Evening star., 1923-06-08
Making the Porch at Your Home
Attractive and Comfortable

shade for a porch. The foliage gives
off GOODNESS OF its own Japanese
and often a necessary addition to
veranda furnishings. These screens
should be fitted with metal pulleys.
Wooden pulleys are useless a wire
screened porch makes very pleas
ant living room for summer. oe
able to sit on the porch summer eve
nings with a lighted lamp ana not
be troubled with mosquitoes ana ougs
is delightful, indeed. If the porch
is not very large, the comfort gained
would be well worth the cos, OF . HaS
ing a carpenter do the work. Such
a screened porch would be especially
desirable in this climate. where sum-
mer evenings are frequently SO WARM
and oppressive. ,, .,,,,+h
Perhaps your porch Is shail; "l
. staen roof that catches the drip. but
does little in the way OF protectlns
when a heavy. slanting rain drives IN.
ar the hot sun beats down on that
side of the house. If your porcn rooI
is one Of this sort, hang an awning
extending four, six or eight feet from
the edge of the roof. and notice the
added protection. seclusion and com
fort that will be secured. Sucn an
awning can be made to order ana
hung in place without much cost.
Have it made Of attractive canvas IN
a pretty stripe, so that II Will be or
namental as we'll as useful. This
awning will add to the space OF the
porch, which otherwise would De
cramped. When the awnings are low
cred one may sit with equal comtort
on the porch or on the grass; "a as ne vne
day or the mood suggests. Tne use
of such an awning on an upper porch
will provide shady seclusion and pro-
lection. 1t can be pulled back on
cloudy days All such awnings can
he taken down in the fall and stored
away for the winter.
Vustairs Vernndax and Porches.
If you have an upstairs veranda
leading from the rooms OF the second
ar third floor. you are fortunate
Here. even with close nelghbors. you
can have all the delights OF open-air
living. away from the dus. the no,s
and the public street. An a" "h'ns
here will afford sheiter ana shaue.
and on top OF the wooden railing or
stone ledge may be placed or tas-
tened boxes of plain construction,
PAINTED green or to match the trim
mings of the house. holding howering
plants or ferns and forming paFtial
screen from the street.
Satisfactory plants for such place
are nasturtiums. ivy. geranium. wnite
patunias sweet alyssum, heliotrope OF
any other constantly blooming. low
growing plants of harmonious colors.
good creeping vine to use is the
w u
grows we'll and is very pretty.
Whatever the size of your upstairs
veranda, the furniture should be
chosen with view not only 10 ar
fording comfort. but also to 1nsurlne
wearing qualities when exposed to
all sorts of weather. Willow, rattan
India cane. rustic hickory. garden
furniture if well painted and var
nished. and even mission furniture. II
finished with a WATERPROOF stain.
may be used 1t is possible 10 ouS
both tables and chairs. and even
ccuches and many other articles, IN
all these materials. The back porch
Of an apartment house can be ntteo
up and made into a cozy retreat py
means of little furniture. flowers,
a rug window box and other cheer-
full touches. or it may be made into
a plavroom space for the children.
Sleeping porches are sometimes fur-
nished with nothing but the sleeping
hammock and are simply useful
without being attractive at all, but
they can be made more than useful
hy being combined with a touch of
the outdoor living room. BY the ad-
dition OF a table. chairs and a vase
of flowers they may become really
charming little retreats, especially
when well shut in with window boxes
containing flowers and screened
above with awnings. Screens OF split
bamboo can be used here as a pro-
lection when they could not be used
downstairs. If they are not needed
the owner Of the porch is fortunate
as the amount Of air that such
screens shut off is considerable. If
a sleeping balcony has a roof to it
il would be we'll to have the sides
wire screened. especially If mosqui-
toes are troublesome.
The fragrance of geranium. mi
gnonette. heliotrope and white clover,
so pleasing to most people. is very
distasteful to flies and some other
insects They especially dislike the
odor of honeysuckle and hop bios
SONS The delicate fragrance of
sweet lavender, with its old -timey
suggestions. is specially refreshing to
most people. but 1t will drive away
housefies. Buy few cents worth
of oil of lavender. mix it with the
same quantity of water, put 1t in a
common glass atomiZer and spray
il around the rooms where flies are
and watch them depart. In the din
ing room you can even spray it
lavishly on the table linen.