The San Francisco call., 1899-09-24
ID EDROOMS, particularly q young
lSN girls, are usually crowded with
w useless things. Cheap pictures
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I'D EDROOMSs particularly O young
N girls, are usually crowded with
~ useless things Cheap pictures
cover the walls, photographs
stand on every and anything; gas
fixtures hold a maze of strings and from
them dangle programmes, dance cards,
bottles, any old sort of souvenir, neck
ties and perhaps an old shoe the last
summers best fellow wore. Don't do it..
They catch dirt. If they are positively
necessary for your happiness store them
away in boxes; you can take them out
and moon over them as much as you
choose, but don't litter up your room
Have a den, put them all in it--but keep
them out of the room in which you sleep
Bedrooms should be restful in every de-
tail. There you sleep, there you are
when i'll and there you study and think.
When choosing the paper remember the
hospital part" Designs that look like
writhing sea serpents when one has fever,
or like snails and distorted faces, those
that convey action should never be in
a bedroom. Plain paper in light colors
or tinted walls are best for this room,
Then the pictures. Imagine obtaining
the sought-for restful look with the Bat.
tie Of Waterloo" or the blowing oP OF
the Maine" hanging on the wall, or Sim
ply to Thy Cross 1 Cling" with a stormy
ocean, a rock and woman graceiully
hanging on the cross. Choose something
landscaDe quiet water scenes, anything
pleasing and comforting. A picture 10
make YOU sleepy and not keep you awake
wondering how that woman got OUT INTO
the middle of the ocean and then dream
all night you were in her place.
Put mating on the floor It IS easier
TO keep clean and more nea'cnrta 1ei a
The windows. changing them often. For
fl1rnittlre the enamel or brass PED, q Qesh,
dresser and dressing table rev chaIIS
If the room IS Ol0-
fashioned with four-pOst bedSteaCS, keep
10 the old-fashOned look of things. Sc
quaint patterned chlntz anu u1lI-lS ~ Loi ~ IN
curtains or sheer white ones next 70 VIII
dow and inner ones of beruffied, dainty
colored dimity, with 4 trailing ROSEBUD
design On the walls have foWered paper
pain paper is out of place in an old
fashioned room-dark or ight, as pre-
ferred The broad striped effects are very
pretty though for an ordinary room pale
yellow, pale robins esq blue ana Pom
peiian red are the best. These colors
give apparent space and furnish good
BACKGROUND for pictures. As for pictures,
two or three artistically framed are n
thousand times better than forty cheap
ones The bed next. A bed Is either the
most ornamental thing in the room or the
uGliest. It's all matter OF covering.
And though covered, beds should not be
overdressed. Dense canopies are decld,
edly poor taste, the bed loses Its restful
look appearing heavy and uninviting. In
cities where SCOT and dirt creep In ar
tight windows the whole bed, except the
posts ana DdCh. SHOulQ DG tONN ~
ers made Of chintz and dimity with deep
full ruffies to reach TO the floor, smooth
" laid over the pillows and round
bolster covered with the same material
laid on top of the pillows, make beds
very pretty. All colors and all sorts Of
designs are displayed in the shops I'll II
YOU prefer a pure white bed and are Will
ing to pay for the laundry bills such a
luxury demands, make or buy a spread
white linen with Mexican drawn work;
shams are out of date; rolls are not
pretty in white so have a straight piece
wide enough TO cover the pillows, which
are fat on the bed, and fall down to meet
the spread, made with a deeper border
stands high from the floor make Ike, val, al
a tame and fasten securely to the bed. A
soft, fluffy look is obtained and, best Of
posite side of the room can't see the dust
which some time or other will! collect
under the bed OF course, good house
keepers never-but then there. might hap
pen to be q dust storm. Such things do
happen. ,
Furnish a bedroom, from :, a hygteinic
standpoint Have washable things strive
for comfort and the reStful look.