Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1915 — MAKES IDEAL GUEST ROOM [ARTICLE]

MAKES IDEAL GUEST ROOM

Fitted in Japanese Btyle, Apartment Gives Impression of Rest and Comfort After Journey. The latest fad of the fashionable hostess is a Japanese guest room in the country house. The tired guest, Just arriving from a warm and uncomfortable journey, is ushered into a dim, breezily cool room with floor covered in Japanese style with mattings, Japanese straw blinds at the windows, draperies of Japanese cotton toweling in blue bamboo and white printing, or pale green, painted with white chrysanthemums. The furniture is natural or green wicker, a Japanese screen showing the remote, ice cool peak of Fuji as a background for gray storks and floating lilies is drawn across one corner, and on a low stand is a big imitation Hawthorne jar in the wonderful Imari blue color and filled with pine branches or ferns. To most folk the idea of a Japanese room brings a mental picture of red and yellow paper lanterns, an open Japanese umbrella swinging from the chandelier and bunches of artificial cherry blossoms stuck in vases. All these colorful decorations are omitted from the Japanese guest chamber, which is in cool, quiet shades of green and bine.