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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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A
description
of
the
pool
of
the
Colony
Club
is
hardly
within
the
province
of
this
chapter,
but
so
many
amazing
Americans
are
building
themselves
great
houses
incorporating
theaters
and
Roman
baths,
so
many
women
are
building
club
houses,
so
many
others
are
building
palatial
houses
that
are
known
as
girls'
schools,
perhaps
the
swimming-pool
will
soon
be
a
part
of
all
large
houses.
This
pool
occupies
the
greater
part
of
the
basement
floor
of
the
Club
house,
the
rest
of
the
floor
being
given
over
to
little
rooms
where
one
may
have
a
shampoo
or
massage
or
a
dancing
lesson
or
what
not
before
or
after
one's
swim.
The
pool
is
twenty-two
by
sixty
feet,
sunken
below
the
level
of
the
marble
floor.
The
depth
is
graded
from
four
feet
to
deep
water,
so
that
good
and
bad
swimmers
may
enjoy
it.
The
marble
margin
of
floor
surrounding
the
pool
is
bordered
with
marble
benches,
placed
between
the
white
columns.
The
walls
of
the
great
room
are
paneled
with
mirrors,
so
that
there
are
endless
reflections
of
columned
corridors
and
pools
and
shimmering
lights.
The
ceiling
is
covered
with
a
light
trellis
hung
with
vines,
from
which
hang
great
greenish-white
bunches
of
grapes
holding
electric
lights.
One
gets
the
impression
of
myriads
of
white
columns,
and
of
lights
and
shadows
infinitely
far-reaching.
Surely
the
old
Romans
knew
no
pleasanter
place
than
this
city-enclosed
pool.
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