cabinet
fitted with glass shelves for one's bottles and sponges and powders.
There seems to be no end to the little luxuries that are devised for the
woman who makes a proper toilet. Who can blame her for loving the
business of making herself attractive, when every one offers her
encouragement?

A closet is absolutely necessary in the dressing-room, and if space is
precious every inch of its interior may be fitted with shelves and
drawers and hooks, so that no space is wasted. The outside of the closet
door may be fitted with a mirror, and narrow shelves just deep enough to
hold one's bottles, may be fitted on the inside of the door. If the
closet is very shallow, the inner shelves should be hollowed out to
admit the bottle shelves when the door is closed. Otherwise the bottles
will be smashed the first time a careless maid slams the door. This
bottle closet has been one of my great successes in small apartments,
where bathroom and dressing-room are one, and where much must be
accomplished in a small space.

In the more modern apartments the tub is placed in a recess in the wall
of the bathroom, leaving more space for dressing purposes. This sort of
combination dressing-room should have waterproof floor and wall, and no
fripperies. There should be a screen large enough to conceal the tub,
and a folding chair that may be placed in the small closet when it is
not in use.

When the bathroom is too small to admit a dressing-table and chair and
the bedroom is quite large, a good plan is the building of a tiny room
in one corner of the bedroom. Of course this little dressing-box must
have a window. I have used this plan many times with excellent results.
Another scheme, when the problem was entirely different, and the
dressing-room was too large for comfort, was to line three walls of it
with closets, the fourth wall being filled with windows. These closets
were narrow, each having a mirrored panel in its door. This is the ideal
arrangement, for there is ample room for all one's gowns, shoes, hats,
veils, gloves, etc., each article having its own specially planned shelf
or receptacle. The closets are painted in gay colors inside, and the
shelves are fitted with thin perfumed pads. They are often further
decorated with bright lines of color, which is always amusing to the
woman who opens a door. Hat stands and bags are covered with the same
chintzes employed in the dressing-room proper. Certain of the closets
are fitted wi