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4 is turning green, whore the buds are bursting and all Nature is "Brightening Up." Pill your lungs with a deep breath of tho balmy Spring air, erase totally all trace of gloom from your countenance, and with a loud chortle of pure joy, pin that Brighten Up Club Button onto the left lapel of your coat. Now you're a member of the Brighten Up Hub. There's a creed or code of principles with the button. Take that creed, learn its rules and pin it up near your desk where it can't he missed. Now commence. Brighten Up. Brighten Up that critic** of yours before you go home tonight. Let us send a button to the head draughtsman, and to the stenog rapher and tho office boy, s< i they also can feet the Brighten Up spirit working within them. Now go home and try it on the family. When they're all Brightened .Up. go over to the Club and get the members there to Brighten Up. The spirit of Brighten Up is contagious. Let it spread. Next Saturday afternoon go home and fix up the yard. Rake the front lawn, dig the garden, and as soon as possible get some seeds planted. But don't let this Brighten Up spirit stop there, (let your neighlsrrs to fix up their property. Have the vacant lots tidied up. Plant flowers and vines whore once only ash piles and tomato cans grew'. Promote the Civic Improvement idea for all you're worth. Get the city to have a Clean Up or Brighten Up Week. It's good advertising, and the first step toward insur ing the prosperity of your community. Yes, sir. Brighten Up yourself, mentally and physically, your family, your community. The Brighten Up gospel will bring its own reward. 0007-SWP  `SHOULDER H AR KMS! " HE art of war is nut going to bo en tirely forgotten in. the I.one Star State. The inhabitants of the land where once the savage red man reaped a goodly harvest of hard-earned scalps, where once the vacil lating Mexican fought and lost to the sturdy Texan, are going to see to it that they under stand w'ar evun if they're never called on to live up to the traditions of their state. One of the latest additions to the equip ment of Texas in this respect is the West Texas Military Academy at San Antonio. Here the rising generation may devote them selves to the study of war and other things --to their heart's content. The building is a handsome one. con structed of reinforced concrete and given a finishing touch with several coats of ShencinWiUiamn Concrete <ind Cement Finixh. As the following illustrations show, the walls were made in sections and these sec tions were then raised to their proper posi tion and securely fastened together. This system of construction is known as the "Aiken Method," and is being used to a eon- 5 t i 0007-SWP-000102210 r ddorable extent by the I'nited Slates War Department. This .system, it is claimed, is less expensive and much quicker than the elaborate arrangement <*f forms and molds usually employed in concrete construction. Mr. H. A. Iteuler. of San Antonio, the su|iorvising architect of the West Texas Military Academy, says: "It gives me great pleasure to state that the .S41' t'niu-rrle and Crmcnt Finishes used on the exterior walls of the West Texas Military Academy, recently erected in this city, by and under the sujiorvisiion of the writer, have given the In-si of satisfaction. The building mentioned is a strictly fireproof reinforced concrete building, three stories and basement in hyight, and used as a Military .School. The cost was about One Hundred Thousand Dollars (SI(H).iKHh, exclusive of furniture and equipment. An interesting feature is the fact that all walls are built of reinforced concrete by the 'Aiken Method.' being first built in forms on the ground and after settUpg, raised into place by a system of jacks. " t 0007-SWP-00010221 OUR FRONTISPIECE HE exterior treatment of the tine home of Mr. C. F. Ross, shown h is our frontispiece, shows careful planning. The peculiar arrangement of the timber work, which ordinarily would tend to give a tall and narrow appearance to the building, has been nicely counteracted by the square roof lines. The window placing and the arrangement of the panes in the windows themselves are two features worth study. Mr. Glen L. Saxton, of Minneapolis, was the architect and Mr. H. M. Jacobsen the painter. Sherwin- Williun'x Produrt.i were used in the decorating. *** IN' PANfthlt Mr h iiiI frits A^i'lnvihiTniifr wi iv toumii? unit mj uI jnM anivtH) i l*iwi. Mr* A.M*hrnlnrvnmr wnsjiU sctttil ipiiti i curhmg' lhi* Lt'<u*iii>.`T>^vi f I'mi, iunl |>,u toml i| 1 hi* -tpuul M.urwity, lidulrm lu*i hunlnunl Urtynwilk uvtitir- niv li*i iv Uiim. A* sht1 ntwhtd a b mo t muik, h**i huwbata] nlwm-*htr up :ut * u u m> ttlirii i\ i.uni* in *amisifoMV hr<>u u mj wit^j laUinv-<Iimh v i(a]tutmuHsicvwiwnwiNl [im\\ itehitin'Utr i>cnuhthke. vIwheiintinlirmuiMHt<hiwt`U>>(i*uiwn>jsnt MramIviimMrtl' mm* fhi? "Hl-llV* mil of hl<- It ifi'. uho Uff* U-MuiMjf fai nut nml w min#t hoi u f. Mr. AM,hfibrvnn'r itbJnnrvk luoltml u> ami Hwn inw t'> UlV nirh un anKuiHJnM nmi; Vt]rvu*hi*, ini* sour life, wl luirl- \tu'jv iMWlwur the Uu iHik ' * GOOD ARCHITKi'iTRG ENHANCED BY PROPER PAINTING SPLENDID handling "f construction to meet conditions and requirements of site, cost and general lajout. is shown hy our rolor-PJate. The broken roof lines, simplicity of window arrangement ami lack of stock material produce an individual but highly artistic dwelling. Its character is notin the least d*stroyed though the paint ing, and, in fact, the selection of the white for the body and trim retains the value of I'm* walls as an unpretentious enclosure for a homelike interior. The green stain of the roof and paint of the shutters supplies the necessary color note and makes the home a part of its surroundings. The shingles have been used for the walls to suggest the cottage character and, while it is not always .advisable to paint the shingles, in thiscase such a treatment has been followed to produce the pure white tone that accent uates every feature of the construction with out destroying the unit} of the whole. The Gloss Wfi ifi1 shouldbe thinned slightly for use on the shingles. The chimney, so much a pan 0007-SWP-000102212 I 0007-SWP-000102213 of the left wall through its construction, has not been overlooked in the finishing of the house. The cement has been painted with three coats S-W Concrete Finish White. SPECIFICATIONS SmtrSWP Glow White. Trimming--SWP Gloss White. Stuk-SWP Gloss White. Blind*--S-W French Crown Green (Light). Roof-'S-W Preservative Sbinjde Stain 0-74. Porch Floor--S-W Porch and Deck Paint No. 49. Porch Ceitirnf--SWP Gloss White. ALTERNATE SPECIFICATIONS -Bto~SWPNo. 3^6. TrimningSWT Gloss White. Soah-SWP Gloss White. -Wind*--SWP No. 886. Roof--S-W Preservative Shingle Stain B-45, Porfh Floor-'S-W Porch and Deck Paint No. 49. Porch Ceiling--S-W Kopal Varnish. J i | T J r j Jt "STAINED AND VARNISHED" ' f'~"\ HE questionof staining interior woodwork, furniture, etc., is becoming Imore interesting each day. The "natural" style of finish which was so popu lar has been largely supplanted by the more attractive and in every way more desirable stained and varnished effects:. Generally speaking, stains may be divided in three classes. Oil, water (or add) and spirit stains. Most colors in the oil-stain line have many advantages over any other type of stain. There are two exceptions to this rule. Mahogany and Silver Gray. These two colors do not possess the necessary permanency if made as Oil Stains. When used on mahog any, birch, maple, etc., mahogany stain should be of the water (or acid) type or of the spirit type (preferably the former) if the greatest permanency is desired. Water and spirit stains have a natural tendency to raise the grain of the softwoods. With the harder, closer grained woods this is not serious. Stains commonly classed as oil stains rep-, resent a combination of dyes soluble in vari- 0007-SWP-000102214 1 o il s liquids each dye being separately dis solved in its required solvent and then com bined in one mixture. The usual line of oil stains embracing .S'-ft' Ha m/crott nnd If'oorfrrujt Slitins carries no pigment whatsoever, and in Its manufacture none but the best obtainable dyes and liquids arc used. tienuine I'umcd Oak cannot be secured by the application of a prepared stain. The only manner in w hich it can he obtained is by placing the wood in the white--in an air tight room or enclosure and subjecting it to the strong fumes of commercial ammonia. The better classes of Fumed Oak are pro duced by going over wood which has been treated in this way with a stain which will even up the natural variation in the effect because of the variation in the wood. This is followed by a thin coat of l*ure WhiteShellac and then waxed or given a coat of S-\V Mixxion-lue. When a wax effect is desired it is best to use a coat of Shellac, Alixxiti-/ar and then the wax. The most desirable results are ob tained. however, by rubbing AJimduv-tui' toa dull finish with pumice-stone and oil. i All stained effects, such as Antwerp Oak. Brown Oak, Old English, etc., should be fol lowed with a very thin coat of Shellac within 4K hours after application of the stain. This will add to their iiermanence. Due consideration should be given to the fact that two pieces of wood taken from dif ferent trees and worked into one piece of fur niture or interior trim will show a variance in the finished effect. As an illustration, it is impossible to obtain the same effect on mi oak as on while oak. It is therefore a physical impossibility to stain uniformly a door which has been composed of a eombinn tion of red oak and white oak. It is likewise impossible in producing such delicate effects as Silver <!ray to stain a wood so as to.obtain a lighter effect than is actually represented by the wood itself. Silver fJruy effects can only he obtained by using the whitest of oak, maple, birch, etc. Ked oak and similar dark woods are not satisfactory, and even though a temporary pleasing effect may be produced, the natural color of the wood will in the end predominate, 4 0007-SWP ANOTHER rONTRlM'TlON FROM TEX A? R. J. H. BOTHWF.L1/, Architect, of Tyler, Texas, is largely responsible for the attractive little home shown on the opposite page, The bungalow has been much admired by the citizens of the r progressive Texas town, both for its care fully planner! arrangement and for the good taste displayed in the exterior and interior decoration. Mr. S. Logging was the building con tractor, Messrs. Taylor & Arratc did the deco rating, Shenri/1-lVilfiainx f'riulurfx being used exclusively. * * <1 THK COVER DESIGN i ir OW do you like it? We must con fess we've "kind of stuck on it" our selves. and the staff all the way from the head pressman to the office boy thinks it a peach. A couple of hundred extra fine prints have been made of the design. These prints are without the lettering used on the cover, and will be splendid for framing. Write us for one. 0007-SWP-000102216 i I i-s t h e otmnsr IIII J If. Yl'lham- Did ituU i 1t1".tiff mi hli,if; iind bt'w. That tAif him fy tturld d dark Ut <*# * tj *wyim ihtt nriintr yiut do. JltUt tuilki Up iAIHtl fn . /Mmi" *ht' hut HKMHTKS' t / If* aW tn u*>Hr -iti, tin tiip. r'"' fcti'in 1'iwt i ttrrn d'<Hr *4in t /<* i/n &, *ScA,r mj * iin(i uhxLi >tti htu,ittiul *itH, And h 11 Itfc? a h tmt > f^i'cr ^o* /i` MtiaHrh.v t r fo tminfhmhi "ft" Km w*tr daunt fhvt/ ;*i/ in tf'r` kidnf of it tarihii < tiutpn * Wkih tiiHi'f iI'iiUg Kf>.ifn wilt Ihtuk tHut'vt inmi* .4/V pi.it Man .> ,tU\U>a<f a thr,ot mm o' HUHlltniS t'f* i m-ndf i f\iuf J-<nt n, tv t dutt/ht /** //#' H'At ii ft* h*(/ *7 Aii j* f A*itut* fn i|/i', * i/V a rti//i Aitnft v fn iu<, fu,i`i< i ti/ftt M fv * /A#iA /A* i# - r ft itt */ *"lbt. ntwnrn:\ rr .So iir/ n/i tk" tftty Uii'H on*I ih i/i hu fUt injit. Amt rrou nd*r /Atn'x titf moui o thut. J'htu h iff hunt! tip th> r ii.'i iim. that ut ifn* la it Tujtfiki tr IA* Ao Mmi >ti i timiHffa iniy. ItRUtHTK.'C U* H I 0007-SWP-000102217 Time flies. June First ap proaches all too fast. And on June First the great SPECTRUM Literary Contest closes, and the lucky win ners are declared. Many and varied have been the contributions, but there is roomfor more; many more. You are clever, you are brilliant, you have a few minutes now and then; time enough to earn that first prize of ten dollars. What matters it if you are not of a literary turn of mind. The idea's the thing. So turn on the spirit ofthe muse. Dash off something light and humorous and send it in. Make it in anyform you like, a limerick offour lines will stand as great a show as a story of five hundred words. And remember there are more prizes than one, so send it in, send it in. 16 > WITH EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES By Jo h n T. Mc Cu t c k e o n Il, I, r. Hi-CutrU-. I V t mi* is viean-Up Week?" By: "Aw' mv paw don'f hcMeTM TM these reform movement*. He bays these, fads make him tired ! " Courtesy "The Chicago Tribune." 0007-SWP-000102218