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together, and make the chintz ruffle, and enamel the shelves white, and
do every bit of it except cut the plate glass. Of course the glass is
very clean and nice, but an enameled surface with a white linen cover
would be very pleasant.

The same blue and white chintz was used for the hangings and bed
coverings. Everything else in the room was white except the thick cream
rug with its border of blue and rose and buff, and the candlesticks and
appliques which repeated those colors.

[Illustration: MRS. FREDERICK HAVEMEYER'S CHINOISERIE CHINTZ BED]

[Illustration: MRS. PAYNE WHITNEY'S GREEN FEATHER CHINTZ BED]

There is a chintz I love to use called the Green Feather chintz. It is
most decorative in design and color, and such an aristocratic sort of
chintz you can use it on handsome old sofas and your post beds that
would scorn a more commonplace chintz. Mrs. Payne Whitney has a most
enchanting bed covered with the Green Feather chintz, one of those great
beds that depend entirely on their hangings for effect, for not a bit of
the wooden frame shows. Mrs. Frederick Havemeyer has a similar bed
covered with a _Chinoiserie_ chintz. These great beds are very beautiful
in large rooms, but they would be out of place in small ones. There are
draped beds, however, that may be used in smaller rooms. I am showing a
photograph of a bedroom in the Crocker house in Burlingame, California,
where I used a small draped bed with charming effect. This bed is placed
flat against the wall, like a sofa, and the drapery is adapted from that
of a Louis XVI room. The bed is of gray painted wood, and the hangings
are of blue and cream chintz lined with blue taffetas. I used the same
idea in a rose and blue bedroom in a New York house. In this case,
however, the bed was painted cream white and the large panels of the
head and foot boards were filled with a rose and blue chintz. The
bedspread was of deep rose colored taffetas, and from a small canopy
above the bed four curtains of the rose and blue chintz, lined with the
taffetas, are pulled to the four corners of the bed. This novel
arrangement of draperies is very satisfactory in a small room.

In my own house the bedrooms open into dressing-rooms, so much of the
usual furniture is not necessary. My own bedroom, for instance, is built
around the same old Breton bed I had in the Washington Irving house. The
bed dominates the room, but there are also a _chaise-longue_, several
small tables, m