Our homes, and how to beautify them . t scale, is the room in Plate for a young lad). The Noiiveau ^Irt spirit is very evident here, but iskept within judicious and refined limits, only in the frieze is there a little freedomof form and colour ; but the general effect is very captivating. A much moreelaborate and costly arrangement is shown in Plate XLL This room vtasone of the features at the Paris Exhibition. It is really a beautiful and elaborateconstruction in finely figured satinwood inlaid with kingwood. At the head of the 235 OUR HOMKS, bedstead there is a panel of richly de
Our homes, and how to beautify them . t scale, is the room in Plate for a young lad). The Noiiveau ^Irt spirit is very evident here, but iskept within judicious and refined limits, only in the frieze is there a little freedomof form and colour ; but the general effect is very captivating. A much moreelaborate and costly arrangement is shown in Plate XLL This room vtasone of the features at the Paris Exhibition. It is really a beautiful and elaborateconstruction in finely figured satinwood inlaid with kingwood. At the head of the 235 OUR HOMKS, bedstead there is a panel of richly designed old rose brocade, in harmony withthe general colour scheme. This old rose combined with the fine sheen of thepolished satinwood seems to flood the room with a gracious warmth and comfort. THE BATH ROOM. A T a pinch it might be possible to live a tranquil, and even a useful, lifewithout a drawing room. It might be possible, under the stress of circum-stances, to make one room serve the purposes of both breakfast room and dining. Ild. 95. IATNTKIJ AND HATH KOi:>M. room. But there is a room which no self-resijecting householder can do without,and that is the l)ath room. One can only marvel at the astounding fact tliat. priorto twenty or thirty years back, the majority of small and medium-sized houses,and perhaps fifty per cent, of the larger ones, were built wijhout bath rooms. Ifthere be any truth in the proverb Cleanliness is next to (lodliness, what anungodly time it must have been before the new order of things. For although abath room is not absolutely indispensable to cleanliness, it distinctly encouragesit. The morning tub is much more inviting when )ou ha\e a comfortable
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