unornamental toilet accessories, or the compromise between the two--the
princess dresser--with the roomy chest of drawers or chiffonier. The
all-white furniture gives the room an air of chaste purity and is no
more expensive than a set in any other good wood, but must be well
enameled or it will be impossible to keep it clean.



CAREFUL SELECTION

The trend of popular sentiment is toward the metal bed, with
accompanying furniture in plain or bird's-eye maple, mahogany, dark
oak, curly birch, or mahogany-birch. Dressers range in price from $9
to $50; princess dressers from $10.50 to $50; chiffoniers from $10 to
$35; and dressing tables from $10 to $50. Furniture, like friends,
cannot be acquired promiscuously without unpleasant consequences.
There is no economy in buying cheap, veneered pieces which will be--or
ought to be--always an eyesore. The truly thrifty homemaker will wait
until she can afford to buy something genuinely good, and then buy it
with the conviction that she is laying up treasures of future happiness
and contentment. The "good" piece is exactly what it claims to be,
without pretense or artificiality, of hardwood of course, of simple
construction, and graceful, artistic lines, its few decorations carved,
not glued on.



TOILET AND DRESSING TABLES

Simplicity must be the keynote of all bedroom furnishings. The middle