Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1916 — PLACE FOR MIRROR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PLACE FOR MIRROR

No matter what room in your bouse or anybody else’s 'house may need a mirror, you can find it by a little careful shopping; for the shops are full of attractive mirrors, made to harmonize with every sort of house and furniture. A cheval glass, or any portable, fulllength mirror is especially useful in giving size and brightness to a room. And as the portable mirrors can be moved to catch shifting lights, they have an added attraction. The one in the sketch is made with a black enameled frame, finished witfi a narrow, white molding next the glass. There are mirrors framed with Japanese lacquered frames that have much to recommend them. They are usually of Irregular shape and hang flat against the wall, above a console table or in some recess where they catch and reflect light The design in the lacquered frame is always slight but effective. The mirror with candles on each side is always pretty. There are some very old -mirrors of this sort, with silver frames and candlesticks. But their modern counterparts, with carved wood baskets of flowers and fruits, painted in natural colors, decorating an enameled or carved wood frame, with small candleholders at each side, are almost as attractive. All this talk about mirrors, and yet not a word about the most obvious use. They are used to decorate a plain wall, to brighten a dark corner, to reflect a pretty view, to add apparent size to a small room. But does the modern usage of mirrors ignore their ability to reflect the human face and figure? Indeed not. Never before were hand glasses and the mirrors on toilet tables, dressers and dressing-room doors so wonderful. It is a long, call from Eve’s crystal mirror or the Egyptian beauty’s mirror of burnished metal to the wonderful mirrors which every woman has on her dressing table today. Perhaps one of the best things about these modern mirrors, aside from the very fact of their perfect surface, their wonderful reflecting powers, is

their variety of shape and size. There is everything, from the tiny circular mirror, of magnifying sort, that forms the base of the individual powder-puff bag, to the full-length mirror that is a panel in the dressing-room or boudoir door. The most convenient dressing-table mirror is in three sections, and these can be adjusted so that one gets a good view of the coiffure without the necessity of using a handglass. Of course mere man sometimes needs a mirror, much as he scoffs at them at other times. And for his particular benefit there is the shaving mirror, with several sections, adjustable so that he can get his image from several angles. There is also the mirror to which is attached a tiny electric bulb to throw a brilliant and glaring light in his face and so make the task jof shaving easier.

Mirror Decorated With Flowers at the Bottom and Candles at the Sides.