12 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
GRANDE MAISON DE BLANC 
538 - 540 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK 
MAGNOLIA, MASS. 
The Trousseau House of America 
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE LINEN CHEST 
HE linens for the home are among (4 Vy, $f white cloth. Wash-cloths should 
the most interesting purchases match the bath-mat and towels in 
which the prospective bride makes marking and color. 
whether the trousseau be a modest The face towels, either hemstitched 
one, or whether it be purchased with or hand-scalloped, and. with simple 
the needs of a large establishment 1 monograms, should match. the guest 
view. In either case she can not make LOW ae as illustrated at the top a the 
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a mistake in choosing plain, sheer page. In addition to such towels as 
bedspreads with elaborate monograms, 
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and bureau, dressing-table, and chif- should be more elaborate towels of 
fonier covers to match the spreads. lace, embroidery, or drawn-work. 
However, elaborate scarfs of lace and ; 
erbroidery are frequently placed un- 
der glass on bureaus, and in many 
cases the furniture is so shaped that it 
is necessary to have the covers made 
in «pecial styles and designs to match. 
The bed linens for general use may 
eee of plain hemstitched under Like large towel, like gues: towel, 
is one rule of furnishings; $3.50 
and $1.75, respectively, without 
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1eets, fancy scalloped top sheets, and 
Mee -cases with handsome mono- 
grams. The guest-room sets of bed 
linen are usually of beautiful embroid- 
ery and lace with wide embroidered 
sections at the top to turn back, and 
the quilts should be marked 
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ed; the color of the quilts 
aq* wells as .that ‘of. the 
blankets should match the 
draperies of the roon. 
THE ORDER OF THE BATH 
Charming things may be 
had for the bathroo'n. Soft 
white bath-rats, or mats 
with colored borders are 
-arked, as shown in. the 
Wustration at the bottom 
of the page with a. large 
colored rronogram woven 
in the ‘~~at. Tthe bath towels 
may be either all white or 
white with colored: stripes } 
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Hemstitched towel at the top, $18 
a dozen; scalloped towel, $3.50 
each; lower towel $16.50 a dozen. 
Monograms extra 
For the dining-table. plain satin- 
striped damask is very much in favor 
at present for both elaborate and 
simple dinners. Small simple lace 
cloths with napkins, centerpieces, and 
s‘gns euch as those of the VT xxzxz<cvzzzz;,vxev0ccvzv”eczecceczveccszo3UlUer ZZ 
two silk striped ones shown ; doilies to match may be selected for 
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| towels are also marked with *wels, aud Birxpedsito ‘sega the Shee eee with a long runner and single, oblong 
i monograms, the colored ° a bathemat: asic #2805 poh $2.50 plate doilies large enough for each 
i ones with colored ‘nono- each.) Monogratis7 22 caCnarie service without the separate doilies, 
grams embroidered are very smart just now and are very 
on a set-on piece effective on a long, narrow table. 
