THE NURSERY PARADISE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 28 July 1928, Page 21

THE NURSERY PARADISE

Such loving ingenuity, such fine imaginativeness as go to the furnishing of the modern nursery have surelv been unequalled in childhood's history. For small children in happy homes, this is assuredly the golden age. Space in modern houses may be restricted but joy is unconlined! And the very limitations of space have suggested some of the most alluring of the magic that is expressed in miniature furni ture. The combined day and night nursery these days is the rule rather than the exception. And so the charming little furnishing pieces are made to ser.ve a dual role. The dressing table becomes a writing table by day The washstand. though the casual observer would never guess it. is convertible into a toy chest. Cot and bath fold up. and are stored tidily away in a corner to make more play room space available. Dear little chairs, only IS inches high, are brightly painted, and bantables attached to them. Rather like high chairs without the legs. One typical set, in deep ivory, is picked out in red. A special joy is the toybox, made as a doll's house, with plenty of room for the child to instal itself therein with its toyland trea sures. Childhood knows hours and hours of happiness in such a setting! And now, loveliest of all. is the Christopher Robin pottery, one presentation set of which has been accepted with exclamations of supreme delight by Princess Elizabeth, while a replica copy has found an appro priate home chcz Christopher Robin himself! I> W