The Standing Mirror Can Be Useful

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1073, 10 September 1930, Page 6

The Standing Mirror Can Be Useful

Mirrors fixed on walls are all very well if they have a table arc shelf somewhere near at. hand, to hold powder and comb and the elusive invisible hairpin. Otherwise they are exasperating—the powder gets upset, the comb is always the otl\er side of the j room and, as for the invisible hairpins, everyone knows how well they observe their name once one has dropped them. Now there is a mirror which gets over these difficulties with no fuss, says a writer in the “Cape Times,” and yet takes up very little more room than a wall mirror. It is to be had in silver or in colours. It stands between five and six feet high; the bottom half consists of a narrow panel of painted wood on a little oblong wooden basis; this panel ends on top in a small shelf, which conceals a drawer and, above this, painted wooden uprights hold the long, narrow swivel mirror which forms the upper half of the whole piece. The shelf is just the right size to hold comb and powder when in use, and the drawer to conceal them and other small cosmetic matters when the complexion has been given the last dusting of powder, and the hat has finally been arranged at its most attractive angle.