Lavishness Displayed in Bedrooms

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXI, Issue XX, 14 November 1903, Page 64

Lavishness Displayed in Bedrooms

“I do not know that I think a great display of wealth in one’s bedrooms altogether in good taste,” remarked a transatlantic visitor. “In England in the best houses of the old regime vou find everything in the world that really adds to your comfort. The finest of bed linen, delicious towels, and all that one really needs on the dressing and writing tables. But nothing fancy—hemstitched linen sheets, perhaps, but no lace, no incrustations of uncomfortable embroidered crests or monograms on the pillowcases, only smooth, frag rant, shining white linen. “I have never seen such display of luxury as you have over here. In one house I stopped at the lace in the bedroom must have cost a fortune! Real Irish point, such as we would only put on gowns, was used to trim the sheets and pillow cases and the drapery on the dressing table. You felt how costly everything was everywhere you turned. Why. even the leather binding on the books was coloured to match the tint of the Japanese silk margins on the fait! There was a medicine cabinet filled with remedies, -which struck me as very funny, and various kinds of toilet waters in the bathroom. The latter. I must admit, was ideal. Never in England have I seen such luxury provided for one’s daily bath, and how I was to reconcile myself to a tin tub again, which is all I can hope for on my English visits, I do not know. Certainly. Americans are a luxurious people, and they remind one not a little of the ancient Romans in the days of their opulence.”