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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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When
we
are
fortunate
enough
to
inherit
great
old
houses,
of
course
we
will
give
them
proper
furniture--if
we
can
find
it.
I
remember
a
house
in
New
Orleans
that
had
a
full
dozen
spacious
bedrooms,
square,
closetless
chambers
that
opened
into
small
dressing-rooms.
One
of
them,
I
remember,
was
absolutely
bare
of
wall
and
floor,
with
a
great
Napoleon
bed
set
squarely
in
the
center
of
it.
There
was
the
inevitable
mosquito
net
canopy,
here
somehow
endowed
with
an
unexpected
dignity.
One
felt
the
room
had
been
made
for
sleeping,
and
nothing
but
sleeping,
and
while
the
bed
was
placed
in
the
middle
of
the
floor
to
get
all
the
air
possible,
its
placing
was
a
master
stroke
of
decoration
in
that
great
white
walled
room.
It
was
as
impressive
as
a
royal
bed
on
a
dais.
We
are
getting
more
sensible
about
our
bedrooms.
There
is
no
doubt
about
it.
For
the
last
ten
years
there
has
been
a
dreadful
epidemic
of
brass
beds,
a
mistaken
vogue
that
came
as
a
reaction
from
the
heavy
walnut
beds
of
the
last
generation.
White
painted
metal
beds
came
first,
and
will
last
always,
but
they
weren't
good
enough
for
people
of
ostentatious
tastes,
and
so
the
vulgar
brass
bed
came
to
pass.
Why
we
should
suffer
brass
beds
in
our
rooms,
I
don't
know!
The
plea
is
that
they
are
more
sanitary
than
wooden
ones.
Hospitals
must
consider
sanitation
first,
last,
and
always,
and
they
use
white
iron
beds.
And
why
shouldn't
white
iron
beds,
which
are
modest
and
unassuming
in
appearance,
serve
for
homes
as
well?
The
truth
is
that
the
glitter
of
brass
appeals
to
the
untrained
eye.
But
that
is
passing.
Go
into
the
better
shops
and
you
will
see!
Recently
there
was
a
spasmodic
outbreak
of
silver-plated
beds,
but
I
think
there
won't
be
a
vogue
for
this
newest
object
of
bad
taste.
It
is
a
little
too
much!
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