ittle feet of gilded wood appear at base of mahogany
pilaster.

A gilded urn rests on a mahogany post of bed against the wall, the
only position possible for beds of this style. The head and foot
board are of equal height and alike.

Few Empire beds are now on the market. This one is used with a
roll at each end and is covered with genuine Empire satin in
six-inch stripes of canary yellow and sage green divided by two
narrow black stripes and a narrow white stripe between them.

[Illustration: _Corner of a Room in a Small Empire Suite_]

To-day a bathroom is considered the necessary supplement to every
bedroom in an apartment or house, where the space allows, and no house
is regarded as a good investment if built with less than one bath to
communicate with every two rooms. Yet among the advertisements in the
New York City Directory of 1828 we read the following naive statement
concerning warm baths, which is meant in all seriousness. It refers to
the "Arcade Bath" at 32 Chambers Street, New York City.

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"The warm bath is more conducive to health than any luxury which
can be employed in a populous city; its beneficial effects are
partially described as follows:

"The celebrated Count Rumford has paid particular attention to
the subject of Warm Bathing; he has examined it by the test of
experiments, long and frequently repeated, and bears testimony to
its excellent effects. 'It is not merely on account of the
advantages,' says the count, 'which I happen to see from Warm
Bathing, which renders me so much an advocate of the practice;
exclusive of the wholesomeness of the warm bath, the luxury of
bathing is so great, and the tranquil state of the mind and body
which follows, is so exquisitely delightful, that I think it
quite impossible to recommend it too highly, if we consider it
merely as a rational and elegant refinement. The manner in which
the warm bath operates, in producing the salutary
consequences, seems very evident. The genial warmth which is
so applied to the skin in the place of the cold air of the
atmosphere, by which we are commonly surrounded, expands all
those very small vessels, where the extremities of the arteries
and veins unite, and by gently stimulating the whole frame,
produces a full and free circulation, which if