offering the same degree of sanitary cleanliness, is a bathroom
enamelled in some delicate tone to accord in colour with the bedroom
with which it connects.

PLATE XV

This illustration speaks for itself--fruit dishes and fruit,
candlesticks, covered jars for dried rose leaves, finger bowls,
powder boxes, flower vase, and scent bottles--all of Venetian
Glass in exquisite shades.

[Illustration: _Venetian Glass, Antique and Modern_]

Some go so far as to make the bathroom the same colour as the
bedroom, even when this is dark. We have in mind a bath opening out of
a man's bedroom. The bedroom is decorated in dull blues, taupe and
mulberry. The bathroom has the walls painted in broad stripes of dull
blue and taupe, the stripes being quite six inches wide. The floor is
tiled in large squares of the same blue and taupe; the tub and other
furnishings are in dull blue enamel, and the wall-cabinets (one for
shaving brushes, tooth brushes, etc., another for shaving cups,
medicine glasses, drinking glasses, etc., and the third for medicines,
soaps, etc.) are painted a dull mulberry. Built into the front of each
cabinet door is an old coloured print covered with glass and framed
with dull blue moulding and on the inside of each cabinet door is a
mirror. One small closet in the bathroom is large enough to hang bath
robe, pajamas, etc., while another is arranged for drying towels and
holds a soiled clothes basket. On the inside of both doors are
full-length mirrors.

The criticism that mirrors in men's bathrooms are necessarily an
effeminate touch, can be refuted by the statement that so sturdy a
soldier as the Great Napoleon had his dressing room at Fontainebleau
lined with them! This fact reminds us that we have recently seen a
most fascinating bathroom, planned for a woman, in which the walls and
ceiling are of glass, cut in squares and fitted together in the old
French way. Over the glass was a dull-gold trellis and twined in and
out of this, ivy, absolutely natural in appearance, but made of
painted tin. The floor tiles, and fixtures were white enamel, and a
soft moss-green velvet carpet was laid down when the bath was not
used.

Bathroom fixtures are to-day so elaborate in number and quality, that
the conveniences one gets are limited only by one's purse. The leading
manufacturers have anticipated the dreams of the most luxurious.

Window-curtains for bathrooms should be made of some materia