Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-05-19

for the reception of his other clothes
For the visitor of two weeks or more a
chiffonier should be added TO the bureau,
In the closet there should be hangers
for coats. shoe bags fer shoes and a
| laundry bag for soiled linen. On the bu-
reau there should be a well stocked pin
cushion, receptacle for combines. a box
of hairpins. a hand glass and nail file.
Some Of these things seem unnecessary,
as most people are supplied with them.
or should be. but it frequently happens
that in packing small things are forgot
ten, and il is always unpleasant to have
TO ask ones hostess for them.
A couch should be in every guest
room, with a quilt of some sort on it to
throw over one when lying down. and
this will serve as an additional covering
for the bed in very cold weather. The
question of bed covering is always an
individual one; no one can assume safe
ly how much or how little will be want
ed. and for that reason it is we'll TO be
on the safe side and provide enough. 1t
is the same with pillows. Many people
require more than one. and many people
are in the habit of sleeping on hair pill
lows; therefore it is a good plan to have
both kinds.
The dressing of the guest room bed
often puzzles the touseKeeper. A bed
that is more or less formal is to be pre-
ferred to one that is simply made with
the usual bedSpread, etc, for guest al
ways spends more or less time in his
room and it is in better taste to have the
bed coverings of cretonne OF whatever
material has been used fer the draperies
i'll the room.
With such bed covering a round hard
bolster is used, covered with the same
material, and many of them are provid-
ed with spaces for the keeping of the
pillows during the daytime. This is all
very well provided the pillows are not
kept in it during the time the room is
unoccupied Always after a guest has
left the pillows should have Il good air.
ing and be kept in an airy place when
not in use.
A table with a candlestick and candle
on it, box of matches in plain view a
work basket with black and white cot
ton and silk. some hooks and eyes. nee
dies and a thimble, a pair of scissors
all these things are great helps TO the
thorough enjoyment of a visit. The at
tractiveneSs of a guest room is made up
of trifies some of them hardly worth
mentioning. but they are the trihes that
go to make perfection not alone of COM
| fort but also of the enjoyment of the
guest while within our gates.
Some people feel the lack of these
| trifiing things to such an extent that
without them the whole visit is spoiled.
The welcome that is expressed in the
thought that supplies for the guest ev-
cry little comfort goes further toward
making him feel at home than any ex-
preston of it in words.
Probably those who fail in the matter
of making their guests comfortable are
those who seldom visit. No one who is
accustomed to visiting can fail to appre-
ciate the marked difference between the
guest room that is well supplied with the
small comforts of life and the one where
! they are entirely forgotten Even few
! flowers can breathe a welcome that no
spoken word can give and a remem-
brance of the idiosyncracies of one
guest makes him at once a member of
the family which is what he should be
while under its roofree.-New York sun.