungalow. 
The place is protected in winter by a 
bank of earth around the foundation. 
This, made ornamental with rubble work, 
adds to the appearance of the house. 
A bungalow bathroom where space is at a 
premium. The boiler provides the heat 
necessary on cold mornings and leaves 
more room in the kitchen 
