The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-04
THE DAUGHTERS ROOM.
Mary Lowe Dickinson Tells How 1t
Should Be Furnished.

~ GREAT many papers are written
nowadays with regard to the decor
alton Of the home and especially
of the girls room. She is told now
to make curtains. divans. CUSHIONS lures
pillow shams and bed quilts; how 10 as
pose OF knots OF ribbon and now 10 cover
her toilet table with bright trifies that
make IL seem luxurious as possible bul
the question of how to take care OF the
room after she has adorned IL Is oiteh teit
to the individual perception OF neat. ess
and order; and the Individual perception
we are sorry 10 say, does not always sue
coed In keeping the room in an ideal state
We once visited an elegant home in
Paris in which the bed chambers were
gorgeous with hangings of damask and
velvet and all the belongings were paia-
tial in their exquisite beauty. Opening a
door from one of these bedrooms, the mis-
tress ushered us into a room whose walls
were covered with paper OF a simple,
bright pattern There was not picture
ON the wall Above spotless white quilt.
on a plain little bedstead. lay pillow
which had no adornment except that CIV
en- II by the hands OF the laundress. Upon
the bureau were brush and comb, sim
pie pin cushion without bows OF lace, and
such other articles as We're essential and
could be used every day. From this room
opened a bath room. equally simple and
plain. At the window there was only a
common, soft-tinted shade, but the win
dow itself was wide open and the sunlight
swept across the floor, bare at every point
except before the bed, where It was COW
cred by a fur rug. There We're no orna-
ments on the mantelpiece and no draper
les TO gather and hold the dust.
In answer to my look of surprise the
owner said: Such a room as this had
when 1 was a little country girl in my
fathers home on the farm. II was clean
and white as a convent cell l can seem
| TO breathe in IL. The other rooms are made
as modern taste and circumstances re-
quire them to be, but this is the place
| where l come to pray and to rest and
| sleep."
! This brings me to say that the very first
| essential for girls room Is not decora-
| ton. but perfect purity and cleanliness.
| There should be absolutely nothing
| crowded into the corners of the
closet or tucked away under the bed.
| Every girl should take some leisure hour
| and slft out of the room all the things
| that are not necessary to the daily life,
/ Soiled bed linen Is none the cleaner for
| being hidden under a lace Counterpart OF
/ embroidered pillow shams, Avoid, II pos
| sibe a carpet upon the sleeping room, II
gathers lint and dust If the floor must
/ be covered let IL be with mating, or with
| rugs that can be easily lifted. so that the
floor may be wiped regularly and KEEP,
| thoroughly free from dust
| Have your sleeping room. IL possible, q
| yourself. The habit of putting two sisters
into the same bed is now followed only II
| cases OF necessity on account OF lack oil
| room. Have no hangings over your bed
| Let nothing interfere with the pure light
| OF heaven
l II you have three times the undercloth.
| ing that you can use during a season
select from II enough TO meet the ordin
airy changes. Keep also at hand one SCI
| that may be needed for more special oc
| casions This will be quite enough 10 oc
cupy the lower drawer in your bureau OF
| dressing case. Arrange the underclothins
so that articles of the same kind shall oc
cupy the same place the whole season
| through.
IL the habit of keeping garments In per
feet order Is acquired. the beauty OF tina
| order goes all through the after life. Hav,
/ enough. not too much: no overcrowde,
drawers. or closets with six garments oi
one nail; no crammed boxes or stuffy
crowded corners, no dirt or darkness o
disorder.
When these foundations are right. per
haps we may talk of decorations. Here i
a hint III To the way the true decoration
should begin. Have one place In YOU
bed room, one little table or shelf 10
your Bible and your books OF devotion
: Keep there, In n tiny vase or cup a fowe
or cluster of flowers, violets today, but