The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-05-25
Your Bedroom
BV ". ARLINGTON BRUCE
Author OF The Riddle OF Person
atty" Psychology aud
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How Is your bedroom arranged?
How is 70 furnished? How IA Il pa
percd and ornamented?
advise you 10 give some thought
Co these questions. For the make
up Of the room in which you sleep
is OF far more Importance 30 you
than IN all probability YOU imagine.
Psychologists working on the
great problem ~ health, happiness,
and efficiency. have discovered that
The inanimate things In a persons
home surroundings have a profound
psychic influence upon him This
because behavior is determined By
the ideas that get into the mind.
and everything in the environment
is OF some idca-crosting significance
Also psychologists have discoy
cred that the psychic influence ~ in
animate things increases in proper
ton as they are seen repeatedly.
early IN the day. and the las, thing
az night.
Hence. OF AT rooms IN = house
Tho bedroom IS % special psychic
power For the things in il are
things on which every dan per
sons gaze rests arst and last in his
waking moments
70 then. care be- taken % make
The bedroom particularly bright, AZ
tractlye. and cheerful. II will tend
20 create m the mind % SIS occu-
pant a hopeful. confident attitude
toward Hfe In general H. on the
opposite tho bedroom looks cheer
less. its creative tendency VIII be
i'm the direction 90 depressed moods.
Now. moods ~ depression are
handjcaps on success Roth directly
and Indirectly they make FOR mem
cheney
Under their influence yiEor Of
thought and sction is lowered n
only because they slow NJ the work.
Ing ~ tho internal bodily organs.
and particularly the ORGANS % d
resGon when food IS dleeste-+'
badly the brain 81 course IS nour
shed nsuToieruy And p poorly
nourished brain means impaired
power ~ thought
There "a here hint ~ consld
cradle Importance 20 chronic nerv
Ous dyspep'ics
n their bedrooms have been III
wisely arranged and decorated and
This is likely 20 be found the case
they can help their digestion and
help themselves back 20 happiness
AZ well as health by reforming
their sleeping quarters 10 greater at
trac;Iyeness
Bnt the mistake must not be
made % contounding at'rsctiveness
with gaudiness OF decoration or
quantity ~ furniture and ornament.
Observation has shown that the
psychic influence o. bedroom "a
pered too bright colors. or crowd
Cd Nth furniture and brio ahrac ia
always nerve .straiuinE Such
room creates feelings % unrest and
discomfort r may even be a factor
in causing nervous breakdowns
7 know OF case IN which
wealthy woman. for years q nervous
Invalid. was vastly improved Yin
health when nc bedroom and SIR
ting room in which she spent most
% her time were rearrauged by a
decorator who had psychological in
sigh,
Re persuaded her 10 get rid o;
the massive furniture. The heavy
ornameutaton. the too abundant
vases. mirrors. etc
In their stead he put light furni-
ture 81 simple design Ornament
no limited 20 a few green draperies
and Vellchosen pictures Wall pa
per - quiet hue. and without PAT
tern Of any sort. replaced fhe over
powerine rcd paper that had been
on fhe walls
In p word. he DECORATED and ar.
ranged these rooms with the great
purpose OF making them truly
cheerful and re7tful in their psychic
influence Which g. what Won
ought 20 DO with your bedroom. u
~ rs not already thus arranged