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ago in my theater dressing-room when I was on the stage. I can see
myself back, front and sides before I go out. Really, it is a comfort to
be on friendly terms with your own back hair! I lay great stress on the
mirrors and plenty of lights, and yet more lights. Oh, the joy, the
blessing of electric light! I think every woman would like to dress
always by a blaze of electric light, and be seen only in the soft
luminosity of candle light--how lovely we would all look, to be sure! It
is a great thing to know the worst before one goes out, so that even the
terrors of the arc lights before our theaters will be powerless to
dismay us.

If there is room in the dressing-room, there should be a sofa with a
slip cover of some washable fabric that can be taken off when necessary.
This sofa may be the simplest wooden frame, with a soft pad, or it may
be a _chaise-longue_ of elegant lines. The _chaise-longue_ is suitable
for bedroom or dressing-room, but it is an especially luxurious
lounging-place when you are having your hair done.

A man came to me just before Christmas, and said, "Do tell me something
to give my wife. I cannot think of a thing in the world she hasn't
already." I asked, "Is she a lady of habits?" "What!" he said,
astonished. "Does she enjoy being comfortable?" I asked. "Well, rather!"
he smiled. And so I suggested a _couvre-pieds_ for her _chaise-longue._
Now I am telling you of the _couvre pieds_ because I know all women love
exquisite things, and surely nothing could be more delicious than my
_couvre-pieds._ Literally, it is a "cover for the feet," a sort of
glorified and diminutive coverlet, made of the palest of pink silk,
lined with the soft long-haired white fur known as mountain tibet, and
interlined with down. The coverlet is bordered with a puffing of French
lace, and the top of it is encrusted with little flowers made of tiny
French picot ribbons, and quillings of the narrowest of lace. It is
supposed to be thrown over your feet, fur side down, when you are
resting or having your hair done.

[Illustration: MISS MORGAN'S LOUIS XVI. DRESSING-ROOM]

You may devise a little coverlet for your own sofa, whether it be in
your bedroom, your boudoir, or your dressing-room, that will be quite
as useful as this delectable _couvre-pieds_. I saw some amusing ones
recently, made of gay Austrian silks, lined with astonishing colors and
bound with puffings and flutings of ribbon of still other colors. A
coverle