LIVING IN ROOMS

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2313, 4 December 1925, Page 2

LIVING IN ROOMS

The girl who lives in furnished rooms has often to bo content with things very different from what she would wish. Good rooms are so hard to secure at a reasonable charge that she is lucky if she gets a room clean and comfortable and In a convenient locality and she has to shut her eyes to defects in the furniture, colours which clash and the presence of too many ornaments. Some hostels and board-ing-houses which cater solely for bachelor girls have bedrooms and bedsitting rooms very simply arranged with only the absolutely -necessary articles of furniture. A girl who secures those apartments is lucky, for it leaves her plenty of room to arrange her own particular treasures, her books and pictures, with one or two pretty cushions and covers to make the room home-like. Even in ordinary rooms the landlady sometimes allows a girl to remove the ornaments and pictures and substitute her own. Unless a bachelor girl is quite satisfied with her “diggings” and is likely to remain in them a considerable time, it is worth while to attempt to alter th e furnishing of tire room. If, however, It is likely to be her home for a year or so, she should try to arrange the room so that she obtains as much comfort as possible. A really easy chair, footstool, a warm rug for the bed, one or two cushions, a hot-water bottle, a shelf for her books, are things which make all the difference between comfort and discomfort. Sewing things should be kept in a pretty cretonne bag to match the cushion covers, and writing materials neatly slorcd in an attache case. Medicines, unless they can bo kept in a medicine cupboard, which is unlikely, should be stored In a largo biscuit tin, and safety pins, lint, cot-ton-wool, etc., can also be kept there, and the whole put in an accessible cupboard. A gas ring, a kettle and an iron are also Indispensable possessions when one is living in rooms.