[Illustration: By permission of the Butterick Publishing Co.
THE WRITING CORNER OF A CHINTZ BEDROOM]

The chintz used in this room is patterned in the rose red of the carpet
and a dull cool blue, on a white ground. This chintz is used on the
graceful sofa, the several chairs and the bed, which are ivory in tone.
The hangings of the bed are lined with taffetas of rose red. The
bedcover is of the same silk, and the inner curtains at the window are
lined with it. The small table at the head of the bed, the kidney table
beside the sofa, and the small cabinets near the mantel, are of
mahogany. There is a mahogany writing-table placed at right angles to
the windows.

From this rose and blue bedroom you enter a little dressing-room that is
also full of color. Here are the same cream walls, the dull red carpet,
the old blue silk shades on lamps and candles, but the chintz is
different: the ground is black, and gray parrots and paroquets swing in
blue-green festoons of leaves and branches. The dressing-table is placed
in front of the window, so that you can see yourself for better or for
worse. There is a three-fold mirror of black and gold lacquer, and a
Chinese cabinet of the same lacquer in the corner. The low seat before
the dressing-table is covered with the chintz. A few costume prints hang
on the wall. You can imagine how impossible it would be to be
ill-tempered in such a cheerful place.




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