If the college boy is put in the white and gold bedroom for even a vacation period, there will shortly come into its atmosphere an element of sporting and out-of-door life.

Banners and balls and bats, and emblems of the "wild thyme" order will colour its whiteness; and life of the growing kind make itself felt in the midst of sanctity.

In the same way, girls would change the bare asceticism of a monk's cell into a bower of lilies and roses; a fit place for youth and unpraying innocence.
The bedrooms of a house are a pretty sure test of the liberality of mind and understanding of character of the mother or house-ruler.

As each room is in a certain sense the home of the individual occupant, almost the shell of his or her mind, there will be something narrow and despotic in the house-rules if this is not allowed.

Yet, even individuality of taste and expression must scrupulously follow sanitary laws in the furnishing of the bedroom.