House & Garden 
Dodson Wren House, 
solid oak. cypress shin¬ 
gles. copper coping. 4 
compartments, 28" high, 
18" dia. Price $6.00. 
Dodson Purple Martin 
House, (cottage style) 28 
compartments. 32 x 27 
inches. Price $16.00. 
Other styles up to $78.00. 
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Dodson Bluebird House, solid I jj 
oak, cypress shingles, copper | | 
coping. 4 compartments. 21" I 
high, 18" dia. Price $6.00. JJ 
Dodson Sexangular 
Flicker House, 16% 
inches long, 12 inches 
wide, 11 inches deep 
Price $6.00. 
Prepare Now for Our 
Returning Songbirds 
B iRD houses erected now and ready for the 
birds on their return from migration will 
insure their being occupied. A few weeks of 
^thcnng will help to make them more popular 
with the birds, and will cause them to blend with 
the natural surrounding. 
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Transplanting Architecture 
( Continued, from page 17) 
Erect Dodson Bird Houses 
they are scientifically built by Mr. Dodson, who 
has spent a lifetime in studying the songbirds, 
"“bits. and. in attracting them to beautiful 
t u' T Tr , , ge > P ls h° me an d bird sanctuary on 
the Kankakee River. 
Dodson Bird Houses will add to the beauty of 
your grounds, and the songbirds, besides singing 
tor you, will protect your trees, shrubs, flowers 
and gardens. 
Ordf>r Nnw Free Bird Book sent on re- 
v^iuei IXUW quest, illustrating Dodson 
Dine, giving prices; FREE also beautiful colored 
bird picture worthy of framing. 
Jose D h H Dnrlsnn President American 
t-M • 1 , D/OUSOn Audubon Association 
731 Harrison Avenue Kankakee, Illinois 
rup. At the windows hangs an English 
printed linen of putty colored ground 
with a close, broad floral pattern in old 
blue and crimson. The furniture is 
mostly of oak, relieved with an occa¬ 
sional piece of walnut. The rugs are 
oiientals with a soft profusion of color. 
In the treatment of bedrooms it has 
been said that the French desire a room 
in which to go to sleep, the English 
one in which to awake. Those in the 
Pratt residence have been built and fur¬ 
nished on the latter principle. There is 
ample sunlight in each chamber and 
each is roomily comfortable. The wood¬ 
work is white and the walls recede into 
a putty color. Draperies are of printed 
mohair. 
The livable atmosphere of this house 
is evident. It is not over-furnished nor 
are its windows over-draped. There is 
no attempt made at stage setting the 
furniture, which, by the way, is one of 
the criticisms lodged against a great 
deal of our contemporary pretentious 
decoration. The house is comfortable 
architecturally. It is a good type of 
architecture for the country or the 
suburb and it stands as an example of 
what can be done in transplanting the 
atmosphere of an old-world home to 
this new-world environment without be¬ 
ing a frank copy of the archaic or an 
unwieldly and questionable grafting of 
old-world details on to a new-world 
design. 
The Garden Swimming Pool 
(Continued from page 35) 
and railing, by a wide cement-paved 
walk; and at the further end of it, 
particularly deserving of notice, the 
materially narrowed enclosure is ex¬ 
tended into a roomy and charming 
lounging retreat—comfortably and at¬ 
tractively furnished in wicker and re¬ 
servedly decorated with potted shrubs 
and plants—into which descend steps 
from a graveled garden walk. 
The pool itself is comparatively small, 
being about 10' wide by 18' in length. 
It is, of course, walled and floored with 
concrete, and graduates in depth from 
about 2' at one end to 7' at the other. 
The water level is so regulated as to 
remain within approximately 6" of the 
top of the basin, and the edge is fin¬ 
ished with a metal hand-rail. Equipped 
with intake and outlet pipes, the water 
supply is constantly refreshed. 
The swimming pool illustrated at the 
top of page 35 is comparatively simple, 
with nothing in the way of screening 
architecture or nearby trees, save on 
the side opposite the house, to shield 
it from view. However, it is located 
in the rear grounds, and there are trees 
and foliage somewhat removed from the 
pool that help to seclude it from the 
street. A red brick walk, edged with 
cement, borders it on three sides, and 
a short space back from one end, with 
the ground underneath paved, is an 
inviting semicircular garden seat backed 
by a box hedge that, with the small 
table included, constitutes a pleasant 
little retreat for resting or for refresh¬ 
ments. The pool is about 12' wide by 
24 long, and, walled and floored with 
concrete, graduates in depth from 2' at 
one end to 7 6" at the other. Here again 
intake and outlet pipes keep the water 
clean and fresh. The convenience of its 
location deserves to be especially noticed. 
In the construction of swimming 
pools it is, of course, particularly es¬ 
sential that there be provided intake and 
outlet pipes for a constant refreshing 
of the water. This does not mean, 
necessarily, that the water is to be kept 
flowing to and from the pool continu¬ 
ously, but the supply should be more or 
less changed each day. Frequently the 
pool is, incidentally, connected up with 
the irrigation system of the garden, 
when it becomes a sort of reservoir, 
and when this is the arrangement the 
renewing of the pool's water supply is 
made a very simple matter, practically 
automatically. And besides the intake 
and outlet pipes, there should be as¬ 
sured, if the latter pipe will not ac¬ 
complish it, a means for completely 
draining the pool occasionally, to the 
end that it may be cleaned. 
While concrete, cement surfaced, is 
generally employed for the walls and 
floor of swimming pools, a tile-finished 
basin is also often found. The depth 
is usually graduated, something after 
the manner of the pools here illustrated, 
and frequently a spring-board, placed 
over the deep water, will be included 
in the equipment. In most parts of 
the United States, outdoor bathing and 
swimming are, unfortunately, possible 
or enjoyable during but a comparatively 
small portion of the year. Hence, in 
order to lengthen this period, some 
builders of private swimming pools pro¬ 
vide a special system for heating the 
water. This commonly consists of hot- 
water pipes extended horizontally along 
the sides of the basin, beneath the water 
surface—one perhaps near the bottom 
and another about midway of the depth. 
In this way the temperature of the 
water may be raised to almost a 
degree desirable. 
Decorating Your Own Furniture 
(Continued from page 45) 
putting on those unbelievably straight 
lines which so enhance the appearance 
of decorated furniture, and it will well 
pay to master its use, even if a lesson 
or so is necessary. The principle of the 
whole matter lies in holding the handle 
of the brush with the thumb and first 
two fingers of the right hand, so placing 
the last two fingers that the edge of 
wood near which the line of color is 
being painted will act as an undeviat¬ 
ing guide, and since the position of the 
hand is unchanged, becoming viselike in 
its grip, it is pulled along by the strength 
of the upper arm, the even stripe of 
color appearing magically from under 
the dragging brush. 
If decorated furniture is artistically 
planned from the beginning, its final 
effect is assured. One of the prettiest 
conceits is to paint all the outer sur¬ 
face of a piece of furniture, such as a 
chest of drawers, a dull fiat decorative 
color,—blue, green, black, putty, and 
to paint its interior, which in the case 
of the chest would mean the entire 
drawers with the exception of the outer 
front, a brilliant hue, such as Chinese 
red, orange, amber, mauve, peacock; 
decorating the outer surface, which is 
the dull color, with a design formed of 
bright bits of contrasting color. 
In bedroom furniture it will be found 
effective to paint all the pieces a soft 
putty color, except for the tops of the 
bureau, dressing table, chest, desk and 
table, which may be a peacock or dull 
(Continued on page 72) 
