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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. 1 . Outdoor sleeping becomes simple without a sleeping porch

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��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.

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