312 Popular Science Monthly 



An Outdoor Window Bed. 



A CLEVER Los Angeles club- 

 woman has invented a window 

 bed which can be used for several pur- 

 poses. It may be used, for instance, as 

 an attachment on a window, whereby 

 a fresh air lover can sleep with his or 

 her head out in the open (Fig. 1). The 

 head is protected from mosquitoes in 

 summer by a metal screen box fitting 

 tightly over the head of the bed. 



By making a few changes in the 

 framework, floored tent or movable 

 playhouse for children is erected. This 

 can also be made 7 feet tall for adults, 

 merely by extending the metal posts. 



Figure 2 shows how the device can 

 be converted into a flower stand out- 



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Fig. 3. How the arrangement becomes a 

 plain bed 



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The same piece of mechanism made into 

 portable two-shelf flower stand 



Fig. 1 . Outdoor sleeping becomes simple 

 without a sleeping porch 



Fig. 2. 



In summer the arrangement can be 

 used as a flower pot support 



side the window and a table inside the 

 window. In Figure 3 it is a plain bed. 

 There are many further possibilities 

 of this versatile bed as an elevated 

 platform for travelling speakers, as 

 a children's theatre stage, as a 

 display stand for itinerant peddlers, 

 and patent medicine men. For further 

 outdoor uses it can be transformed in 

 a few minutes to a portable two-shelf 

 flower-stand (Fig. 4), or a lawn settee. 



For the Amateur Painter 



WHEN painting sash-windows it is 

 very hard not to get any paint 

 on the glass. Any attempt to wipe oft" 

 the paint from the glass means wiping 

 paint from the freshly-coated sash, too. 

 To remedy this take a cake of soft 

 soap and rub it on the glass close to 

 the sash, making a 2" margin. The 

 sash can then be painted without being 

 careful about the glass. When the 

 paint is dry wipe the soap from the 

 glass and the paint will come off the 

 glass, too. 



