Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-03-24
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
GRAY IN THE BEDROOM COLOR
by Iaura A. KirkmAn.

There is nothing sweeter than white
enameled furniture in the child's, or
young girls bedroom. But the grown
up, IN most cases, prefers some colored
wood
Gray is good color to choose. The
frugal housekeepcr can choose some
such reasonable wood as North Carolina
ash, which comes stained or painted
in gray at price within the reach of the
limited pocket-boOk Indeed, even plain
pine furniture NAV be rubbed down and
painted gray by the clever home woman
herself
Let us say that the housekeeper choose
a grav-and-old-huc color scheme for her
bedroom. The woodwork on the walls
may be either of gray or white The floor
borders, if not of hard wood, may be
painted slate gray, and gray-and-blue
rag rugs may he thrown upon them Tor
one large rug of this kind used
\ gray wooden or gray-enameled iron
bed a gray dressing table, bureau, night
stand and small rocker are the necessary
pieces Of furniture.
The wall paper should have both blue
and the gray note: il may be striped mar
row stripes or lowered q small blue
flower on a gray background or may
bear some small conventional design in
these two colors
Dear-white curtains Of scrim will hang
at the windows. reaching only 20 the sill.
and over them will be gray-and-old-blue
cretonne valances lin some snall-hgure
design the same length as the white
curtains.
If the room be large enough, IL may also
contain willow tahle-desk either stained
or painted grav-the kind that has plate
glass on its surface, under which may be
placed cretonne 10 match the window
valances Although the average living
room makes some provision for letter
writing. IL Is often convenient for the
housekeeper to retire to her own room to
write a letter perhaps when the living
room is being occupied by the young
people.
The day Of white linen covers for bureau
and dressing table top is past. Linen Is
too high IN price 10 purchase for this use;
also, white cloth requires too frequent
launderings The sensible housewife is
now covering her bedroom furniture sur
faces with lengths of cretonne like that
she has used for the window valances. She
may hem these clothes, hem stitch them,
or run hand made picot edging around
them.
To make a pioot edging, buy q spool
Of silkateen TO match the most prominent
color Of the cretonne Gn this case il
should be old-blue) and croche hook
AZ er single crochet, chain four take up
two front ribs of last single crochet and
then make another single crochet. Always
skip one stitch before beginning to count
again, after making the little loop called
the "picot;' repeat this process until you
have chain OF this edging long enough to
CD around the cretOnne cloth Tor to 70
only at each end, if desired. Then sew
this picot edging onto the cretonne-cover
with sewing silk to match the edglng
Tomorrow Lettes. from
Readers.
All inquiries addressed 10 Miss Kirk
man in care of the Efficient Housekeep-
ing department wiI-be answered 10 these
columns In their turn. This requires con-
siderable time, however, owing 10 the
great number received. So if personal or
quicker reply is desired, stamped and
self-addressed envelope must be enclosed
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