I do hope it
inspires the proper love-letters.
I always make provision for writing in dressing-rooms--a sliding shelf
in the dressing-table, and a shallow drawer for pencils and paper--and I
have adequate writing facilities in the servants' quarters, so that
there may be no excuse for forgetting orders or messages. This seems to
me absolutely necessary in our modern domestic routine: it is part of
the business principle we borrow from the efficient office routine of
our men folk. The dining-room and the bathrooms are the only places
where the writing-table, in one form or another, isn't required.
I like the long flat tables or small desks much better than the huge
roll-top affairs or the heavy desks built after the fashion of the old
_armoire_. If the room is large enough, a secretary after an Eighteenth
Century model will be a beautiful and distinguished piece of furniture.
I have such a secretary in my own sitting-room, a chest of drawers
surmounted by a cabinet of shelves with glass doors, but I do not use it
as a desk. I use the shelves for my old china and porcelains, and the
drawers for pamphlets and the thousand and one things that are too
flimsily bound for bookshelves. Of course, if one has a large
correspondence and uses one's home as an office, it is better to have a
large desk with a top which closes.
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