Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-01-18
GUEST ROOM COMFORT.
Average Boom Designed for Visitors
Would Sour Ones Dis
position

waste paper basket in my room.
I'm glad to be at home. Another
month Of guest chambers would have
seurcd my disposition.
Many guest might echo the plaint
Inc ordinary guest room is as Ingenious
an ILLUSTRATED Of now not to make q
friend comfortable as the brain of the
aFeraEe housewife can devise. Condemn
the mistress of the house TO nave iDto
her own guest room and the chances arc
mat she viii pull il to pieces and make
It over within week.
me average guest chamber is own
COUSIN 10 the reception room furnished In
hoW-iegged gu furniture upholstered
with pink tapestry, with Sevres lric-a
brac and shiyering marble statuettes.
the girl who walled for waste baskets
lold sad tale of one Massachusetts
guest room IN which she slept for ten
nights.
II only slept there" she said Main
tlVe4y. l couldn't By any force OF vii;
keep myself in the place save when
was asleep or making hasty toilet.
II was small room, but my hostess
Tree 10 wander out Of doors or retreat to
Ineir own rooms for reDOseful !oafing.
Inc idea IS rational, in order to carry ii
out one must make the visitors room Il
place really restful.
mat the bed must be comfortable goes
without saying. 1t should be n bed of
snowy white coyerlet and coul linen nil
lows, smelling Of lavender; a bed upon
which one can stretch tired limbs, or in
10 which one can creep without ceremony.
Put comfortable couch in the room
H possible, but even then let the bed look
ike bed. not like birthday cake
BESIDE the beds head put a small table,
ana on II matches, a caudle q tny tray
holding a covered water bottle or pitcher
and glass: If there isn't an electric light
WI n htrlh 1.
near the pillow, pur a good lamp on thu.
little table. Reading in bed is a PERM
cious habit, but the idea is to make ones
guest happy, not to reform him, and he
may be of the abandoned tribe who read
themselves to sleep.
Have dainty, serviceable wash covers
Tor dresser and oincushlon, and put out
all necessary toilet article in case the
guest may have forgotten something es-
Genital.
Let there be at least one mirror in
which woman can see something below
her waist line. If a cheyal glass isn't
possible, long mirror may be set in the
back OF door, at comparatively little ex-
pense.
If bath and dressing room are not
at hand. provide roomy washstand,
plenty Of towels, soap of two kinds.
scented and plain; almond meal, pumice
stone and good cold cream
- nut waiter bdS SnOuIu De III con-
yenient place. A duyet or light blanket
should be ready for use when the guest
wants TO lie down and throw something
over her, fo0tsto0l is an essential. a
waste paper basket is another. A wei
supplied writing desk is joy 10 the
was very proud of it and had spent
.ot Of money on it. The bed was Il
handsome brass affair with a rose pink
canopy and valance. There was round
sham bolster covered with pink and Il
pink bed cover and over both bolster and
cover was a beautiful race spread.
loathed that bed with Il mighty ioath-
ing:
There wasn't room for couch in
the room. | would go upstairs in the
afternoon dead tired, sit down ON very
ornamental 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 Assa window.
Many a time | lay down on the pink
and white carpet with my head ca
white fur rug and dreamed of heav-
emily land where all the beds were wash
able marsellcs spreads and sham boil
STEERS and pillow shams were things un
known.
There was Il dainty escritoire in the
room, but 1t wasn't stocked. The white
enamel dresser was beautiful with hand
painted silk boiling cloth and lace luats
laying comb down on the mat or stick
ing pin in the cushion. There wasn't
lounging chair in the room, nor Il book
nor waste basket
There was a white fur rug IA front
of the washstand. / wouldn have
spread my kimona carefully over it when
| took my sponge and so softly for fear
I'd scatter water on the pink and white
carpet or the pink satin stripe wallpaper
Things were very Jolly downstairs. /
had a glorious good umc during my Wis
It. but J didn't have Il comfortable min
ute in my own room save when | was
asleep
II IS al very well to make guest
room attractive. but the first effort of
the hostess should be to make it liyahle.
More and more Americans are adjoining
the sensible English custom OF leaving
their guests to Themselves for part Of
each day. releasing them from the burden
OF being entertained ana setting thpm
guests heart 4 werk basket fully
equipped for al! emergencies should he
supplied. On the table should be small
book rack full Of reada3c books.
Unless the literary tastes Of the guest
are We'll known. these books should be
carefully chosen and aimed ut all tastes
touch Of poetry fresh novel or two
book Of readable essays. one or two
old classics. Il hint of travel, biography
letters.
The carpet or mating should be iHcon-
sDicuous, low colored. the wallpaper rest
ful. tranguilizing. not running TO mad
dening geometrical combinations Ct liz
ures. Ii there are pictures, let them lie
unobtrusiye. SUCCESSORS Of serene
thoughts and peaceful dreams. Put 4
servieeable rug before the washstand and
provide capaciouS screen for purposes
of toilet and fas I que,ier OF night
draughts from open windows.
Give your guest at least one friendly
iounging chair, cushion or two. ana
YOUR Blessing Add the welcome tidiags
that breakfast is 4 movable feast, and
that guest will rise mp and CAD You
blessed Minneapolis Journal.
Otis skinner Tired OF sword Sticking
Parts.
Until this season Otis Skinner had
been identified for several years with
the sword-pIayiug heroes Of the romantic
drama. but if he carries out his present