Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1885 — Where Beauty Sleeps. [ARTICLE]

Where Beauty Sleeps.

Would you like to see how a New York belle of millionaireism sleeps? I can gratify you so far as to describe, with literal exactness, the bedroom of a young woman whose name is printed as often as anybody’s in the society reports. I never saw a more beautiful, cozy, in every way delightful place than the sleeping-foom of this young princess of fashion—this eldest child of a many-millionaire. The wall-paper was pale gold on faint slate-color. The gilt bedstead was pushed against a square of plaited silk of pale gold, with! slate-colored silk bows at the corners. Just such another square of plaited silk rose to the ceiling above the washstand. On that werej only pitcher, bowl, soap-dish, and so on, because water is presumed to inyite sewer gas, but all of the choicest ware. A great sheet of beveled looking glass, six feet high, swung on brass rods above the floor in one corner for the young woman to see her whole attire in. She had, also, a handsome folding glass to reflect her ears, back hair, and neck. There was an open fireplace, besides the hot air register; a dressing stand, laden with pretty toilet boxes and bottles; an ivory clock, like a birdcage, in which ivory canaries trilled sweetly as each hour began; easy chairs and a rocking-chair to match the wallpaper and furniture; a pretty little nrie-dieu fpr the young woman to say ner prayers upon as fashionably as possible; and 3 a wealth of little elegancies, completing a general effect

that was exquisite, dainty, and inviting beyond computation. Opening out of this room the young millionairess had another* apartment where she wrote and painted and “worked,”so to speak, but I did not see it. — Late New York letter, ‘