Evening star., 1940-08-25
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE

pecially to those who live in small
quarters. So | have done my best to
devise means whereby they may be
freed from unwelCome visitors. But
now comes letter taking an opposite
point of view. In appearance. every
thing about the letter is both smart
and modern - typically modern hand
writing, smart writing paper. smart
dye-stamping! But it comes from a
spokesman for gone-back-to- grand
mothers idea of hospitality that
throws the front door open wide.
Won't you please, dear Mrs Post.
encourage those who think they live in
quarters too small to have people stay
with them. not to give up this pleas
ure? | know they can manage better
than they imagine if they will only try.
MY husband and | - like thou
sands of Others in this great city
greatly miss our friends at home. My
grandmother used to say: Where
there is heart room, there is house
room And it seemed to us that we
would be losing much of the pleasure
of living. by not being able to have
Mother and Father or Aunt and Uncle
visit us under our own roof.
Our apartment has four rooms -
our own good-sized bedroom, a very
big living room - very airy, with two
windows on the street and two oppo-
site on court, thus making splendid
cross-draught "a tiny dining room.
and real kitchen That means spare
room has to be made out of the living
room when we have overnight guests.
THE first thing we bought was a
big comfortable sofa - and one that
does not look at all like bed. Yet it
can be pulled out into either double
bed or twin beds We also have big
lounge chair that can be turned into a
bed; but even so it doesn't yell I'm
to be slept on to anyone who walks
into the room.
Fortunately. the bathroom opens
into little hall between the bedroom
and the living room. and not into the
bedroom. This is really essential. be-
cause having to 60 through the bed
room to the bath would certainly not
be the most ideal arrangement when
having guests in the living room!
Locked Bofhroom Shelves
ONE discomfort we discovered was
the lack of bathroom shelves and
towel racks for guests. But we found
chromium extenslon-racks to fit over
bath-towel racks, and this gives us
plenty of room. We also put in an
extra cabinet for our guests sole use.
Your book of etiquette makes a
particular point Of big sheets, won
der if you wouldn't agree that cot sized
sheets for folding bed and sofa use are
better than using the larger ones.
Certainly the smaller sheets make up
neater-looking living room beds.
1--WE wanted to get shutter-screen.
which would give privacy and air
both; but we have no place to keepit.
So we took an idea from the motion
picture. 1T Happened One Night. and
hooked cord from one window frame
across to the window on the other side
of the room. On this is run china
silk curtain When not in use, cord and
all fold up into tiny bolster case.
But the questions I'd like to ask
are these: Where to put the blankets,
the pillows, and linen for extra beds
They take up great deal of room
Shall buy cosmetic table? Or
what sort of dressing table and bureau
can be disguised when the living room
is not bedroom? Another question:
The windows of a sleeping room are
necessarily opened no matter what the
weather, and am very.worried about
our lovely silk curtains at the living
room windows.
Though most of us might not prefer
toentertain in quarters as small as this
reader describes, still many of US find
ourselves doing so at one time or