Another guest room was done in gentian blue and white, with a little buff and rose-color in small things.  This room was planned for the guests of the daughter of the house, so the furnishings were naively and adorably feminine.  The dressing-table was made of a long, low box, with a glass top and a valance so crisp and flouncing that it suggested a young lady in crinoline.  The valance was of chintz in gentian blue and white.  The white mirror frame was decorated with little blue lines and tendrils.  Surely any girl would grow pretty with dressing before such an enchanting affair!  And simple—­why, she could hinge the mirrors together, and make the chintz ruffle, and enamel the shelves white, and do every bit of it except cut the plate glass.  Of course the glass is very clean and nice, but an enameled surface with a white linen cover would be very pleasant.

The same blue and white chintz was used for the hangings and bed coverings.  Everything else in the room was white except the thick cream rug with its border of blue and rose and buff, and the candlesticks and appliques which repeated those colors.

[Illustration:  MRS. FREDERICK HAVEMEYER’S CHINOISERIE CHINTZ BED]

[Illustration:  MRS. PAYNE WHITNEY’S GREEN FEATHER CHINTZ BED]

There is a chintz I love to use called the Green Feather chintz.  It is most decorative in design and color, and such an aristocratic sort of chintz you can use it on handsome old sofas and your post beds that would scorn a more commonplace chintz.  Mrs. Payne Whitney has a most enchanting bed covered with the Green Feather chintz, one of those great beds that depend entirely on their hangings for effect, for not a bit of the wooden frame shows.  Mrs. Frederick Havemeyer has a similar bed covered with a Chinoiserie chintz.  These great beds are very beautiful in large rooms, but they would be out of place in small ones.  There are draped beds, however, that may be used in smaller rooms.  I am showing a photograph of a bedroom in the Crocker house in Burlingame, California, where I used a small draped bed with charming effect.  This bed is placed flat against the wall, like a sofa, and the drapery is adapted from that of a Louis XVI room.  The bed is of gray painted wood, and the hangings are of blue and cream chintz lined with blue taffetas.  I used the same idea in a rose and blue bedroom in a New York house.  In this case, however, the bed was painted cream white and the large panels of the head and foot boards were filled with a rose and blue chintz.  The bedspread was of deep rose colored taffetas, and from a small canopy above the bed four curtains of the rose and blue chintz, lined with the taffetas, are pulled to the four corners of the bed.  This novel arrangement of draperies is very satisfactory in a small room.