The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-29
AOMEL|KE ROOM OF
The COLLEGE GIRL
Ingenious Contrivances Enable
Her to Make it Decidedly
Comfortable.
HARMONY OF HER SCHEME
Sense of Proportion and Fitness Is Ev
idenced in Everything-HoW the
College Girl Expresses Her
self in Furniture.

New York Tribune: One Of the finest
qualities in the world is balance-the
sense of proportion and harmony. Like
many another fine trait, it is evolved
only through a long process of survival
n selection, and a distinct phase in
the evolution of a college girl is the
varying taste She displays in her room.
In most Of the Women's colleges GER
tain articles of furniture are provided;
but in the individual details, which
give the cachet to a room, are left to
the student herself. Here she expresses
herself. In he room Of her neighbor
is another self-expression perhaps dia-
metrically different. One acts upon
the other. Thus, the individualistic at
t1tude, justly emphasized, leads to an
understanding of others and leads
away from the adoption of ready-made
standards, Of facile, commonplace
view.
Undoubtedly the average standard
Of taste among the students Is higher
than even a few years ago." says the
president of a foremost college for
women. There is an unconscious but
decided improvement in TASTE" 1t Is
true. One does not see in college dor
mltory rooms today so manyposter dec
orations, such multitudes Of photo
graphs II profusion Of parti-colored
pillows as Of yore. The dominant pic
lures are less often copies of the pro-
phet Hosea and BodenhauSer Madonna.
The pillows and decorations are more
often keyed to a tone Of harmony.
Couch and Cot.
In one respect the college girls excels
In her ingenious c~ontrivances for more
space and for comfortable corners
Given a single room by herself, she will
Danish the upright bed and cheerfully
sleep on a cot, which by day is an in
wiling, pillowed ouch. If she has one
Of the modern commodes, built like the
old-time washstand, this she will use
for a tea table, and into her closet put
the toilet articles. Possibly she keeps
a trunk In her room, which, cushioned
and beruf1ied, forms a window seat. If
two students are assigned to q double
room suite, one room becOmeS by COM
mon consent the study and parlor and
the other the sleeping roonl-so heart
lily In every case does the student ap-
preciate a place Of her own, attractive
as may be. for her girl visitors, and ir-
respective Of the general dormitory
parlors.
But the girls room itself tells the
story better than talking about it.
Take a typical single room in an old
fashioned dormitory. It has three win
dows, white muslin curtain draped,
safely distant from all possibilities Of
I4ACs ~ a d 1llCploSCy IN d oOuOlS-
shelved mantel for the home-making
penates, a low, curtained bookcase with
ample shelves, a chiffonier, center table,
writing desk and couch, suffice for any
ordinary number Of visitors-then, too,
college girls never despise sitting on the
floor. The walls of this room are of
light, dull red cartridge paper, the dark
red wood floor has a good mode colored
n red brown rug; table cover, book
case curtain, couch and pillows
h~armonize; and-remarkable point-on
the same background Of wall there is
not one picture which would fail to
pass the criterion Of good taste.
Love for Pictures.
For large pictures there are q beau
tiful Sistine Madonna carbon, an Ok
ford etching and one Of old Gloucester
wharves. a cool green water color and
two charming Japanese pictures in
color; hung in suitable juxtaposition
to these, but nowhere crowded, a few
smaller framed Photographers Baron
Costine, a Titan st. Christopher-none
of the conventional subjects-and on
the upper shelf of the mantel a row of
narrow. black-framed platinum photo
graphs, souvenirs of travel. For brio
a-brac, a pair Of brass candlesticks, a
rare plate, an Indian basket, a dainty
clock and just a few vases-which al
ways hold some bit or other of flowers.
And for greenness. a rubber plant, with
a possibly half-conscious adoption Of
the maxim that a Boston maid always
has "a rubber plant as well as q Bos-
ton bag and a moral purpose The
room-of a college senior--is neither
large nor elegantly furnished, but is
is SO perfectly in keeping, its brass
andtrons, tongs and candlesticks give it
SO homelike a touch, that one carries
away an impression Of dainty charm
and real livablenes. This college girl
in her room furnishing has peer quick
50 recognize the passing Of the tea
table, and her. quondam visitor feels
like that the students college work is
undoubtedly better done without q run.