Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-26
A Woman's Room.

Girls, what sort of a room have you?
Would you like the man you want to
marry to look into your room just as it
is today? Would you be willing to sub
ject your character to that keen test in
the eyes of a discerning masculine?
For woman's room is a revelation of
herself
One night tine poet Longfelow was Il
guest at the house of Judge Potter in
Portland, Nc. In the absence Of a
daughter of the house. and the presence
Of many guests TO be provided for, he
was given this absent daughters room
as sleeping chamber The young man,
not then -. was charmed by the room.
Tie had never seen the girl. but he inn
medlately formed a conception of her
character and her tastes, from the choice
and the arrangement of things in that
room. The very disposition Of the rugs,
the arrangement OF the articles on the
bureau, the pictures on the wall-indeed,
the entire atmosphere of the apartment
seemed 10 breathe Of Il personality OF
gentle womanly refinement and attract
i've qualities
To satisfy himself that his conclusion
was correct. Longtelow made Il trip to
Portland again the following Sunday and
attended churCn where he knew he
friend Of the writer that he knew her
as soon as she entered the church She
exactly httod mat room And, to make
u pleasant ending to a true story. she
was Mary Potter. who afterwards be
came the poets first wife.
One would like to know just what
Mary Potter had in that room. But one
thing is certain: II was not the elegance
ana cost of its furnishings which SO ac-
Gurately told its owners character.
There is many an apartment with rich
rugs on the floor. and handsome silver
on the toilet table, and every luxury
that wealth can buy, which yet tells not
one thing about its occupant except that
she has money to spend.
Here is another room, cluttcred with
kecpSakeS -mementoeS of dances and
enchres and plays and 1irtations Pos
teFs and pictures of popular actresses
cover the wall. \ row of young gentle
men III all stages of collar altitude and
mar longitude line the mirror and smirk
Up At You from the back of the bureau.
looks there arc none, except a light
novel tossed on the table when this gay
grille finished it at | a. in.
Turn thoughtful man loose in that
room and he would know i'm an instant
mat Ms unseen owner Is pretty, popular
say, devoted to pleasure. not fond Of
5hinking, and without those resources in
halpy in herself He would know her
10 he the average, thoughtless. fun-loving
Siri. so exactly like fifty other girls Of
IlS acquaintance that it wouldn't he
worth while to make another trip to
fnget her
Here is still another room. whose Turn
l>nings are in quiet good taste; its cur
'aIhN aud covers immaculate; its toilet
articles eXquiSitely kept nothing SUI
lIeFhCuuS. but every article dainty re-
med and womanly. All this the thought
Z i man sees and draws his own conclu-
SlonS. But there is more Those rwo
nor expensive, but copies Of the very
heSt-tcA him she is girl of cultivated
tastes. That little shelf Of well-worn
books tells him. by every title. that she
ENJOYS the companion snip Of the nob.est
md highest minds The fern bail hauy-
ing IN 4 sunny window speaks Of a
love aud care for the beautiful. The
sewing basket with its biz Of feminine