The San Francisco call., 1910-11-20

How to Furnish an Attractive
Apartment for the FASH
iOnabIe Doll

ppS"uSe tne rooms may be larger than
the ordinary dollhouse and fit for liv-
ing quarters for the real dolls, where
as so often in the dolls house there
is not single room large enough for
ones best doll to ger into, much less
TO turn around in comfortably. The
doll apartments or flats usually consist
OF three rooms oqly-bedroom, bath
room and drawing room or living room
There are also house keeping apart
ments which include bedroom parlor
Kitchen and dining room, but these are
apt to be smaller, and it is better to
nave two room apartment with large
rooms than a four room apartment
with smaller ones.
The apartment may very nicely be
made of boxes, each box serving as a
room. The bathroom may open out OF
the bedroom and may be made simply
by putting up a cardboard partition at
one end of the bedroom. Cut a door
way in the partition and hang up a
portiere~ The two boxes which form
the rooms of the apartment may be
fastened on a single board foundation
or nailed together before the rooms
are papered.
The walls may be papered or covered
with denim tackled neatly along the
edges. The floors also look well COW
cred with the denim, over which rugs
may be used For the dressing room
there should be comfortable chair a
dressing table, bed, chest OF drawers,
possibly second chair and trunk if
you happen to have one The room
and all it's furnishings should be large
enough for the doll to use if you want
to have the most fun out of the dolls
apartment.
The dressing table is easily made of
plain table or even wooden box,
which is draped with white muslin or
chintz. Over the table mirror should
no ic alr Of
small mirror, which you may frame in
white or chintz to match the dressing
table. The bed may also be draped
with the white material or the chintz,
and the chair may be covered with the
latter. 1t is nice to make a cover of
the chintz for the trunk also. Small
colored pictures of flowers or birds are
nice for such a room, and it is often
possible to cut these out of old cards.
They may be framed in gold paper.
The other room may be either
handsome drawing room or a cozy liv-
ing room. If you prefer an elegant
apartment, then everything should be
in accord, and paper, carpet and furni-
ture should be quite elegant in appear
ance. There are. of course, different
styles of furnishings, and as each girl
will probably have some pieces to
start with it is best to choose the other
things to go with these instead of
ture. In a. green drawing room the pic
lures should all have frames of gilt
paper and mirror with gold frame
is also attractive. A piano is suit
able for this room and there should
be a table with a bowl of flowers. The
curtains may be of velvet, silk or lace
and the furniture covered with satin
damask, velvet or silk
If you prefer living room, then the
furniture is much more simple, and
there should be a bookcase and writ
ing desk. or a table arranged as writ
ing desk, and a center table with
lamp on it and books. A comfortable
couch is necessary to this room. and a
rocking chair is considered suitable.
The pictures may have frames that
look like wood and are made OF brown
paper. Plain cartridge paper is nice
for this room, and it is we'll to have
wooden floor, stained, or If the floor
is too rough for that a covering of
brown denim, with rugs over 1t, will
look like a stained floor.
Plain wooden furniture without any
upholstery is suitable for this room,
and plain net curtains or those of
muslin with long curtains over them,
the latter being made of denim or
linen. There should be plenty of
cushions for the couch, which may be
covered with denim, and there also
may be cushions for the chairs, espe-
cially the rocking chairs.
Much of the furniture for the sitting
room may be made at home without a
great deal of trouble. The couch may
be made OF a wooden box or a strong
mattress and then with upholstery ma
terial You do not have to make a
real mattress. Any piece of thick ma
terial doubled several times, or piece
of an old quilt cut to tit the couch will
do for the top of the couch. A ruffie of
the denim or chintz with which the
couch is to be covered is put around
the sides of the couch and tackled with
very spall tacks. The cover for the
top Of the couch is brought down over
this at the sides, and few stitches
here and there tack 1t in 80 that the
top of the ruffie does not show. An
easier way is to make the ruffie for the
sides of the couch with heading and