Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1913 — FURNISHINGS OF WHITE [ARTICLE]

FURNISHINGS OF WHITE

IDEAL BEDROOM MUBT HAVE NO TOUCH OF COLOR.

Not at All Hard to Acquire, and It Must Be Acknowledged That the Effect la Infinitely Pleaaing. All-white bedrooms are a craze among young girls. Fortunately they are easily acquired provided one has a room, some fresh calcimine for the walls and ceiling, and a sufficiency of white paint with which to enamel the floor and the furniture. If the room has already., been papered, every shred of the decoration must be scraped off and the walls cleanly washed before the calcimlning is applied, as otherwise their surface, when dried, will not be of virgin whiteness. The idea of an all-white floor may at first seem an absurdity, but it will keep clean as long as a dark surface if white rag rugs are placed before each window, door and piece of important furniture, and, as every housekeeper knows, to wash a small rug is an easy matter. Having given each piece of furniture a double coat of white enamel paint, make the counterpane, the valance and the hollow pillow roll of the bed of muslin embroidery, using the all-over for the spread and the roll cover and the half-yard deep flouncing for the valance and the long ends of the pillow holder., The top of the dressing table, if of glass, should fit over an equal-sized mat of all-over muslin embroidery, but if the table is wholly of wood, its spread should be of the allover banded with St. Gall galloon and finished at each end with ten-inch edging. When this -table has the regulation three-leaf mirror, its ends only need be lined with white cambric veiled with all-over, but If there is a single-leaf, detached mirror, it must be hung against h dorsal of cambriclined lingerie, edged at top and sides with St. Gall. If possible, keep the chiffonier in the clothes press, as at best it is an ugly piece of furniture, but if it must be given bedroom space, cover its top with a scarf matching that on the toilet table, and veil its sides and front with curtains of St. Gall suspended from slender white rods screwed against the top’s edges, and be resigned to the nuisance of pushing the draperies aside whenever it is necessary to open a drawer. Drape the windows from top edge to sills with slightly gathered widths of the all-over finished at both ends with eight-inch edging and use similar materials for the shades of the lamp and sconces which are cheap in white cjiina. Nothing in picture and photograph frames is daintier than those in allwhite muslin embroidery basted over strips of heavy white cardboard, and easily taken off and washed when dust-soiled.