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Show For a GirVs Room in a Bungalow SO many families speDd their summers! nowadays (or a part of each summer) in a simple bungalow in the country or iu an idealized camp in the mountains! that the problem of space to keep clothes.! A.C., is a most imporlaut one. Every girl' who has some su..-h homo as this takes a kcu interest io the arrangement of herj L""n room and each one will plan somoi o.'lly scheme of decoration. When she' tomes to the iftestion of how lo take enre of her clothes and small possession? geii-l orally she has reached the most ditlicult part of her work. These delightful little, summer homes rarely have adiquatc! wardrobe space and one has to devise j schemes to help out. One very g.-ud arranfc'. . ,i i.- a kind of trunk cover. .1 w ith crctcr... io match the lci orations ot ;.,e -.-.jolu Ii K not necessary neces-sary to have vui -rom- -or this purpose; pur-pose; indeed, it is belter 'i. have a woo.. en box made II'ko j, rn nt;, Uir that is not m) heavy, 1 5u t die boi should have 'rays lie a truuk. cither as the ordinary travelling iiunk u.ude or it may open iu ;h from like a bureau trunk and have trays that slide iu at-.l out; bur trays it Iamst have tu hold a girl's dainty summer '.iiti-lin ow ns Tln-s-e V ' os can br- kept iiu- h liher if they are folded and laid out flat than if hung up, but they must nol be piled on top of each other. ' Not more than two should go in one tray. When the box has een made by n carpenter car-penter the owner can easily cover it herself her-self with the cretonne. It needs only to be tacked smoothly around and finished w ith a bimplo Kiinp. m. of the tiajs might be arranged iu small compartments to hold collars, gloves, oils and other small accessories. The girl who is having one of these "trunk boxes" made will liu.J it very convenient con-venient to have a similar but much finaller one made to hold sewing materials mate-rials and cover that v.uii the rjyiac cretonne. cre-tonne. It is a great comfort to have one's needles, thread, tieiss-.-rs, thiuible and buttons but-tons ready for use at a moment's notice. Such a sewing box as this can be planned to exact p.- lit with one's own id. -a as to what is ihe most couvenieut wuy to keep these various things. The girl can unkc an exact design of how she wants ihe 'box mid have ihe carpenter opy it If she has o sewing table iu her ciiv home iiiianiced according to her ow n ideas she can e,M,y lb- plan of that in this simpler fashion for the summer bungalow. A box is better for thp country than a lab).-, because be-cause it can b" so easily picked up ;mi carried our to the por. h if one wauls to it there aud sew. |