live in it myself, and while they all differed in decorative schemes the essentials were the same in each room:  a comfortable bed, with a small table beside it to hold a reading light, a clock, and a telephone; a chaise-longue for resting; a long mirror somewhere; a dressing table with proper lights and a glass covered top; a writing table, carefully equipped, and the necessary chairs and stools.  Some of the bedrooms had no connecting baths, and these were given wash stands with bowls and pitchers of clear glass.  Most of these bedrooms were fitted with mahogany four post beds, pie crust tables, colonial highboys, gay chintzes, and such, but there were several rooms of entirely different scheme.

[Illustration:  A COLONY CLUB BEDROOM]

Perhaps the most fascinating of them all is the bird room.  The walls are covered with an Oriental paper patterned with marvelous blue and green birds, birds of paradise and paroquets perched on flowering branches.  The black lacquer furniture was especially designed for the room.  The rug and the hangings are of jade green.  I wonder how this seems to read of—­I can only say it is a very gay and happy room to live in!

There is another bedroom in pink and white, which would be an adorable room for a young girl.  The bed is of my own design, a simple white painted metal bed.  There is a chaise-longue, upholstered in the pink and white striped chintz of the room.  The same chintz is used for window hangings, bed spread, and so forth.  There is a little spindle legged table of mahogany, and another table at the head of the bed which contains the reading light.  There is also a little white stool, with a cushion of the chintz, beside the bed.  The dressing-table is so simple that any girl might copy it—­it is a chintz-hung box with a sheet of plate glass on top, and a white framed mirror hung above it.  The electric lights in this room are cleverly made into candlesticks which are painted to match the chintz.  The writing-table is white, with a mahogany chair in front of it.

Another bedroom has a narrow four post bed of mahogany, with hangings of China blue sprigged with small pink roses.  There was another in green and white.  In every case these bedrooms were equipped with rugs of neutral and harmonious tone.  The dressing-tables were always painted to harmonize with the chintzes or the furniture.  Wherever possible there was an open fireplace.  Roomy clothes closets added much to the comfort of each room, and there was always a couch of delicious softness, or a chaise-longue, and lounging chairs which invited repose.

[Illustration:  By permission of the Butterick Publishing Co.  MAUVE CHINTZ IN A DULL-GREEN ROOM]