Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1914 — GUEST ROOM MADE RESTFUL [ARTICLE]

GUEST ROOM MADE RESTFUL

One Hostess Insists on Harmony In Color, Even to the Tint of the Soap Used.

A hostess who is noted for her congenial week end parties, which are given all through the summer at a delightful country house out on Long island, makes a practice of picking up her guestroom soaps while in Paris on shopping bent early in May. There is something, about the delicate, elusive fragrance of a French soap which no American made soap seems to emulate, and though, of course, the French varieties cost a good deal more, the distinction Imparted to a guestroom in this manner is incontestable.

This particular hostess selects four kinds of soap, in four colors to harmonize with her various “ guestrooms, done in rose pink, pale green, pale buff and violet and rose. Blue this hostess debars as too chilly and austere for a bed chamber. The four soaps selected are violet, rose cylamen

and verveine. The violet soap is in a beautiful shade of lavender, the rose soap in pink, the cyclamen in white and the verveine in delicate green. Each soap has the fragrance of the flower it typifies and on one side of the cake is stamped the name of the flower. This hostess keeps also in each guestroom a dainty silk kimono and inexpensive, heelless kid boudoir slippers in the color of the room, so that the overnight or week-end guest who brings only a suitcase is provided with a pretty negligee for breakfast in her room.