CHAPTER VI.
THE TOILET.
HERE is no prettier object in either
bedroom or boudoir than the spot
where "the toilet stands displayed."
Whether it be a shrine à la Duchesse
(Fig. 19) or the simplest form of
support for a mirror, it will probably be the most
interesting spot in the room to its fair owner.
Consequently there is nothing upon which the old love
of decoration has more expended itself even from
its earliest days, or which modern upholstery
makes more its special study than this truly
feminine shrine. I will say nothing of mirrors
with three sides which represent you as a female
"Cerberus, three ladies in one," or indeed of
mirrors of any sort or kind, as our business lies
at this moment more with the tables on which
they should stand. These can be found or
invented of every imaginable form, and contain
