Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-28

II and taste Of syoung girl than the furnishing
4 4 of her own room, if she be a member of
| luxurious household, and provided with an en-
tire suite of her own, then the decoration and
arrangement of particular portion of the house.
1t might at first thought that the girl whose
suite is furnished by a fashionable decorator could
be expected to show her individual taste in her
apartment, but no matter how perfect the general
style of furnishing the effect will be stiff and unat
ractive if the girl herself has added nothing to the
suite after the decorator has finished it. Equally
unsuccessful will be the outcome, if in her choice
and placing of her additional touches souvenirs,
&c. she has failed to mind the general style
and coloring of the indeed, although the girl
who needs must choose her furnishings and that
with an eye to economy, may thoughtlessly consider
that her more deliberately housed chum has prob
lens to solve in the arrangement of her beautiful
apartments, it is a question whether her problem
is not really difficult than that of the girl who
plans the entire furnishing herself. For after all
there is task at which decorators themselves
fail more often than the harmonzing of period fur
nishing very elaborate formal furnishing of any
kind with what is homelke and comfortable in eff
feet With all their dantness and beauty the rooms
should look though lived in they will be lacking
in charm. For these elaborate the French
period styles fashion, but there great
latitude furnishing than there is today and what
style is personally desired may be selected
long as the designs of furniture and hangings
light and delicate and the colors equally dainty and
suitable to the boudoir of the jeune file
After ALL it is the girl who the furnishing of her
room in her own hands and is not dependent the
plans of decorator who gets most pleasure and profit
of it. There is unattractve that it may
not be vastly improved by small expenditure of
money, provided good taste be exercised, and none
which may not be made hideous by the most elaborate
furnishings if in their selection be not employed
Consequently, furnishing is serious business and
every girl who makes of it feel that she
has scored a triumph not always attained by those
older and wiser
No matter how modest is to be the sum expended on
furnishing, it is wisest TO select general scheme at
the start considering carefully the suitability of the
scheme the size and shape of the its lighting
facilities the furniture already provided which
may be obtained for the amount of money in hand
1t is necessary that the entire scheme be COM
petey carried once but the first plan must pro-
vide all the essentials within the financial limit leav
ing the future to provide such other features as
pictures ornaments and additional pieces of furniture
which are not absolutely necessary.
just at present the white bedroom is very popular
with young girls. Nothing could be fresher and
sweeter, but little must be exercised lest it
look too cold and For this the walls
usually white, they may be papered with a
spriggeG pattern which there are small stiff buds
or leaves at intervals on a white ground. White
enameled paint and furniture of white enamel and
or entirely of enamelled wood are used in the