The Pleasantville Press

My HILDA HUNT
Every child should have a place of its very own for play and playthings. Of course the nursery is the obvious solution to the problem. But every home where there is a child cannot always afford a nursery. The modern apartment for instance, frequently has not sufficient rooms to set one aside for the playroom or nursery. Again, in the case of the very young child the mother wants to keep her eye on it at all hours of the day, and apportioning a room where the child must necessarily be by itself while the mother goes about her household duties is not practical.

The above sketch shows the way one mother solved her nursery problem. The child was three years old, too young to be left alone, so the mother set aside one corner of the living room, as illustrated, for the child's play room. A window seat with drawers beneath furnished a place for toys not being used at the moment. A low rack of shelves afforded further place for toys and books. A low child's table and a couple of small chairs were all the other furniture necessary, with the exception of an attractive screen, which could be drawn across the corner affording the child greater privacy when the mother was entertaining callers.

There is nothing more appropriate for children than cotton, both for clothing and the interiors of their playrooms, so this mother used a pretty novelty check gingham for the slip cover to the window seat, a slip cover for the cushion of the child's rocker, a cover for the table, and curtains for the window. Of course the other windows in the room had to be curtained in the same, but they proved very effective, even for grown-ups. The cushions on the window seat were covered with slips of plain material, so that, like the chair and window seat cushion covers, they could be removed for laundering.

This child's corner required but four feet along either wall.