I think that in country houses where there is not a bathroom with each
bedroom there should be a very good washstand provided for each guest.
When a house party is in progress, for instance, and every one comes in
from tennis or golf or what not, eager for a bath and fresh clothes,
washstands are most convenient. Why shouldn't a washstand be just as
attractively furnished as a dressing-table? Just because they have been
so ugly we condemn them to eternal ugliness, but it is quite possible to
make the washstand interesting to look upon as well as serviceable. It
isn't necessary to buy a "set" of dreadful crockery. You can assemble
the necessary things as carefully as you would assemble the outfit for
your writing-table. Go to the pottery shops, the glass shops, the
silversmiths, and you will find dozens of bowls and pitchers and small
things. A clear glass bowl and pitcher and the necessary glasses and
bottles can be purchased at any department store. The French peasants
make an apple-green pottery that is delightful for a washstand set. So
many of the china shops have large shallow bowls that were made for
salad and punch, and pitchers that were made for the dining-table, but
there is no reason why they shouldn't be used on the washstand. I know
one wash basin that began as a Russian brass pan of flaring rim.
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