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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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Then
there
are
the
small
desks
made
by
modern
furniture-makers,
just
large
enough
to
hold
a
blotting-pad,
a
paper
rack,
and
a
pair
of
candlesticks.
There
is
always
a
shallow
drawer
for
writing
materials.
Such
a
desk
may
be
decorated
to
match
the
chintzes
of
any
small
bedroom.
If
it
isn't
possible
for
you
to
have
a
desk
in
each
guest-room,
there
should
be
a
little
writing-room
somewhere
apart
from
the
family
living-room.
If
you
live
in
one
of
those
old-fashioned
houses
intersected
by
great
halls
with
much
wasted
space
on
the
upper
floors,
you
may
make
a
little
writing-room
of
one
of
the
hall-ends,
and
screen
it
from
the
rest
of
the
hall
with
a
high
standing
screen.
If
you
have
a
house
of
the
other
extreme
type,
a
city
house
with
little
hall
bedrooms,
use
one
of
these
little
rooms
for
a
writing-room.
You
will
require
a
desk
well
stocked
with
stationery,
and
all
the
things
the
writer
will
need;
a
shelf
of
address
books
and
reference
books--with
a
dictionary,
of
course;
many
pens
and
pencils
and
fresh
blotters,
and
so
forth.
Of
course,
you
may
have
ever
so
many
more
things,
but
it
isn't
necessary.
Better
a
quiet
corner
with
one
chair
and
a
desk,
than
the
elaborate
library
with
its
superb
fittings
where
people
come
and
go.
Given
the
proper
desk,
the
furnishing
of
it
is
most
important.
The
blotting-pad
should
be
heavy
enough
to
keep
its
place,
and
the
blotting-paper
should
be
constantly
renewed.
I
know
of
nothing
more
offensive
than
dusty,
ink-splotched
blotting-paper.
There
are
very
good
sets
to
be
had,
now,
made
of
brass,
bronze,
carved
wood,
porcelain,
silver
or
crystal,
and
there
are
leather
boxes
for
holding
stationery
and
leather
portfolios
to
be
had
in
all
colors.
I
always
add
to
these
furnishings
a
good
pair
of
scissors,
stationery
marked
with
the
house
address
or
the
monogram
of
the
person
to
whom
the
desk
especially
belongs,
an
almanac,
and
a
pincushion!
My
pincushions
are
as
much
a
part
of
the
equipment
of
a
desk
as
the
writing
things,
and
they
aren't
frilly,
ugly
things.
They
are
covered
with
brocade
or
damask
or
some
stuff
used
elsewhere
in
the
room
and
I
assure
you
they
are
most
useful.
I
find
that
pins
are
almost
as
necessary
as
pens
in
my
correspondence;
they
are
much
more
expedient
than
pigeon-holes.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
