The Jersey City news., 1906-04-03
The GUEST ROOM
dow to Prepare It So That
the Occupant Will Find 1t
Well Worth Remembering
HOW TO BE NELL DRESSED
ADVENT OF SHORT SLEEVES
MAKES A PRETTY ARM DEsIR-
AIBLR POWER or THE COLOR
-wEIBN BUYING ENAMEL
FURNITURE.

FURNITURE.
OF course, first and foremost Ia the
guest room comes the necessity of a per-
sfectly considerable bed A strange bed is
enough to cause sleeplessness in many
people fer at least night or two, under
1.-THE most favorable circumstances, and it
lis the hostess's first duty to know that
the bed her guest is to occupy is as conn
Portable as care and intelligence can
make it.
No matter how simply furnished a
guest room may be. there should be in it
some sort of desk. amply supplied with
writing paper, ink. pens of all sorts.
stamps and blotters. The next thing is
the dresser or bureau. Who has not
started TO open bureau drawer in a
5guest room only to find it locked. or what
fs worse. filed with clothes belonging to
some one of the family. or else household
linen?
1 No matter how short time a guest is
ato remain. there should be space provid-
cd for the keeping of her clothes and
small things during the time she stays in
1.-THE house, and the failure to do this sim
pie act of hospitality frequently causes
great discomfort to a visitor. 4 dresser
with two small drawers to hold minor
ARTICLES, and one or two large drawers
,beneath for underwear, ETC., will be suf-
.fcient for the guest who is making a
short stay, while closet should be ready
for the reception of her old clothes. For
the visitor of two weeks or more chif-
fonier should be added to the bureau,
Gays the Philadelphia Telegraph.
In the closet there should be hangers
for coats, shoe bags for shoes and laun-
dry bag for soiled hisen On the bureau
there should be a well-stocked pin cush-
ION, a receptacle for combings, box of
hair-pins. hand glass and nail file.
rs most people are supplied with them,
,r should be. but it frequently happens
HAT in pacing small things are forgotten,
and it is always unpleasant to have to
lsk ones hostess for them.
A couch is nice thing to have in ev-
Fry guest room, with quilt of some sort
IN it to throw over one when lying down
ind this will serve as an additional COW
ring for The bed in very cold weather.
A table with candlestick and candle
N it, a box of matches in plain view;
esrk basket with black and white cotton
- silk, some hooks and eyes. needles
md a thimble, a pair of scissors all
hese things are great hsips to the thor
mgh enjoyment of visit. The attrae-
6yeness of guest room is made up of
rifles. some of them hardly worth mem
joining. but they are the tribes that go 30
make perfection not alone of comfort,
Int also of the enjoyment of the guest
fhiie within our gates.
The secret of being well dressed con-
kts in being suitably and becomingly
lther than fashionably dressed.
There is only one class of women who
sn afford to adopt the latest and most
kiking fashion--the wealthy woman
iho can discard 1t If it does not prove
booming or when she is tired Of it.
fWhen fashion DEGREES that big sleeves
eS~to be worn it is the young woman
fifth the least money who will have the
lsggest ones. which are consequently
bade Of the cheapest materials. She viii
gear them. too, irrespective of whether
Der figure be stout or thin.
The style that Is always safe to follow
j being one that will last the longest, is
Be one which suits your particular
Eysique. If you are stout, content your
liz with sleeves of modest size, and give
Ie wide girdle belt wide berth. II you
ave large hips. do rot necessarily have
lsxirt with shilrs or tucks, at the top,
thile on the contrary a thin fgure can
ford to wear these as well as a slightly
suehed waist long after both have gone
1T Of fashion.
The best-s.ressed woman is sometimes
exer ID fashion, and also never ont of it
here are two rocks on which women,
ho nalgh4 ofherwisez1e well-dfsssed. fre-
aently suffer shlpwreck; The one is the
aping pleanet the other q skirt shorter
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