pillows in use, if there is not room for them elsewhere, should be
slipped into covers harmonious in color with the couch drapery. Such
a reclining and sleeping couch may also be used in bedrooms, although
an iron or brass bedstead gives an appearance of neatness and personal
privacy that is desirable in such chambers.

Where there is lack of closet space and lockers, trunks can be utilized
in a flat for storing things. Steamer trunks that can be placed beneath
the beds and couches are therefore the best kind to buy. They can also
be readily converted into window seats by making pads of cotton batting
to fit the tops, and placing over them covers and pillow cushions
harmonious with the decoration of the room. Long flat "wardrobe trunks"
are sold, which contain at one end rods for hanging clothes, so that,
when stood up on the other end against the wall they serve as wardrobes.
They always look, however, like makeshifts, and so are more useful in
travelling than in the home.

Rugs are more desirable than carpets in a city apartment, since they can
be more readily cleaned, and, in case of moving to another flat or a
house in the suburbs, will be more adaptable to the new situation.

Bookcases in a temporary home should be of the unit system, where each
shelf is a separate box enabling the books to be moved without
repacking, and permitting rearrangement to suit the new situation, or
the acquisition of new books. Where, however, the lower part of wall
space is desired to give room for articles of furniture such as couches,
shelves can be built, beginning at four and one-half or five feet above
the floor. Mr. Edwin Markham, the poet, whose home overflows with books,
has greatly economized space by building for them a broad lower shelf,
about eighteen inches wide, and, three inches above this, another shelf