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We know daffodil rooms
in which a lovely yellow and stem green are combined. In fact one mother
with half a dozen daughters, in the. Spring of their years, has taken a
flower for each prom and the family always say, "You will find it in the
Primrose Room," meaning Kath-erine's, or "It is in the Rose Room," meaning
Belle's.
One modern girl ultra
modern, whose room is much discussed, has used colors of a more
sophisticated sort than those above. She goes in for crimson, royal
purple, orange and emerald green, and shades her lamps with plain natural
colored parchment paper, over which she drops squares of chiffon hole cut
out in the center. These "veils" are of every rich Oriental shade and
weighted with gold fringe or balls sewn to the corners. Her walls are
covered with Japanese fiber paper in dull gold, and at her windows hang
curtains of a very thin, rope color material found as theatrical gauze.
This she has bound with emerald green satin ribbon. The valance at the top
and the bands, which loop back, the curtains are of cretonne having a
purple ground with birds as design, in most of the colors used over
lampshades.
Every young girl likes
a three-winged mirror on her dressing table. We think her very wise. The
hair most carefully arranged is going to look the most attractive and the
hat put on at an angle to accentuate the special charm of the girl who is
inspecting herself, is the hat one will call a "winner." Your young girl
knows!
As to the wood of which
her furniture is made, that is a question of the style of the season. This
sounds, and is, very expensive unless your young girl is the clever,
up-to-date, self-helping sort who can do things herself. There are many
girls of fifteen and sixteen who paint their own furniture and do it very
well.
They get their brother
or some friend, expert with the saw, to amputate unbeautiful knobs and
other fancy excrescence, once the fashion, but compared with modern
creations patterned after classic shapes, offensive to ^her eye. Any girl
with a keen intelligence can educate her taste by studying the furniture
displayed by the leading dealers.
The young girl's room
must be what she, not your mature woman, calls attractive. So consult each
girl in turn. Young girls as a rule like bright and spring like colors.
One should feel on entering that some happy girl calls it her very own.
Hangings and furniture covers can be of solid colors, pink, yellow or pale
blue with dancing, frilly white sash curtains. If. Preferred, lovely
chintz and cretonne to suit each style of furniture come at all prices.
Dear to the heart of
your young girl is a dressing table with a three-winged mirror. They sound
an extravagance, but remember you can pay a great deal for one; a moderate
sum, or you can even make one yourself! If you are blessed with plenty of
this world's goods and can satisfy your heart's desire we would suggest
furniture of the Louis XVI style made in some light glossy wood or
painted. This style with cane let into wood is very girlish and charming.
But do not be discouraged; if you are possessed of more taste than money,
use your wits. Buy what you can and make the rest!
We have in mind an
ingenious woman who made for a young girl friend a fascinating
three-winged mirror in fact the whole table by reconstructing an
old-fashioned washstand that had one drawer and two doors below. The doors
were removed and became the side wings of mirror. Sides and back of stand
were also taken away and the back lifted to form back of center mirror.
Mirror glass was then fastened to center and wings and framed with picture
molding. Sides and back with doors having been removed, the four corner
uprights figured as the four legs of a slender dressing table. The whole
was painted and enameled white. A clever girl can make almost anything!
One young woman we know
bought up many kinds of old tables, chairs, bureaus and beds at auctions
in her town, and these she stored in her father's barn to make over on
rainy afternoons after school hours. This resulted in her refurnishing
their home, and then, that turned out so alluring, she drifted into
decorating the homes of friends. To day, five years after she painted her
first piece of furniture, she has become a full-fledged decorator, with
her sign out!
She loves doing rooms
for young girls and says "Give your girl, as well as your older woman, a
sofa in her room and on the foot of each sofa a dainty, soft and warm
coverlet to draw up over the feet and limbs if she wants to steal a nap
after lunch or before dinner. Let this coverlet be one of the bright
colors used for lampshades or sofa pillows. Give your young girl gay
colors and graceful shapes; plenty of mirrors and windows, lots of
windows! Youth would have light and life."
Your young girl needs a
writing desk in her room and so placed that the light falls over her left
shoulder. If it is comfortable to write, she will be far more apt to
answer letters and not put off the "bread and butter" sort! Start her with
a generous supply of paper, pens, ink, stamps and blotters. After that she
is the one to see that her equipment is kept up so that the desk of some
grown-up is not resorted to for necessities.
As much a necessity as
her desk is her worktable. And when your young girl moves into her
beautiful and complete new room, she is of tea so fascinated by the
convenience of silks and cottons to match all her belongings that the task
of repairing ceases to be a burden and things get done as a matter of
course. It is all taken as one of the items "in the day's work" or
program.
Those who live with young people of either sex know
that half the battle of teaching order is won when a place has been
provided for everything. By this method "house-keeping" is reduced to its
simplest form and the actual cost of service kept down. All youth has its
untidy moments not to be taken too seriously, but the chronic habit of
untidiness, if not checked, gets into the character.
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