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'll Hi DUIU I BOY PAlN'MiR \ The Growing Use of the Stencil FOR centuries stenciling has been formed by stenciled borders, seems an accepted form of decoration much shorter than it is actually. but it is only in comparatively re In the kitchen, formerly so drab cent years that the stenciling of and plain, decoration with stencils painted walls and furniture has lie- brings most attractive results. The come extremely popular. kitchen is really the most used Stenciling is one of the most room in the small home and can effective as well ns simple meuns of easily be rendered bright and cheery adding character to an interior. It by first painting the walls a light may lx: employed anywhere, from color and then perhaps running a tlic tiny cottage to the formul public narrow stenciled border of some ap building, because of its great adapt propriate design, in vivid colors, ability. And stenciled decoration around door casings and window is in keeping with the modern style frames. A touch of the same motif trend towards the very simple in on the w indow shades is good. all things. A small design in bright colors There is virtually no limit to the may also be stenciled on the kitchen decorative possibilities of the paint cabinet, the refrigerator, the table er's stencil. Many designs are and benches of the breakfast nook, available, innumerable color effects a chair or stool, and the same motif may be obtained and a large variety may even be used on the cereal set. of arrangements are possible. I he window curtains may likewise One very practical application is have this motif in a border, making the stenciling of a narrow border a harmonious, pleasant room. design on plain walls to simulate Color in the kitchen has become panels. Small silhouetted figures of so much of a vogue that one of the people, animals and ships arc ef leading department stores in New fective placed in such panels, de York is showing pots and puns in pending upon the type of room. bright colors to match the house Shaded tiffany panels, at the top wife's favorite color scheme in that of each of which is some odd, room. Fven the kitchen garbage stenciled motif, lend to large rooms receptacle comes in for a painting! an individual touch. I he stencil may also be employed In the case of long halls and rooms, to good advantage in the nursery or stenciling is a useful device for mak child's bedroom by decorating the ing them appear to be of better walls with a border of animals in proportions. For example a long action, or birds, or perhaps Mother hall, divided into vertical panels Goose characters. Another inter- 17(> II IE DU IC.I I BOY P esting treatment is stenciled holly hocks or other tall flowers, running up the wall from the baseboard. The floors, too, need not be for gotten. Various geometrical de signs make excellent borders or the whole floor may be done in squares. The bathroom is sometimes sten ciled in marine effects. Two very popular designs arc swans and dolphins with the same pattern to match in the towels. Sailboats, too, are pleasing. The shower and the window curtains may come in for decoration w ith the same motif. The sun parlor or the outdoor veranda is another possibility for an artistic stenciled treatment. 'I he couch cover, pillows and even the fibre rug may all be stenciled with the same design and, of course, the painted furniture should carry it. An oilcloth cover for the porch table, stenciled in harmony with the generul color scheme, is much used of late. The bedroom with its popular painted furniture can be made most attractive with cretonnes in window drapes and chair cushions, the de sign for the stencil perhaps taken from a motif in the cretonne and carried out on chair backs, dresser, lampshade and dresser cover. In the stenciling of furniture, a little care should be exercised not to overdo it. To repeat the same de sign on every drawer of a chest or dresser, for example, tends toward monotony. It is best to use one principal motif and one or two sma spac In the surfa diffic ing o corre follo 2 Th the of fl gallo Th sten With there med gree pain buff, nece colo cont a de the tory to u deep the deep as w will In nurs may suit room 177 J Tin; ixit u -i h o y p a in ip r if If the .wall has been painted in a en will be found suitable not only slight gloss or eggshell finish an for decorating plaster walls and interesting effect may be obtained woodwork but in finishing and by stenciling with a Hat paint of stenciling furniture, oilcloth and practically the same color as the other articles. side wall. This will produce a dif 'The colors for tinting the paint ference in degree of gloss betw een may be either colors-in-oil or colors the stenciled design and side wall ground in japan. Both kinds have finish, the resulting effect being been employed in stenciling and very pleasing and more subdued than have been found equally satisfac that obtained by introducing a con tory, but some painters have stated trasting color. A similar difference that colors ground in japan, or in degree of gloss results when the superfine colors, are preferable since stenciling is done in eggshell over they make the stenciling paint set a flat finish. It is, of course, prac tical to em ploy an egg shell gloss as the stenciling color over an eggshell wall finish. The formula usu ally used when an egg shell gloss finish is de sired follows: 100 lbs. Dutch Boy white-lead i>, 1M to J gals. |!j Dutch Boy flatting oil up more rap idly. Large quantities of colors-in-oil tend to slow up the dry ing. Conse quently, when such colors are used in large amounts, some drier should be added. Ready-cut stencils are obtainable from a num ber of stencil companies } gals, pale var nish suitable for enamel The flat and eggshell formulas giv 7/ur Kim Building, one of San I'rancisco s newest skyscrapers. Batch Boy white-lead was used throughout in painting this building. whose cata logs show a wide variety of designs and figures for stenciling. 178 ii a: nine 11 u .y The "Old C THE title refers to the old Iowa olic State capitol building at Iowa the City which is now being used as thaet Administration Building of the Iow a abo State University. and The ` 'OldCapitol''asi t is nowcalied buil is typical of the architecture of that "W unhurried age when man sat down arch and leisurely worked character into like his buildings; an age which brought buil forth such architectural classics as Independence Hall in Phila delphia and Faneuil Hall in Boston. ``Old Capi tol" was built way back in 1840, before Iowa was ad mitted to the Union. R. H. Little, of the Chicago Trib une, quite aptly de scribes it in his column ``A Line O' Type or Two." He says "Father Sam uel M a z z u chelli, aCath- 7Vu- old Iowa State Capitol now tration Building of Imva Slate City, Iowa. J7<1