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Show BE CONSIDERATE VITH YOUR MAID Glvo your maid's room thought and care and you will find that she will work the better for It Pleasant surroundings havo an agreeable effect on everybody and makers more cheerful. Thc cook and thr waitress aro human, after all, and Ulu pretty things as well a3 tho rest of us. Tho third floor back is a tempting dumping ground for old, dilapidated furniture, fur-niture, but It really doesn't pay. Instead of thc cheap, double oak bed glvo your maid a single one (It Is cnslcr made) In gray enamel. Havo thc torn, dirty papor removed from tho walla and paint" them a soft gray or buff. Don't uso n carpet on tho floor. It cannot can-not bo taken up and cleaned properly. Rag rugs aro better, and tho floor might bo stained a dark mahogany. An arm chair Is nice, with a cretonne cushion In a dark strlpo. Thc curtains should bo mado of dimity or other soft whlto materialnot ma-terialnot tho floor length kind., but little sash curtains with, perhaps, a valance. A dressing table and chiffonier finished In gray to match tho bed would complete tho furnishing. You would bo proud to show tho now maid such a neat, cosoy room, nnd most of us nowadays have to show a girl In oftonor than wo caro to admit. See If she doesn't slay longer with a room like this In which to sloop. And don't work hor too hard, so sho will have gonio off time In which to uso tho armchair. |