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HO USE & GARDEN 
33 Rollicking 
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The Decoration of the Billiard Room 
(Continued from page 49) 
furniture with dull finished wood 
and straight, square legs, sturdy 
enough to support the weight they 
have to bear. This is a vast improve¬ 
ment upon the banal type already al¬ 
luded to, but it is only a beginning. 
The design of the billiard table is a 
subject of proper concern to both the 
cabinet maker and the architect, the 
latter, perhaps, more particularly be¬ 
cause he is in a position to exercise 
greater influence than the former, 
whose pursuits are widely separated 
from the specialized business of the 
billiard table maker. 
The lighting fixtures, of course, 
must be so arranged that a strong 
light falls directly on the table and 
does not shine in the eyes of the 
players and the stringing of counters 
on a wire above the table is so 
obviously practical that no criticism 
could be made. But there ends the 
line of unchangeable billiard room 
appointment. All else is free to in¬ 
dividual initiative in the planning of 
treatment and the first thing that sug¬ 
gests itself is the manner of dealing 
with the walls. There seems at one 
time to have been a popular prejudice 
-—it still exists to some extent—that 
the walls of a billiard room should be 
dark and consequently a great many 
billiard rooms where dark walls were 
not inherently suitable were made 
dark and gloomy. If the rest of the 
house is finished in dark panelling 
and it suits the billiard room, use it 
but do not put it in merely because 
a mistaken or imaginary convention 
bids you do so. In many a case, light 
panelled or painted walls are far pre¬ 
ferable. The light color, however, 
should be of such hue as not to weary 
or distract the eye. Various tones of 
grey are often advisable for wood¬ 
work and walls. 
Whatever the color of the walls, 
whether they are panelled in dark 
wood or painted grey or some other 
light hue, keep them free of obstruc¬ 
tions and distractions in the shape of 
pictures and bric-a-brac. If a picture 
is hung on a wall, it is presumably 
meant to be looked at and ought to 
be worth looking at. But in a billiard 
room, the table, the balls and the 
plays of the players ought to be the 
center of attraction and a good pic¬ 
ture is misplaced, while a poor one is 
an impertinence. As for rows of 
steins and kindred embellishments, 
they are almost as bad, though not 
quite so unsanitary, as the “cosy” 
Turkish corners that used to infest 
houses not so many years since. Pic¬ 
tures and other adornments some¬ 
times distract the eye and disturb the 
shot of the player and it is, therefore, 
better to keep them elsewhere. 
The rack for the cues is not usual¬ 
ly a sightly or pleasant object and is 
much better concealed within a cabi¬ 
net or cupboard placed at such a 
height that it is easy to remove and 
replace the cues. Besides this and 
the table, there ought to be little 
other furniture in the room and noth¬ 
ing to impede the players in their 
movement—or to interfere with their 
freedom in handling their cues. 
Chairs and small tables ought to be 
avoided. If the room is large enough, 
it is much better to build settles or 
benches about the walls, raised a step 
or two above the floor so that on¬ 
lookers may see the better. 
Do not clutter the billiard room 
with things that do not belong there 
and do not try to use it for other 
purposes. The writers know of one 
large and expensive house, recently 
built in one of our Eastern states, 
where an attempt has been made to 
combine a library and billiard room, 
of course, with disastrous results. 
The bookshelves are too close to the 
players, interfere with their move¬ 
ments and distract the eye. While 
the books themselves are not given a 
position becoming their dignity. This 
was an extreme case, but it serves to 
show to what lengths of impropriety 
and thoughtlessness some people will 
go in the decorative treatment of 
their billiard rooms. 
Counting the Cost of Farming 
(Continued from page 41) 
the side of the hill behind the cot¬ 
tages where several springs are situ¬ 
ated. One of these springs had been 
used for years to water stock in the 
pasture and had never been known 
to go dry. The others were dug out 
and walled up, and all were carried 
in pipes into one reservoir built of 
field stone and cement. It is 9' x 12’ 
x 1 ’ deep, covered with a tightly-built 
spring house with windows for venti¬ 
lation. It holds about 100 barrels 
of water. An overflow pipe from 
the top of this tank prevents a flood. 
An inch pipe carries the water from 
the reservoir to the faucets in the 
kitchen sinks of the bungalows. 
Waste water is carried to a cesspool 
built below the cottages. This cess¬ 
pool is dug down to a sand bottom 
and stoned up with a heavy wall. It 
is 8' x 8' x 10', or large enough to 
accommodate several more bunga¬ 
lows. The water system was rather 
expensive, but it is there to stay. 
Below is itemized this expense and 
that of building one bungalow : 
Water works complete (large 
enough for several houses) : 
Opening springs . $20.84 
Labor on reservoir: 
Material and masons’ time. 227.14 
Work on ditches. 134.52 
Sewer pipe. 20.60 
Cesspool . 32.27 
$435.37 
Cost of plans used for both bun¬ 
galows, $65.60. 
Cost of erecting one bunga¬ 
low foundation. $193.13 
Labor and material for 
house . 1,744.09 
Grading and filling about 
building . 200.00 
Cost of one bungalow.$2,137.22 
Entire expenditure: 
Cost of both bungalows_$4,274.44 
Water system. 435.37 
Architect’s drawings. 65.60 
Complete expense.$4,775.41 
Farm Equipment 
A man at general farming on a 
small place where he does his own 
work, as nine-tenths of our farmers 
do, gets as return for his efforts 
about what a day laborer would re¬ 
ceive. If his wife and children work 
hard too, they may keep out of debt 
and lay by a little. It is a life with 
too much to do in the summer and 
not enough in the winter, but it is an 
independent life. This man seldom 
has new tools or new ideas. 
The man who hires his labor and 
tries to make both ends meet has to 
go about it on quite a different scale. 
If he is going to compete in the 
market with other large growers he 
must spend a few years getting his 
soil in condition for bumper crops, 
and he must work it with the best 
machinery on the market. Only with 
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