A Bedroom for the Children

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 4, 10 August 1928, Page 13

A Bedroom for the Children

Lecture by Mrs.

Thomas

at 2FA,

HIS is a room which is especially interesting to do, for it puts all ‘our ideas to the test of practicalitya room in which children are going to live must be easy to clean. |. Everything must be washable. Everything must be solid-nothing is used that can be broken or torn. Thus the margin of faney is very narrow and the question arises, can so severely practical a voom still retain its childish beauty. The question has been answered with a triumphant yes. A children’s room ean be conceived in a great many ways aecording to one’s idea of childhood. If one thinks of the child as an impossibly ethereal creation "trailing glouds of glory,’ one will naturally Mish ‘to provide it with a setting that is equally ethereal and impossible. If | yt one thinks of the child as merely cute one will ineline to the cuteness of the room, and again on the other hand if one regards children as barbarians the only logical place Is to put them ina bare room.

The Modern Child. The modern child objects to being talked down to. He is conscious that the world he lives in is substantially the same worth that the grown-ups live in,, with only a.minor difference in scale. Both he and his elders are interested. in the mechanics of things, in speed and in power, in boats and motor-cars. His boats and his motorcars happen to be, smaller than those of his father, that is all the difference. Hivery care must be taken to make the . room the kind that will appear to the modern child. The mechanical toys are exact reproduction of the machines that children see in the street and demand a degree of mechanical skill in the operation. Children’s Furniture. ANOTHER thing which simplifies the furnishing of a children’s room is the excellent children’s furniture which is made nowadays, and few pieces as possible are used, as children require