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8:30. Tidying up 
with a broom from 
the Broom Closet 
7:30. Breakfast in a 
“ Pulmanook” 
four Day 
in a 
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This stand shows an interesting appli¬ 
cation of the bamboo motif done in 
low relief 
Chinese Furniture for American Rooms 
(Continued from page 81) 
satisfying sense of balance to the room. 
The arrangement of furniture varies 
to some degree in the better homes, 
tea houses and palaces, but the same 
general scheme prevails. Chairs are 
placed against the walls in pairs, or 
fours, with a high stand for the tea 
cosy, set at regular intervals. For 
meals, a round or square table in the 
center of the room is used, the diners 
generally sitting on stools. Many of 
these tables have marble tops for the 
purpose of cleanliness. Against one of 
the side or end walls a long altar table 
is placed on which is arranged a five- 
piece altar set, or the fruits of lon¬ 
gevity on a large plate, with a pair of 
flower vases. This fruit, either fresh 
or in Canton enamel, is always used 
during the New Year’s celebration. 
Screens of rigid forms, framing either 
embroideries or paintings, are fre¬ 
quently seen. Ostentation in personal 
belongings is frowned upon in China, 
and the native collector keeps his 
treasures stored in a fireproof godown 
where they are displayed only to other 
In the splat of this chair 
is an elaboration of the 
bat and gong motifs 
An old tabouret to which 
can be traced the origin 
of the Whistler molding 
collectors of discrimination and knowl¬ 
edge. As a result there is never a 
multiplicity of art objects displayed as 
in western homes. 
Chinese beds in the wealthier homes 
are made with four posts, a carved 
grille on the front and the top of a 
design somewhat akin to that of the 
windows. No mattresses are used, the 
bottom of the bed being covered with a 
finely woven split rattan or bamboo. 
Foreigners who have slept on them, 
after a few nights find them more rest¬ 
ful than our mattresses. These beds 
are also used by opium smokers, a low 
tabouret placed in the center at the 
back holding the lamp or smoking 
utensils. 
Large wardrobes are used for the 
storage of clothes. Some, seldom seen 
outside the country, are made with a 
smaller wardrobe resting upon a larger 
one after the style of the English chest- 
on-chest. 
Floor coverings are seldom used in 
dwellings, while the Chinese rugs now 
so common in the American market 
are only to be found in temples and 
palaces of the northern provinces. To 
the great mass of Chinese, rugs are 
absolutely unknown. 
Little information is available on the 
history of Chinese furniture, but paint¬ 
ings of hundreds of years ago show the 
same general types as are in use today, 
—types and materials varying with the 
locality. 
In South China the hard teakwood 
invariably is used; in the valley of the 
Yangtze a softer and lighter species is 
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