BATHROOM COMFORT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 663, 15 May 1929, Page 6

BATHROOM COMFORT

LOOKING AFTER GUESTS “Here’s the bathroom. I hope you find everything you want,” we say hospitably to the guest who has come to stay; and as much thought and trouble should have been taken in arranging the appointments of this room for our friend’s reception as in regard to the spare bedroom. In the house where there are no suites composed of bedroom and bat* room to be placed at the exclusive disposal of guests, the general bathroom, or bathrooms, should always be kept in perfect order. Hot water ought to be available for baths before breakfast and before dinner; clean both towels, some small hand towels for the wash-hand basin, a fresh cake of good bath soap, as well as one of toilet soap, must be ready, with nail and back brushes, and a dry bathmat.

However small the compartment, squeeze in a chair or a bathroom stool where clothing may be placed. Provide a really capacious bath towel. The small squares of turkey towelling which are too often kept specially for guests seem hardly adequate when one looks forward to a cold shower and a good rub down. In a lavishly-run household fresh bath and hand towels would be placed each day, but every three days is often enough to change these in the ordinary appointed establishment. All litter of bottles, jars, sponges and damp towels belonging to members of the family are neatly cleared away before the guest appears, splashes are wiped up, and the b rubbed clean. It is not very pleasant to the fastidious-minded to find obvious evidence of the occupation of the previous bather. In the mornings give your guest the advantage of the hottest water, and the first turn for the bathroom, if possible, when there is only one. The woman guest of dainty tastes will be pleased if she finds a jar of fragrant bath salts and a big, open bowl of toilet powder placed for her use. When your friends arrive after a long railway journey or dusty motor run, suggest that a bath might be welcome; .and, again, after some strenuous sets on the tennis court, have made the thought of a cool dip before dinner very refreshing. On the other hand, the guests themselves, when not enjoying the luxury of bathrooms en suite with their bedrooms, should take thought for their fellow-bathers and not selfishly take all the hot water, or leave personal property, heaps of damp towels, and general untidiness behind, besides making their ablutions as expeditiously as possible, so that others may use the room, too. A man with all the earmarks of a labourer was smoking thoughtfully and watching a large building in process of construction. Being shorthanded, a foreman approached and asked: “Hey. you want a job?” “Yes,” was the reply, “but X can only work in the mornings.” “Why can't you work all day?” “Well,” the man explained, “every afternoon I got to carry a banner in the unemployed parade.” Petrol is an excellent cleaner for clothes and gloves, the articles being entirely immersed in the liquid. Gloves are best cleaned on the hands.

Brass that has been allowed to get so dirty that the application of a polish is not sufficient should first be rubbed over wih a raw lemon. This ! will remove the outside dirt, and then I the brass should be polished in the ordinary way. fi Chamois leather, seccotined inside The back and sides of shoes that are too large, prevents holes in stockings, and also keeps the stockings from being stained by the leather.