Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-03-20
Confessions of q Bride--
KATHERINE'S HOBBY is MIRRORS

Katherine Miller's marvellous regency"
bed made a glorious background for her
golden beauty. Her hurt ankle did not
make 1t necessary for her to stay In
bed, she explained. after she had greeted
Chrys and me, but she rather liked to
take little rest cure, once In a while;
she believed that women could get rid
of half their nervous Affections simply
by shutting themselves up in their own
rooms occasionally.
I agreed with her, but since had
come from the common people, I knew
very well that the women who need
that kind Of a cure most are the very
ones who think they can not have IL.
poured the tea. because Miss
Miller didn't care to sit up 20 do It.
The pretty ceremony interested me
for once. It gave me an excuse for
letting ChFys and Katherine do most
OF the talking. While they chatted,
I studied Katherine's surroundings.
They were as unique as her particular
style OF beauty, altogether as splen-
did as her own lovely person. Every
girl ad0res an artistic room of her
own, and was dOubIy interested in
Katherine's, because my little homo
needed furnishing up bit this
spring. I took notes, mentally, of
the successes and the failures In Miss
AIiller's decorative scheme.
The motif was odd enough-it was
the circle
Chrystobel knew all about the mysti-
cism connected with that symbol and
Il seemed to me that she was rather
vexed because Katherine had seized upon
IL Chrystobel knew that she herself
ought to have such a "temperamental"
environment, but, of course, she could
never initiate Katherlne's suite, even
though che could improve upon It'll
A round mirror in a narrow black
frame topped Katherine's delicately made
dressing table, and another Of much
larger size was suspended by silken ropes
above her chest Of drawers The bed
was a. wonderful thing. with round
headboard, hand-carved and French
caned, and it was covered with a deli
cately Powered and tinted satin spread
having a shirred iounce which quite
concealed the sides of the bed and the
rounded end. The bed looked like an
enlarged and glorihed chaise lounge.
had never seen anything Ike 1t except in
foreign museums.
The table and dresser, the hutch and
the mantle, the shelves and the walls
of the room were cluttered with a treas
ure of rare bottles and boxes and vases,
toilet articles and etchings.
Katherine's pride was her collection of
mirrors. She specialized in round NOR
rors and had spent fortune in gather
ing them together from all parts of the
world. 1t was this collection which sug-
gested the circle as the motif of the
decorations she explained. Chrys en-
Unused vivaciously about the idea, but
was spiteful, L suppose. Said myself
to myself:
Mirrors! How characteristic of a
grill When she admires one of them,
she admires the reflection of her
seIf!'
Judging from the Opulence of her'
bOudoir, L decided that there wasn't
much restraint in Miss MilIer's ma
ture, and because couldn't like her,
in spite of Bob's recent attempt to
make mo do so, 1 hoped that had
considerable restraint In my own
makeup.
"Thls collecting mania must get to
be an awful form of seIf-induIgence,"