Have your mirrors so arranged that you get a good strong light by day,
and have plenty of electric lights all around the dressing-mirrors for
night use. In other words, know the worst before you go out! In my own
dressing-room the lights are arranged just as I used to have them long
ago in my theater dressing-room when I was on the stage. I can see
myself back, front and sides before I go out. Really, it is a comfort to
be on friendly terms with your own back hair! I lay great stress on the
mirrors and plenty of lights, and yet more lights. Oh, the joy, the
blessing of electric light! I think every woman would like to dress
always by a blaze of electric light, and be seen only in the soft
luminosity of candle light--how lovely we would all look, to be sure! It
is a great thing to know the worst before one goes out, so that even the
terrors of the arc lights before our theaters will be powerless to
dismay us.
If there is room in the dressing-room, there should be a sofa with a
slip cover of some washable fabric that can be taken off when necessary.
This sofa may be the simplest wooden frame, with a soft pad, or it may
be a _chaise-longue_ of elegant lines. The _chaise-longue_ is suitable
for bedroom or dressing-room, but it is an especially luxurious
lounging-place when you are having your hair done.
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