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Show BED'S FINAL TOUCH fkDVICE AS TO THE SELECTION OF A COUNTERPANE. ' All-White Furnishings Mean Much Trouble and Expense for Laundering Launder-ing "Color Scheme" Has Many Great Advantages, Every woman likes to havo dainty, nttrnctlvo looking beds, but for the woman who does her own work nnd the woman who must consider laundry laun-dry bills, n bit of discretion Is neces-sary neces-sary when It comes to tho choosing of a counterpane. Some of us still cling to tho notion no-tion that a bed's furnishings must all bo white. Wo hanker after tho curiously curi-ously wadded affairs lu Intricate floral designs that gave bo many hours' enjoyment to our grandmothers' grandmoth-ers' Industrious fingers; or wo cast covetous oyes upon tho heavy handsome hand-some Marseilles counterpane displayed dis-played In tho shops. Theso, however, uro not only costly in tho beginning, but must go to an exponslvo laundry or a professional cleaner when soiled! s.o If madam must havo wblto all white and her purso Is limited, she would best buy dimity or honeycomb counterpanes, which nro light, dainty ond almost ns easily laundered as it tiheet. If sho Is willing to Introduce a "color "col-or schomo" Into her bedroom, however, how-ever, her rnngo of choice Is very much wider. Shu can buy, ready for use, a colored counterpane In bluo, brown or pink, which Is lighter In weight and much cheaper than tho Marseilles, but heavier than tho dimity or honeycomb. honey-comb. If sho has a tasto for novelties and tlmo nnd talent for needlework sho can make herself covers of (lowered lawn or cretonne. Two or threo, according ac-cording to tho slzo of tho bed, strips or lawn Bewcd together and finished nil around with n deep flounce mnko an nttrnctlvo substitute for n regulation regula-tion counterpane. Tho lawn, even tho cheapest grade, Is apt to wnsh well, und theso covers nro easily "done up," even by an amnteur. The cretonno covers ure made In tho Bame way. but slnco tho material l so much heavier many w'omen prefer pre-fer to leave off tho flounce, Blmplj making a deep hem at cither ond Tho sides, of course, hnvo tho selvedge sel-vedge of tbo material, Covers ol this kind nro usually tueked In nfter the mnnner of an orthodox counter pano. Cretonne has tho knack of shedding diiBt and keeping clean fot a long tlmo. When tho day of reckoning reck-oning comes, as It must, It 1b well to "set" the colore, by putting some salt Into tbo water In which tbo cover Is to bo washed. |