Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1914 — USE FOR THE MIRROR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

USE FOR THE MIRROR

APART FROM USUAL PURPOSE, IT ADDS TO ROOM’S APPEARANCE.

Well Worth the Coat, Which Need Not Be Prohibitive, in Enabling *Owner to See Herself as Others See Her.

How any woman creature is able to 'do without a full-sized mirror is more than I can tell! This eliding up and down of a small mirror to get a whole effect has ever been a mystery to me, writes Ethel Davis Seal in the New York Press. And yet I know they do it! I know one woman who sets her mirror on the floor to vieW the hem of her skirt; on a chair to arrange her girdle, and completes her head dressing through the aid of a nail on the wall. She really could afford two or three large mirrors, if

she made up her mind to it, but she just doesn’t take the trouble. On the part of some, this hesitancy to acquire a large mirror is sometimes due to a dislike for the usual mirrored furniture to be seen in the shops—and the prices. Of course, all mirrors are expensive, every one knows that, and so, when laying out the money for one, it should be of a' design which appeals to the owner. Mirrors have two other very important uses. They make a small room look larger and they make a dark room lighter. Either one of these uses provides a sufficient reason for having one or more mirrors about, without considering their transcendent quality for the reflecting of feminine beauty. (It is a well-established fact that the men never use them. Clearly proved by the number of men we see gazing raptly into those terrible chewing-gum mlrrqr arrangements to be found in every subway station.) Now one of the easiest mirror “plans” is to have one installed in the closet door of the bedroom. It is not necessary for the glass to be beveled, though this is a matter of taste and price. A sufficiently large piece of glass would cost about $lO or sls. The cheval glass shown in connection with the vase and footstool could easily form the keynote of a very charming room. This is to be found in the shops, and is priced at SSO. It eomesinmahogany,gray or white enamel. If it and the rest of the furniture were in gray enamel, the walls and woodwork might be in cream, the wall tone being a few shades darker than that used on the woodwork. The rug, of course, would be very important) and it would be worth while to hunt until one finds exactly the right thing, which should be a rug in which grays and buffs and creams blend, with touches of old blue and old rose; a rug which is so soft and delightful in coloring that one would be, tempted Ifep Hang. It this wall. The floor should be painted gray, a few tones darker than the furnitures” And in this way have we fitted the framework of our room to hold our furniture.