Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-01-19
new FURNITURE
FOR YOUR old
Why Not Scrap Rather lnconven-
lent, Conventional Pieces and
Put In New Ones That Mean
Solid Comfort as Well as
Beautyp

raTHEN you look about among
NV the high class furniture
shops it becomes quite evil
dent that the bachelor Is
taken to be a very luxurious animal.
Whether or not he deserves this repu-
tation, the fact is that whep comes
across a piece of furniture which
seems to express the last word In com
fort 1t is very apt to bear the prefix
"~bachelor," whatever its specific name
happens to be.
Take, for example, the bachelor
%chiffonier," a chest of drawers In the
last stage of evolution. Instead of
regulation drawers 1t has what more
nearly resemble sliding shelves, or
trays, boxed around on three sides, but
protected only by a low rim In front
and inclosed with two cabinet doors.
1t affords a simple ideal place to keep
neatly assorted a wife's shirt waists,
her chiffon waists, lace waists, silk
waists, wells, girdles-in short, all the
finery and foolishness Of a 'woman's
wardrobe. No married man would be
bothered looking in so many compart-
ments for the various items of his daily
attire, even If his wife kept each par
ticular thing in it's assigned place, but
the inference Is that a bachelor who
could afford the luxury of such a bit
of furniture could also afford a valet
or else is already well on the road to
being a fussy, finicky old man.
Many bachelors cabinets" have all
he outward and visible signs of an an
tiaue, or reproduction of an antique,
patterned externally after the old ia
cobean high chests on slender turned
legs. in some cases, or fashioned after
a Heppelwhite bureau, with three
drawers below and the cabinet doors
above. But when these doors are
opened there you have modern con-
~venience expressed to the taste of the
most fastidious.
Perhaps you could give n of these
useful pieces of furniture to your hus-
band for a Christmas present. One
woman did last year, and he, being a
devoted student of astronomy, return
ed the compliment by presenting her
with a telescope on her next birthday.
So now they are both happy.
Another tempting luxury, seemingly
designed to comfort the unmarried
man in his loneliness, though certainly
his benedict brother needs and de-
serves its comforts more, is the ''bache-
lor's couch.' By far the majority of
them are covered with tapestry or
chintz and find a place in the family
living room, where my lord and my
lady both may enjoy the comforts of
this rather unique piece-a bit of fur
niture which, while more luxurious
than your biggest %lounging chair, is
much more formal and digniied than
a chaise' Tongue. Picture it with a
small table at II side to hold the
Sunday papers, ash tray or after din
ner coffee cup and with soft pillows
at the back. If this does not then be-
speak solid comfort with propriety "a
rather difficult combination), what
would?
If more women realized how much
1t means to a man after a hard day to
"stretch OUT for a while in the even
ing with his favorite paper and cigar,
and If more husbands appreciated how
much good it would do their wives to
relax for just a few minutes now and
then during a strenuous week, as one
can only relax when in a reclining po-
sition, there would be more mems
touches of me sort or another In our
living rooms and more bedrooms would
boast the luxury of a lounge.