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BETTEF HOMES EDITION First Thing to be Considered is the Location. Two Kinds of Lily Pools, Informal and Formal. How to do Actual Construction. â€" Caution About Construction. (From Building in Canada) There is nothing that will add as much to the attractiveness of your garden as a lily pool. There are no flowers more beautiful, more endowed with a delightful fragrance or range of colors than Water Lilies.r We recommend 6 to 8 inches of cor crete for sides and bottom, believir that the extra thickness will save yC in the long run. When the concrete has set sufficien ly. forms can be removed. Rough sp> should be rubbed down and a cof Many are of the opinion that lily pools are expensive to build and reâ€" quire special care, thus lim@/ing the enâ€" joyment of a water garden to the wrealthy. Just the opposite is trueâ€"no matter how small your plot of ground or how limiied your furds and time, you can have the charm and loveliness that are characteristic of any water garden. Many of the most beautiful varieties are hardy ard with just a little care can be kept from year to year. In constructing a lily pool the first thing to decide upon is the location. The availability of sunlight must be considered as water lilies musi have plenty of un to bloom profusely. There are, in general, two kinds of pools: The Formal, which includes all the geometrical shapes such as round, rectangular, square, etc., and the Inâ€" formal or irregular shaped pools. Mix a stiff using one part cement to five parts fairly fine gravel which contains a considerable amount of sand (gravel shoulid not be over 4 inch in size). Make the mixture thick enough so that it will remain on the sloping walls without running. Plaster the walls from the bottom to the top with 3 inches of concrete. Then, immediately place reinforcing of farm fencing in mesh not over 6 inches each way) over the concrete. Cover the wire with another 3 inches of concrete and smooth witn a trowel. Formal Pools. The rectangular pool is probably the most popular and the easiest to make. : Excavate to the desired depth, takâ€" ing care not to cave in the sidesâ€" thus it is possible to use forms for the inner sides only. Place forms to set up about 6 inches, so that, wher pourâ€" ing the concrete for the walls, it will flow inside somewhat and form a lip into which the bottom or floor of the pool will knit. The floor should be poured before the walls have set hard. Farm fencing or steel reinforcing bars are advisable ana@ should be kept near the centre of the walls and bottom: that is, in the contre of the cement when poured. Informai Pools. An attractive poo! of any size may be built without forms by simply hollowing out the chosen space to the desired shape and wto about 30 inches in depth, the sides being trimmed to a slope of approxiâ€" mately 45 degrees. How to Build a Lily Pool to Grace Your Garden 0. MARTIN This Timmins builder and conâ€" tractor has built many fine resiâ€" dences in Timmins and district as weill as being cthe contractor for stores, schools and other structures tOW!1. are credit to him and the BUILDER OF HOMES When the concrete has set sufficientâ€" ly. forms can be removed. Rough spots should be rubbed down and a coat of wet cement paste applied with a whitewash brush. We recommend 6 to 8 inches of conâ€" crete for sides and bottom, believing that the extra thickness will save you in the long run. Caution. New cement pools mis. be drained and rinsed ow thorcugshly three or four times within a period of a werk or two. This will remove the alkali in new cement which is inâ€" jurious to fish and plants. Inside Walls Very Important to Home Why Special Thought and Care Should be Given the Inside Walls. (By Allan Clark) Aftrr all, you don‘t live on the outâ€" side of your house, no matrer how new, how attracrive it may be. Primarilyâ€" apart from a natural desire to have your home creditable to yourself and pleasing to nsighbors and passersby alikeâ€"you are intent on the interior of your home, to the end that it may reflect your good and your good judgment; that it*® may respond to every demand in the way of utility and beauty; chat it may fulfill every cbligation which our presentâ€"day high standards of living impose. And what are the chief elements of that homeâ€"interior on which we now lavish so much atsention? Walls, floors, ceilings, woodworkâ€"these form the background against which are imâ€" posed windows, doors, fireplacaese and staircases; the structural elements which so easily can make or mar the artistic effectiveness of any homeâ€"inâ€" terior. And it is a composite of all these varied elements that forms the stage for the furniture and the furâ€" nishings which go to complete the setting of our contemporary home scene. Wallsâ€"dia you note?â€"come first on the list of essential elements given above. And no wonder! Figure out their actual area in any room, and you immediately will realize why walls are so important. Whether you are buildâ€" ing or remodelling, then,â€" remembser that the success of your whole project may depznd on the right solution of the interior wall problem. Toâ€"dayâ€"thanks to the strides made in the creation of wallboard of various types to suit all needs!â€"there need be neither the hazard in seleccion nor the delay and muss in application, which used to mark the azrquisition of good, sound, enduring interior walls. In the old days there were successive coats of plaster to apply, with carefully gauged drying periods in between: whereas, now, a reliable wallboard easily and quickly applied can supersede the conâ€" ventional lathâ€"andâ€"plaster, and â€" still provide satisfactory and longâ€"lasting ersults. And, apart from the ease and speed with which they can be applied, vhese modernâ€"day wallâ€"boards offer possibilities for a plrasant variety of interior effects. There are, for instance, wallboards of both smooth and textured> surface which, though attractive in their natâ€" ural buff colcurings, can be finished n any Cesired colour by paint, stain or enamel: and there are other wallâ€" boards which perfectly simulate tile set. in cement of contrasting color. Shil another type of wallboard of soft neuâ€" tral hue is susceptible to various treatâ€" mentsâ€"grooved, bevelled or panelled, and stained, painted or stencilled. And there are mouldings and cornices of thse same hasic materials with which to complete any decorative scheme. Every homeâ€"owner toâ€"day is interâ€" ested in insulation as an economic adâ€" vantage, so the fact that they have insulating properties is another "feathâ€" er in the cap" of the wallboards which are available for this year‘s builing and remodelling. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO To Do Away With Odors and Gases from Drains Writing to the magazine, "Hous? Beautiful," a tells of most unpleasant odor coming up through the basement drain. He asks if whis is dangerous, and if so, what can be done about it. This is the anâ€" swer to the question:â€"â€" In rare instances sewer gases have teen known to be poisonous, and sometimes explosive; at least they are cbiectionable. The condition is unâ€" doubtedly due to a faulty water sea} in the trap of your bassment drain. Thne trap consists of a Uâ€"shaped turn in the pipe direcily under the drain, which retains enough water to form an airâ€"tight and verminâ€"proof barrier beâ€" tween the sewer and the int2rior of your home. However, due to the long periods of time during which the grain is not used, this waterâ€"unless replenishedâ€"gvaporates, leaving an open passage through which gases enâ€" ter. There are two remedies that youd may use. One is to pour a bucket of water down che drain at least onc> every three weeks. This will do the trick, but depends on thre human memoryâ€"a notoriously fallible faculty. The ccher method is to install an auâ€" tomatic trap valve which kseps the r< SOUTH PORCUPINE $ 8 *# % 9 Showing the new Hollinger houses built on Patricia boulevard and other streets in the same locality for Hollinger employees. These are large douhle nouses, fully modern and equipped for all home comforts. When the lawns are in they will make fine appearing homes. There are twelve of these Gouâ€" ble houses. accommodating twentyâ€"four families. J. Van Rassel was general contractor. and D. R. Franklin, the architect. Work was started on these houses on Sept. 17th, 1937, and completed Jan. 20th, 1938. trap filled without attertion on your part. Ycolur piumbing supply Gealer can show you several standard valves made for this purpose. Choose Wisely When You Select the W (By Mrs. R. J.) When you select wallpaper from the small sample do you know that: you citen misjudge"the size of the pattern? Theâ€"small pilececmakes the design seem much larger than it really is Onthe wall a ihree or fourâ€"inch design.someâ€" limes loses all its strength andt gives an effect of indistinct patâ€" tern, instead ‘of individual motifs. To avoid this difficulty in judgingsGdesigns when you have decided upon the paper vhat you want, buy one single roll and take it home.> Cut it into lengths and tack it with thumb tacks on the wall where it is to be hung. I is hbetter to hans two or even three strips. ‘Then sit down in the room some Gistance from the paper and you will really know what your new wall will look like. It won‘t cost you much, most of the roll wili be saved for the paperâ€" hangâ€" er‘s use. and it will eliminatr all those disappointments you might have in your selection if you not experâ€" ienced in judging wallpaper patterns. Advance Stafft Photo Engraving