Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07

, that is the fashion of using bed rooms dur
| ing perceptions, and allowing all kinds of
| wraps that have been journeying in street
cars and have tarried in badly ventilated
| shops to be placed our beds. If it has
| to be done have large spreads to put over
| pillows and ALL and tuck them in thorough
| ~, and after the party is over put them i'm
mediately into the wash
| The acme of bed room hygiene is reached
| when the bed never is made until ready for
| its nightly use. In this case it is left lying
| open to the tight and air, while the clothes
are arranged neatly on a rack made for
| the purpose. Over the clothes is thrown
! cheesecloth to prevent accommodations of
| dusI.
If Plaster Walls
Have become cracked 1t is a good plan to
| cover them with something stronger than
ordinary paper, and various kinds of bur
lap may be chosen for this purpose.
Unfinished burlap may be applied even to
| rough plaster by the use of a thin coat Of
| giue sizing the plaster, to which the
burlap may be applied with stiff -four paste.
The edges should butt or overlap.
| The applied burlap may then be painted
any preferred color, even kasomned,
| and excellent decorative effects may be pro-
| duced by choosing a simple stencil pattern,
| a scroll Greek key which the house dec
| ortors may apply in a darker tint around
| the door and window castings beneath the
| cornice holdings and down each side Of
the angles at the corners Of the room.
| For the amateur there are books which
| give tables to hep in the measurement
| Of rooms, and a description of necessary
| tools, as well methods of work to be ap
| piled by the worker
| Papers are of two sorts, the machine and
the hand painted. The former are stamped
i tt,--r -
paper as it rolls out from the machine. The
hand-painted designs are applied by blocks
| hama manipulated, and some of the best de-
| signs are printed for the first season in
| this Way, and year or two later brought
| out by machine process.
| To distinguish the two kinds. which vary
| greatly in price. observe the end of the roll
| In hand painted papers the design is put on
! each roll separately, and starts about an
inch from the end, leaving blank space Of
| clear paper.
| BY the machine process thousands of
| pieces of the same pattern are printed at
once and cut into required lengths, leaving
a continuous pattern from end to end of
| the roll.
The Shelves
| OF the linen closet should be washed occa-
| sionaliy with a solution of bchloride. If
| liked, sachets made Of cheesecloth and
| filed with dry sprays Of lavender to lie
among the piles of linen; but these are
more easily replenished in the fall with the
summers growth of the herb.
| The shelves, washed and covered with
white papers, are made ready for use If
they have been built in compartments, so
much the better. II not, it will be found
convenient to assign places for each set
of bedding, designated by name or num-
Der, on a written slip of paper and pasted
at the back of the shelf
AS freshly Numbered linen is brought up
it should be laid at the bottom Of the pile
! to assure even distribution of wear and
| tear 1t Is said that the yearly purchase
of one sheet and a pair of pillow cases for
each bed Will offset the destruction of wear
and insure a constant supply of linen in
good repair; provided, of course the linen
| is cotton, it is in most households.
OF towels, six of each sort should be
| bought yearly. In the more lavishly con-
Quoted households, where guests are fire.
| quent or continuous, the supply will vary
much, sometimes running numerically wei
up into the hundreds. A few reserved SETS
| it goes without saying, should be kept On
| hand In every house.
1t will be found convenient to store bed
ding in constant use on open shelves in
closed by doors. drawers being used for
the reserve supply. high shelf in the
| of emergency medicines, absorbent cotton
| cheesecloth, rolls of clean old linen, steri-
| liked by an hours boiling, and kept free
from dust. This arrangement is more con-
! venient in emergency than the small cup
| board suspended in the bathroom.
! One or two long drawers for laying gowns
| and trousers at full length, a space deep
| enough to hang waists and coats from
hooks at the top, and room for hat boxes
| VIII be found desirable. A shelf may be
| devoted to storing clean boxes, wrapping
paper, two or three different kinds Of twirfe
! and rubber bands