FOR H.M. THE BABY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 117, 20 May 1939, Page 19

FOR H.M. THE BABY

HOME-MADE CUPBOARD

In many up-to-date homes the traditional baby basket is being superseded by a portable cupboard, which can be pushed from room to room without effort while the baby is still young enough to be bathed in a small bath, either in front of the living-room fire or beside the gas or electric fire in nursery.

A cupboard of this kind can be made at home from a whitewood tea-trolley, which may be bought for a few shillings.

Two plywood shelves should be added to the two tiers of the trolley, and two of the shelves should be boxed in, with doors at the front.

The whole should then be painted in a pretty colour to match the nursery colour scheme, and perhaps decorated with two cut-out illustrations of

animals or flowers which should be stuck on and varnished over.

At one side of the trolley a little rail should be fixed for the baby's bath towel.

Inside the closed-in cupboard may be kept all the baby's toilet requirements, free from dust and very orsy to get at when bath-time comes.

The bath may be used on top of the trolley, and kept underneath it when not in use. Later on the trolley may be used as a toy cupboard.