Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-03


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The hostess should, IN furnishing her
house, lay Ia . number Of bath tuba
The tin oces, shaped HE hat. are
most convenient. fhsrs are alzo india
rubber portable baths which sre very
convenient II there y not bath
room belonging to every room this win
enable an Engtishnsn 60 take his tub"
as cold as &c pleases. or allow the Amer
lean 20 take the warmer sponge bath
which Americans generally prefer.
The house should also be well sup
Piled with lunch baskets for picnics
and for tho railway journey. These
come now cheap and well fitted up
with drinking cups. knives and forks.
and spoons, corkscrews sandwich boxes.
etc. These and great supply OF IN
breakable cups for the iawn-tennis
ground are very valuable
Also any number Of tin painted pals.
and small pitchers TO carry hot water,
several services Of plain tea things. and
japanese waters. on which 20 send tea
20 tho bedrooms. and in every room
should be placed table thoroughly fur
nished with writing materials and
with all the eonyeniences for writing.
sealing and posting letter.
Shaksspeare's bequest to his wife OF
his second best bed has passed with .
bit Of post-mortem uRgallantry which
has dimmed mis- fame as model hus-
band: but IL would to-day. that sec
ond best bed" be very handsome be-
quest. not only that il was Shakes
peare's but beeadse IL wSs doubtless
tester" for which there IS q craze. All
the old four-posters which our grand
IIas sent % the garret arc on their
way back again 20 the rnodal bedroom
WIKI ell our rage for yeuI1ation and
fresh air we no longer fear the bed
curtains which few years ago were
supposed 10 foster disease and death;
because the model bedroom can be now
furnished with an inlet ventilator for
admitting the fresh air from without
as well rs an outlet one for permitting
the egress OF the air. Each gas brack-
ct is provided with > pipe placed above
il and piercing the wall through which
the product of combustion is carried out
of the house. This Is late sanitary
improvement in London, and Is being
introduced in New York.
As for the bed curtains. they are hung
on rods with brass rings, no canopy on
top, SO that the curtains can be shaken
and busted freely. This is great i'm
provement ON the old upholstered top,
which recalls Dickens description of
Mrs Todgcr's boarding house, where at
the top of the stairs 1.-The odor of many
generations Of dinners had gathered
and had never been dispelled," 50 the
unpleasant feeling that perhaps whole
generations of slccpers had breathed
into tho Same upholstery overhead
used 70 haunt the walxeful in old English
inns to the numbering Of sleep.
There Is a growing admiration unfor-
tunately for tufted bedsteads- They
arc IN the long run neither clean nor
wholesome and not easily kept from
vermin; but they sre undeniably hand
some, and recall the imperial beds Of
state apartments, where kings and
queens are supposed to seek that repose
which comes 30 unwiningly to them,
but 30 readily to the ploughboy. These
upholstered tufted satin-eovered bed
steads should b fitted with . canopy,
and from This should hang baldachin
and side curtains Certain very beauti-
ful specimens of this regal srrsngement
bought In Italy ars In the Vanderbilt
palaces in New York. Opulent purchas-
crs can get copies at the great furnish
ing houses, but 1t is becoming difficult
to get tie real antiques Travellers In
Brittany find the most wonderful carved
bedstcads buih into tho wail, and are
always buying them Of tho astonished
Usher folk. who had no idea how valu-
able was their snokestained carved
oak.
But a. 20 the making up of the bed.
There are nowadays. clcanly springs
and hair mattresses piled high, In place
Of the old feather beds; and az 70 stiff,
white bedcovers, pillow slips and shams,
false sheets and valcnciennes trim
clings. mouogramrned and RULED finer
!cs, there Ia = truce. They were SO
sippery. 80 troublesome and so false
withal. that the beds that have known
hem shall know them no more forever.
They had always TO be unpinned and
snhooked before the sleeper could enter
his bed: and they were the torment Of
ihc housemaid. They entsiied degree
IF washing and ironing which was end
cSs. and yet many young housekeeper
thought them Indispensable. That idea
sas gone out completely. The bed now
S made UP with ia fresh linen sheets,
Is clean blankets and its Marscilles
mil. with square or long pillows, as
.he sleeper fancics, WITH bolster in
slain linen sheath. Then over the
whole is thrown light lace cover lined
With Liberty silk. This may be as ex-
ssnsive or "a cheap as the owner
,leascs. Spreads Of satin might be
,sed. covered with Chinese embroidery,
Ut with patchwork designs now so
..shionable. Ore light and easily aired
irnpcry succeeds the four or five pieces
81 unmanareasic linen. II the bed Is
,este- srd the crrtsins Of silk or chintz.
he Woodworking should match in tint.
and IN very pretty bedroom the walls
should be covered with chintx or silk
TIE modern highly glazed tile paper
or walls and ceiling Is an admirable
sovcring. as il refuses 20 harbor dirt
The housemaid's brush can well keepit
rvcet and clean Wall papers are 50
sretty and 50 exquisite In design (anf