The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-09-06
A Boys Room.


Let the girls monopolize the white ami
gold furniture, but give the boy "a room
which is more like a Darn than IL level
casket.' Let him be at the top of the
house, where he may dance jigs undis-
turbed and have room to stretch his
growing body. The cheap oak sets
which are sold are quite nice for a boy
who does not criticise carving or ex-
anime the grain or design too closely.
lie should have Il chiffonier and a wash
stand, with a pretty, fancy pitcher and
basin. The floor can be stained or GOV.
cred with mating and one of those Jap
anese rugs which come in such beauti-
full tints flung over it. The bed can be
/ painted white is always to be preferred.
! And it is always advisable to give a
boy a single bed, in which he will be
/ obliged to lie still and grow straight and
4 tall. rather than Il th~ree-quarter bed. i'm
which he can 90 to sleep cuddled into Il
| letter & or stretched out 50 as to form
la geometrical figure.
[ If he is one of the hospitable kind who
/ will have friends to visit him, and there
I is no other place in the house to store
away the visitor, the boy will have to
share his couch with them, of course.
| and in that case a ~three-quarter bed will
I be necessary. 1t is well to make Il
cover for the boys bed. Snowy pillows
and white quilts are kept immaculate
enough in the girls rooms; but the boy
will probably manage to smear both
I with ink. Il dusty coat. Il wet umbrella
or any of those dirty things which IL boy
always has ready to annihilate order
with at one fell swoop. \ cover of pink
ish-red cretOnne or colors which will
correspond to those Of the furniture or in
the rug, made to stretch across and
reach down to the ground. is ALWAYS
useful. and the boy stands much less in
awe of it than a prim. snowy bed, which
! would delight anyone else's eyes.
| The boy should have a desk and Il good-
sized table, which will encourage him to
observe some order with his belongings.
The reason very often that Il child does
I not keep ~"everything i'll it's place. is that
there has never been a place for every
thing, and if the boy has a table for all
the traps so dear to his heart and a desk
I where he can have his school books and
do his lessons and write to his grand
mother, he will probably grow into an
orderly, studious and dutiful youth
smaller things than these have civilized
/ people-although l do not believe every
| boy is Il savage. A set of book shelves.
which can be bought for 81, or which, if
ion and stain himself, should hold all
those wild, delightful romances, which
| make his hair stand OH end. A com
Portable room will keep him from run
ming away out West; let him read. The
boy should black his own shoes, so let
| him make Il large box which can be d.
vided into W. parts-one for the backing
apparatus and one for his shoes. These
boxes covered. with carpet and high
enough for IL seat can be bought, but the
expense is tritling to haye an ordinary
! box, and it will be quite as useful. and.
if covered with cretonne, quite pretty
An open fireplace is a great charm in q
boys room; there he can roast potatoes.
burn his love. letters, make taffy and
have roast-nut parties, and it is a health
full. cheerful and not expensive addition
to any room: Have pictures OH the wall
gay ones of bright colors or black and
white sketches, just as the boys taste
goes. He will choose them, and under
further direction place them p~rettily.
| Above all, give him liberty. let him give
little parties VI there; permit him to hang
d; skeleton on the chandelier if he wishes
to-, or to have a scarlet curtain on the
book shelves if he prefers it to your dainty
choice of pink and blue. Guide his taste,
but let him exercise his own individuality,
| A picture of Buffalo Bill charging on a
| wild mustang hanging over the foot of his
bed, where he can see it the first thing in
the morning, would be to some boys far
more beautiful than four feet high of
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