The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-03
GUEST CHAMBER COMFORTS.
POINTS ABOUT A ROOM OFTEN
FURNISHED WRONGLY.
Little Ccnveniences ma Please the Guest
and Need Net Cost Much Mistake
Of the Pretty Guest Chamber -suE.
gestions for Making a stranger n Ease.

'sSh heNsfs y StTh1RtF " EhNt
During the last four months" said tn,
girl who has just come back to town, q
have made twelve visits: and in only tive
Of the twelve houses did / have a vast,
paper basket in my room.
I'm glad TO be at home. Another month
OF guest chambers would nave soureo
my disposition"
Many a guest might echo the plant
The ordinary guest room il as ingenious
an Illustration Of how not to make a friend
comfortable as the brain Of the average
housewife can devise.
Condemn the mistress of the house "a
move into her W guest room and the
chances are that she will pull IL TO pieces
and make IL over within a week. There
are various causes mt the root Of the guest
room evil.
Some families, not too we'll blessed with
this worlds goods, frankly advance the
theory that II Is the part OF wisdom to give
solid comfort TO the members OF the family
who occupy their rooms a possible se5
days out Of the year and to let the occa-
sional visitor get along az best she may.
There's something 70 be said for the
idea. Still, even II q motley array Of mis-
hoeCu tiih'ui h'Npo III ShtSb ioOib
from being attractive, there's no excuse
for not providing for the visitor the small
comforts that are a matter OF thought
rather than OF money expenditure.
For the advocates OF the pretty guest
chambers there isn't even the excuse Of
the greatest good to the greatest number
OF all the snares and pitfalls for the inno-
cent wayfarer the pretty guest chamber is
the worst.
The housewives idea seems to be that be-
cause the room Is not used steadily, and
because it's appurtenances will not have
very hard wear, she can, in that corner Of
the house, turn an exuberant fancy loose
and riot in impractical furnishing.
The average guest chamber Is own cousin
to the reception room furnished in bow
legged gilt furniture upholstered wit
pink tapestry, with Sevres bric-a-brao
and shivering marble statuettes.
The girl who walled for waste baskets
told a sad tale Of one Massachusetts, guest
room in which she slept for ten nights.
Il only slept there she said plaintively.
Il couldn't by any force OF will keep my
self in the place save when l was asleep
or making a hasty toilet.
1T was a small room but my hostess
was very proud Of 1t and had spent a lot
Of money on IL. The bed was a handsome
brass ana with a rose pink CANOPY and
~valence.
There was a round sham bolster covered
with pink and a pink bed cover and over
both bolster and cover was a beautiful
lace spread. / loathed hat bed with a
mighty loathing
There wasn't room for a couch in the
room. would go up stairs in the after
noon dead tired. sit down OF a very orna-
mental and uncomfortable white enamel
chair and stare at that beautiful bed until
| could have ripped it up for sheer rage
and thrown the fragments out Of tn e win
dow.
MANY a time I lay down on the pink and
white carpet with my head on a white
fur rug and dreamed of a heavenly land
where all the beds wore washable Mar
settles spreads and sham holsters and
pillow shams were things unknown.
There was a dainty escritoire in the
room but is wasn't stocked. The white
enamel dresser Wa beautiful with hand
painted silk boiling cloth and lace mats
and pin cushions.
.One wouldn't dream Of laying q com b
OONf on the INA VI VI -Ni'hilik a pun III tnf
cushion. There wasn't a longing chair
in the room nor a book nor a waste basket
There was a white fur rug in front Of
the washst and ! wouldn't have splashed
II for worlds.
Il used alw avs to spread my kimona
carefully over il when | took NV sponge
and 80 softly for fear I'd scatter water on
the pink and white carpet or the pink satin
NJ ripe Wallpaper.
Things were very jolly downstairs.
7 had a glorious good time during my visit
but ] didn't have a comfortable minute
in NV own room save when | wa asleep
II II all very well 10 make a guest room
attractive, hut the first effort Of the hostess
should IL Ia make IL livable.
More aud more, Amer CAM are adopting
the sensible English custom Of leaving
their guests to themselves for n part 81
each day. releasing them from the burden
~ hsing entertained and setting them
free 10 wander out ~ DOOR oT retreat 10
their own rDoms for rrpnseful loatng
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h out on. must make the visitors room a
place really re=lful
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