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House & Garden 
^Having company 
without the usual bother 
The joy of having company is in doing 
away with the annoyances that it usu¬ 
ally means. The modern Davenport 
Bed makes visits a pleasure for hostess 
and guest alike. 
By day, the Davenport Bed is a most 
beautiful davenport; a tribute to your 
good taste; luxurious, in harmony with 
your furnishings and your decorative 
scheme. By night, in the same spot, 
it becomes a bed —a real bed —in which 
the guest finds complete relaxation and 
rest. 
C< pyright 1923, Davenport Bed Makers of America 
1 lie transformation is made in a mo¬ 
ment, and with ease. The bedclothes 
are in place. The bedspring is resil¬ 
ient. The mattress is as easily aired 
as in any other good bed. In the 
morning, the Davenport Bed is re¬ 
stored in a few moments to its day¬ 
time appearance—a beautiful daven¬ 
port, giving no hint whatever of its 
usefulness as a bed. You can, if you 
wish, have chairs or rockers to match. 
The Davenport Bed is adding com¬ 
fort to millions of good homes and 
apartment hotels. From hundreds of 
styles in which Davenport Beds are 
made, your furniture store has selected 
a variety. Ask to see them; have the 
store demonstrate the excellent fea¬ 
tures that make the Davenport Bed a 
worthy addition to your home. 
Our brochure , showing a large number of 
styles , is yours for the asking—write for it. 
DAVENPORT BED MAKERS 
OF AMERICA 
Standard Oil Building, Chicago 
Slip covers for chairs are smarter when made in two 
sections. They are slit to allow for the arms and 
held with snappers. From Fakes, Bisbee, Robertson, Inc. 
Well-Dressed Furniture 
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ings into an interior, cool, colorful and correct the mistakes. When the cover 
utterly charming, at comparatively fits perfectly, cut the chintz from this 
little expense. pattern. Where there is a figured design 
The first requisite of a slip cover great care must be taken to center the 
is that it shall fit well. The most pattern. For instance, if there is a 
beautiful fabric in the world is of very basket of flowers or some one decided 
little account if it is made into an motif, this should be in the center of 
ugly, ill-fitting cover. It is easy enough the back of the chair and in the center 
for slip covers to look dowdy. Great of the seat cushion. And all designs in 
care must be taken in the making if fabrics should point upwards. Slip 
they are to have the smart, prim ap- covers can be put on and taken off 
pearance that makes them such a gay more easily if they are slit up the back 
addition to a room. It is much the and fastened with snappers, 
same with a slip cover as with a For the ordinary Lawson type of 6' 
tailored frock. Everything depends on sofa it takes 11)4 yards of 50" plain 
the finishing. Only the most careful material to make a slip cover. In a 
attention to detail—to stitching the figured fabric about thirteen yards are 
seams absolutely straight, to turning required. This includes either a box 
the corners in the most precise manner, pleated or gathered ruffle around the 
to seeing that the flounces are straight, bottom. If one prefers a slip cover 
and, if box-pleated, that the pleats are without this ruffle, three yards less of 
exactly the same width, insures a well- material are needed. These valances 
tailored look and not that fatal “made around the bottom give a certain snap 
at home” appearance. to a chair and usually measure 7" wide. 
Good upholsterers cut slip covers If box pleated the pleats are two inches 
right on the furniture and it is impos- wide and the whole ruffle is from I" 
sible to lay down any hard and fast to 2" from the floor. In measuring for 
rule as to how to cut them. Each a box pleated ruffle, allow three times 
piece of furniture must be fitted quite the length of the space the ruffle is to 
as carefully as one fits a frock to a occupy. For a gathered ruffle, about 
person. If expensive material is used, two and a half times. If the seams are 
it is a good plan to cut the cover first corded in a contrasting color, three 
in muslin. Pin this all together care- quarters of a yard of 50" material are 
fully, allowing enough for seams and in needed and one yard of 36". I would 
the case of an upholstered sofa or chair, suggest a prim, pleated ruffle on all 
about 5" on either side and in the furniture except that intended for a 
back to tuck in. This is the time to (Continued on page 124) 
