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.
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