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need not cost you much money, Dut ntted
UP in the modern, well-groomed style 1t
must be, if you value your reputation as
a housewife.
TlNre are so many little labor-saving
and comfort-giving points to which the
housewife should look strictly.
The porcelain tub is now the faverite.
1t is fresh and pretty to look at and 1t
is easily kept clean. There is only one
fault in these tubs-they are inclined to
be slippery and a bit dangerous. But
this difficulty is easily overcome. A strip
of India rubber mating can be provided.
This is thrown on the floor of the tub,
and standing on this it is impossible for
one to slip.
Many bathrooms now have hardwood
floors. Others are tiled and others nave
a floor covering of linoleum. The floor
must always be treated, of course, ike
the wall. Thing for walk may prove a
bit too expensive for the average woman's
income. but there are now a number ot
charming designs in tile wall paper WHICH
are decidedly effective.
Do not have a sloppy-looking, dampish
rug in the bathroom. Have a pretty rug
or carpet, and buy a couple of those fresh
looking, white bathmats and spread them
in the vicinity of the tub. They cost 40
cents, and they are certainly worth nav
ing. Flesh brushes and skin gloves are
other necessary articles. An old knitted
tame towel which has become too worn Tor
other use will make a pair OF these
gloves, which slip on over the hands ana
are excellent for starting the circulation
Keep your sponges sweet and clean. 10
do this. have open racks suspended ABOVE
the tub which will allow the moisture OF
the sponges to drip out. The newest RACKS
are of nickel and are very pretty, pul
the ordinary twisted wire cage Will 90
the work Just as well, enameled to a
pretty green or white, if the nickel Is TOO
expensive for your poeketbeok.
A little luxury that costs but a few
cents and requires the work OF only nail
an hour is wee bags filled with a mixture
of bran or oatmeal, orris root and some
good soap chopped up. The bags are OF
cheesecloth. Used in the bath 1t is e1-
cellert for the skin and creates a fefresn-
ing L rfume.
A convenient shelf is too often lacking
in the average bathroom. In fact two OF
three shelves are not at all too many, II
they are not of awkward size nor awk-
wardly placed. Have these shelves
enameled white If the prevailing tone OF
the room is white-and nothing could be
prettier.
There are any number of appliances
that the woman who has some money to
spend on her bathroom could indulge in
There is a soap-dish made to hang lnslae
from the edge of the tub, which is NOV
able to suit the convenience OF the lndl-i
vidual bather.
$1,000 ruand and
with braces which fit like little bridges
across the tub and which are of much
value to the invalid or infirm.
A straight board seat which goes across
the tub a foot or SO below the top costs
but 81, and a round wooden seat which
hangs from one side only calls for less
money.
Then there is a short hose attachahle
to the faucet with a sprinkler for spray
ing. It comes at ST.
But even if one cannot afford these new
ideas just as one cannot afford to spend
for a silver set for the wash-stand or
mugs, neutrality-suspicious., etc. of fine
French china, the bathroom may be won
derfully dainty nevertheless. A few dol
lars and a little extra thought will do it.
There's nothing one bit daintier In the
showing of goods for next summers wear
than the lace-striped Swisses. What's
more to the point, we know from sad ex-
p~erience that we're not likely to get just
what we set our heart upon unless we
take it while we may. In these lace
stripes the black and white combination
seems the favorite, though there are any
number of colored ones. Say we choose
white, there's a wide stripe with any
number of gay black polka dots, and
then the black insertion. Or one may
have white insertion. In fact, the mix
ture may be had to suit most any taste.
In the blue it's effective with either the
black dots and lace, or the white The
pink looks more festive with the black.
One fine feature of these is that they are
a trimming in themselves. If the stripes
are we'll managed, they will look fairly
elaborate, even though they be quite
plain
One can't say the title mousseline de
sole has been taken In vain, for the
cotton and silk stuff that has adopted
this well known name is superlatively
lovely. And it's the very spice of life
as to variety of sorts. The plain ones
are especially effective for party frocks
just now, their sheer, daintily tinted sur
faces being broken only by long, stately,
satin stripes in the same shade. There
are pink, blue, yellow, rose, and the
rest. And they're only forty cents. Those
Boosting floral designs are simply ire
sistible, for Flora's children dance round
these satiny columns with lovely effect.
Rose-tinted peoples made one anything
but somnfferous. Violets and white lilacs
another. Still another had the popular
ribbon effect in baby blue, just enough
apparent to be very fetching.
Our old loves, the organizes, are as
charming as ever. The latest wrinkle, by
the way, is to have them quite without
dressing" soft finish, in fact. Lots of
these have the satin stripe. and cost 40
cents. One in Napoleon blue has the sat
in and the sheer stripes, a a fourth Of
an inch wide, while all over the surface
is a dainty white figuring that looks ex-
actly like lace. 1t is exquisite. One In
a largish figure is all white and china
blue. Another in brownish yellow apd
violet is lovely on a white ground. "A
cream has a wide stripe with dull roses
clambering up 1t and a stripe hat looks
like black lace. An exquisite thing in
blue, a shade between baby and tur-
quoise, has bars of the satin stripe, and
in this lattice like work are covlv sfrpwn