n the same
fertile brain that is responsible for all the rest of the perfect
appointments. The headboard is in the shape of a shield and there is
painted thereon a spray of wild roses to bring to the sleeper over
whom they bend sweet dreams of perpetual summer time. And the white
counterpane and snowy pillows in the setting of green and gold make it
a most inviting place of repose.

The chairs were resurrected from the debris in the family attic. There
are two heavy old-fashioned ones of curly maple, and they are
cushioned with a brocaded green and gold material that exactly match
the green of the furniture. Then there is a comfortable little rocking
chair cushioned with the same material and painted in green with many
stripes of gold.

But it is the dressing table that is the most charming of all the
unique devices that make the room attractive. It was a battered old
washstand at first, but now it is a work of art. It is painted, of
course, in green and gilt, and there is a spray of wild roses on the
front. Above it is a green and gilt framed mirror with a spray of the
favorite wild roses again overhanging the top part. Over mirror and
washstand and all is draped a canopy of white muslin. Among the other
articles that find place on the table is a little fairy lamp with a
shade of green tissue paper that gives the softest light imaginable.

A comfortable green window seat in the corner is well supplied with
pillows covered in green and gold brocade, and up and around the
window there clambers an old English ivy.

There is an oddly fashioned bookcase in another corner. You would
never guess it, of course, but it was constructed out of two dry goods
boxes. It is painted green inside and out and fitted up with four
shelves. A green silk curtain hangs from a brass rod, and about the
edge of the bookcase is a gilt cornice. The top is covered with
bric-a-brac.

For pictures there is an etching or two on the wall in green and gold
frames, and you have a room the very sight of which is cool and
refreshing, and which cost its owner some time and some planning, but
very little money.

Pictures.

Be careful of the pictures and their relations to the walls. Rooms
should rather be a setting for a beautiful moving picture of the
shifting groups of people in it.

Too much gilding, too many gaudy oil paintings attract the eye and
distract the mind.

There is a simple picture in my room, red curtains, a white-robed
child