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House 
& Garden 
THE WHITE BATHROOM and ITS COLOR CODE 
One Door to the Left of Godliness Lies that Room in Which Every Housewife 
Delights. Here Are Some Suggestions to Help Her 
MILDRED GAPEN BOWEN 
I F a housewife would “business manage” 
her bathroom she must see to it that it 
inspires orderliness. She must plan and equip 
it so well and furnish it so attractively that 
each member of the family will fold his towel 
neatly and rinse and spread forth his wash 
cloth on his own rod perforce. Indeed, he 
should feel ashamed to spoil the picture. 
An all white bathroom, the dull finish of 
white enameled fixtures setting forth glistening 
porcelain surfaces, and cretonne quaintly alive 
to its responsibility of picking up color tones 
in bath mats, towels, and kindred linens,— 
this is the ultra modern, the super bathroom. 
In summer, quite the pleasantest room in the 
house. In winter, a bath paradise, one door 
to the left of godliness. 
Every good housewife likes to spend money 
on the bathroom. 
A newly-wed housewife not long ago re¬ 
marked, “I was given thirty dollars on my 
birthday, and I spent every cent of it on things 
for the bathroom”. 
Not a difficult task, one might venture, since 
good equipment is not the least priced of house¬ 
hold commodities. However, well made bath¬ 
room articles are a luxurious economy. Their 
upkeep is swallowed by the original cost. 
Really extravagant equipment is that which 
breaks, bends, rusts, scratches, or loses directly 
its first trim finish. 
Many women, who do not feel in a position 
to outfit a bathroom completely in the best of 
the new white fixtures, buy one article at a 
time, collecting the entire set much as they 
have completed a dresser set of fine toilet arti¬ 
cles. In this way the cost of this delightful 
paraphernalia does not fall heavily at any one 
time. Inexpensive articles, purchased at the 
Ten Cent store, are used temporarily and dis¬ 
carded as each new, thoroughly good piece is 
added to the whole. 
Use the Best Fitments 
The best white fitments now obtainable are 
made of high brass, white enameled with a 
dull finish. These are rust proof and prac¬ 
tically chip proof. The tumblers, removable 
soap dishes, and glass shelves which accom¬ 
pany the fixtures are all of opaque white glass, 
and are very attractive. It is unnecessary to 
remind any housewife that it will not do to 
hang a damp towel or wash cloth on a steel 
hook, the enameled surface of which has been 
chipped. A brass base obviates this danger 
in the newest fitments and a series of thorough 
experiments has provided a smooth, enameled 
surface easily cleaned by soap and water and 
that “dean” of cleansers never found in pack¬ 
age form—elbow grease. White fixtures are, 
or course, the most sanitary of bathroom fur¬ 
nishings, as every dot or spot of soil is self 
charted for removal. The articles selected for 
illustration are also the newest in design, the 
most improved, and the most popular of all 
white bathroom items. 
The Color Code 
“None but the guest deserves the fairest of 
household linens” might be a household dic¬ 
tum. Because of its kindliness it will no 
doubt hold water until the end of time. What 
housewife, also, does not delight in directing 
a guest to a well-ordered bathroom, one in 
which good judgment shows to advantage with 
good taste? 
A true perspective on the average family 
bathroom, however, with its neat little group 
of “show” towels and its other little groups 
of the bread-and-butter variety, nowhere near 
so neat, should compel a broad smile. 
After all, why not invest a reasonable sum 
in the artistic development of the family and 
bring things nearer to a level. 
One mother, with ideas of her own about 
saving mother-tongue, has settled the matter 
in her particular household by adopting a color 
code in the bathroom. Fortunately for all no 
member of this group is color blind,—unless 
wilfully so. Between Father and five year old 
John, every tint has been requisitioned for 
stripes and patterns on towels, wash cloth, and 
bath mats. In order: Father has lavender; 
Mother, green; the two older girls, blue and 
yellow; the littlest girl, pink; and the afore¬ 
mentioned John, navy blue or Turkey red. 
Each individual has a stock of four bath towels, 
six hand towels, and six wash cloths. Emer¬ 
gency supplies and guest towels, face towels, 
and wash cloths are all pure white, and of 
extra fine quality, practically undecorated. The 
two older girls have added effective monograms 
to their quota of linens, although this is un¬ 
necessary for identification. 
The linen marts of the world have been 
searched for the colorful linens illustrated. 
They give evidence of the strong hold of stripes 
Fired, lettering in pink, 
blue, white or green has 
been emblazoned on these 
bathroom bottles. The 
shelf is opal glass with 
white enamel brass brack¬ 
ets and rail 
A white enameled bath 
room cabinet provides tw , 
small drawers at tof 
shelves for the weekl 
supply of linen and a bv, 
for soiled linen. Withou 
hand decorations, $ 15.50 
