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House & Garden 
^eady 
when friends call 
SERVES BY DAY AND BYiNIGHT 
Copyright 1913, Davenport Bed Makers of America sjjfl 
Sometimes on long, lazy evenings with the second 
pipe well alight and the hero of the story in the 
book you are reading just remarking to the lady 
in blue that they must have met somewhere before, 
there is a sudden ringing at the door. Then the 
cheerful voices of friends—the greetings of welcome 
and the settling back for a visit. 
A Davenport Bed is the popular haven at such 
times as this. Four or five group themselves on 
its snug cushions, relaxing to its gracious comfort. 
And later, when happy hours of visiting must give 
way to hours of restful sleep, the Davenport Bed 
offers the comforting embrace of a restful bed, 
with real bedsprings, real mattress—all that a 
good bed means. 
Davenport Beds are charming and inviting pieces 
of furniture. In graceful outlines and with ex¬ 
quisite skill the designers have builded into them 
a tone of luxury and beauty that adds to your 
joy of living. 
The Davenport Bed is a modern addition to the 
furnishings of the home, saves space, and is easily 
converted from davenport to bed and back again. 
In both capacities the Davenport Bed is eminently 
practical. 
Your furniture merchant will gladly show you 
many designs and combinations of upholstery and 
woods from which you can readily make a selection. 
Our brochure sko'zvs photographs of 
nearly a hundred styles. Write for ie. 
DAVENPORT BED MAKERS 
OF AMERICA 
Standard Oil Building, Chicago 
HOW to BUILD ^ POOL 
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larly installed, gives the effect of a boil¬ 
ing spring by having its opening from 
1 " to 3" below the surface of the water. 
By these means, then, the pool is filled 
and kept in motion. 
To keep the pool from running over, 
and to keep the water line at a uniform 
level, an overflow pipe is used. This 
pipe can be installed in several differ¬ 
ent ways. The method illustrated in 
the drawing on page 62 is a trifle more 
elaborate piece of pipe-fitting than the 
usual devising, but it does away with 
one drain pipe, and is neat of arrange¬ 
ment and simple to operate. It is an 
overflow and drain-off combined. By 
examining the drawing it will be seen 
that when the “drain valve” is closed 
the water from the pool will flow un¬ 
impeded up and down the pipes marked 
“overflow”. Now, the cross pipe at the 
top of this arched arrangement is fixed 
at the same level with the desired water 
line of the pool, so that the water will 
not begin leaving the pool until it has 
reached the height of the cross pipe. 
To avoid turning this contrivance un¬ 
wittingly into a syphon, and thus drain¬ 
ing the pool completely (just why it 
should do this is rather involved and 
difficult to explain, and doesn’t matter; 
it simply does it), it is necessary to drill 
a little hole in the top of the cross 
pipe to prevent a vacuum forming 
inside. 
DRAINING THE POOL 
Of course, when the valve handle 
marked “drain valve” is opened the 
water stops going through the arched 
overflow arrangement and rushes 
through the larger pipe below, empty¬ 
ing the pool in short order. In con¬ 
nection with this overflow and drain- 
off pipe line it is essential that a fine 
wire mesh screen be fitted over the 
pipe opening in the pool, else there 
will be trouble. 
The valve for the inlet pipe should 
be located close to the drain valve in 
order that both valves may come within 
the same valve box. The box, if made 
of wood, should be thoroughly creo- 
soted, and it should rest on a bed of 
cinders, as shown in the drawing, so 
that any water dripping from the pipes 
or leaking in through the cover will 
drain off easily. The box may be lo¬ 
cated at any distance from the pool so 
long as the cross pipe of the overflow 
arrangement is fixed at the proper level 
to keep the water line of the pool 
where wanted. The character of the lid, 
then, should be determined by the char¬ 
acter of ground surface around it. If, 
for instance, the surface there is paved 
with flagstones, a manageable flagstone, 
fitted with a countersunk ring-bolt, 
might be used for a cover; if the sur¬ 
face is turf, a cast iron lid painted dark 
green would be best perhaps. 
DETERMINING PIPE SIZES 
The pipe sizes in all cases should 
be governed by the size of the pool, 
the size and strength of the inlet stream, 
and the speed with which it is desired 
to empty the basin. Each pool is a 
distinct problem in this respect, and the 
problem for each one should be solved 
by a competent authority in these 
matters. 
To get back to the pool proper, there 
are finishing touches to perform which 
have as much to do with the practical 
working of the pool as they have to do 
with its appearance. When the concrete 
has “set” and the forms are removed, it 
will be seen that the concrete surface 
inside the pool is not particularly smooth. 
In certain types of gardens this will 
not matter, nor will it matter if water 
plants are to be grown in the pool 
and water transparency, therefore, 
no object. However, in cases where a 
smooth finish is wanted, and where an 
added precaution against leakage is de¬ 
sired, a coat of rich cement may be put 
on the bottom and sides. This cement 
grouting on the bottom can serve as 
the means of getting a slope from all 
parts of the pool to the outlet opening, 
this being obviously important. 
TILE-LINED POOLS 
When the pool is to be lined with 
tiles, the tiles are set on this cement 
grouting. If the tiles are the very small, 
“mosaic” variety, they may be pasted 
on sheets of paper in the pattern de¬ 
sired, faces down, then set in mass on¬ 
to the cement. Tile setting of any 
kind is work for an expert. 
All the directions given so far may 
be applied to garden pools of almost 
every shape and size. The principles 
outlined are generally the same in every 
instance. Pools that are variations from 
this most ordinary type are raised pools, 
pools with curved basins, and pools 
with puddled clay bottoms. Yet even 
these require the same safeguards 
against frost, the same kind of rein¬ 
forcement, the same schemes of drain¬ 
age, and the same plumbing arrange¬ 
ments—all, perhaps, with some slight 
adaptation to their peculiar needs. 
Most of the construction described 
above is underground and out of sight. 
The shape of the pool and its coping 
are the things most noticeable from 
above, and it must be admitted that 
these things are pretty often common¬ 
place and absurd. 
The size of the pool should bear some 
relation to the size of the space it oc¬ 
cupies in the garden and by its impor¬ 
tance in the scheme. There is no strict 
rule about this; it has got to be felt 
to a large extent. Generally a pool in 
the center of a garden may be smaller 
than one at the end. 
THE MATTER OF SHAPE 
The worst possible shape for a pool 
is that of a rectangle in which the 
length and width dimensions while 
different, are so nearly similar that 
their relationship is utterly undistinc- 
tive. If the shape is rectangular it 
should be e.xactly square or definitely 
long. Oval pools are difficult to build, 
as well as to handle in the garden’s 
design. Round pools seem to be at 
their best when the outside line of the 
coping forms a square or when they are 
set in a square space; the combination 
of these two primitive shapes being al¬ 
ways pleasing. Other shapes than these 
should be studied carefully and given 
skillful treatment to avoid the possibili¬ 
ty of becoming ridiculous. Naturalis- 
tically irregular shapes in obv’iously ar¬ 
tificial pools fool nobody and fill sen¬ 
sitive observers with disgust. 
The matter of copings is one that is 
usually overdone. In a very grand gar¬ 
den there is an excuse for conspicuous 
copings of cut marble, but rarely is 
there an excuse for them elsewhere. Ac¬ 
cording to the other treatment in the 
garden the pool may be coped with 
brick, tile, flagstone, or ev'en turf. In 
the drawing on page 62 the top sur¬ 
face of the coping is shown to be flush 
with the surface of the ground adjoin¬ 
ing. The effect of this arrangement in 
an unpretentious garden is infinitely 
more satisfying, and more graceful than 
one in which the coping is raised. The 
coping should have something of an 
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