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/P"1 you, too, can have the privilege of purchasing this $1.00 value St e p -St o o l 30for c A sturdy well bra,,ced step stool 22$4" high may be used es a handy kitchen stool or as a step-ladder to reach the higher cupboard shelves. An unusual offer made possible by an enormous purchase of these stools. With the purchase of one pint or more of Jap-a-Lac Four-Hour Enamel at regular retail price you may purchase one of these handy Step-Stools for 39c and finish it to match your kitchen woodwork or furniture. Come into our store (name on cover) for this bargain. m/Mkm NAMEL 'THE QUICK DRyiNG FINISH" 1 BH -00217 GLIDDEN BRIGHTER HOMES Published iQ the Interest of Brighter and Better Homes Vol. 3 "Brighter Homes Magazine" is published for you through youf local "Brighter Homes Store," the Paint Center, by The Gliddcn Com panies, Narional Headquarters, Cleveland, O., Adrian D. Joyce, Pres., manufacturers of the highest quality of paints, varnishes, lacquers and enamels. Copyright 1930. Reprint rights on request. No. 4 b(_/AME Nat u r e is now mixing the colors for her Autumn Scenes. A few days or weeks and she will dip into her paint pots and cover the woods and fields with golden browns --riotous reds--brilliant yellows--indeed, all the colors of a blazing sunset. Thus we are left a memory that we may carry through the dull, drear days of winter, and await in patience the Clarion Call of Spring. In the modern trend of color, we but follow Artist Nature who was ever lavish with her gifts. 4,,\Ve have not always known that there are Laughing, Jovqus'colors; Quiet, Soothing colors; Dull and Som ber colors--coloi^o reflect our every mood. ~'i\'et us then thank Dame Nature for our awak ening and in appreciation surround ourselves with colors that will enrich our lives and lift our hearts to greater heights. The GLIDDEN Quality Guarantee Every product carrying the GHdden name is a Quality Product. Satisfaction is guaranteed. If you purchase a can of GHdden Paint, Var nish, or Lacquer and for any reason it is not satisfactory, bring it back and get your money. GHdden customers are satisfied customers. BH -00218 <r~r*jr -r i. vijB-.---- NANCY CARROLL "Can't" Isn't in Her Dictionary Ma e Tin e e WOULD it surprise you to learn, I wonder, that little Nancy Carroll is married and has a daughter, Patsy, who's about five years old? Well, such is the state of affairs with the curly-head who won and broke your hearts in "The Shop worn Angel"--remember how she sang "There's a Precious Little Thing Called Love?"--and whom, since that time, you have watched with increasing interest and ad miration. In private life she is Mrs. Jack Kirkland whose hus band was a reporter on the New York News when she married him, along in 1923 and who now writes for Paramount. She is a devoted wife and mother. Nancy Carroll is Irish--one of fourteen children--and her little girl days were spent on Tenth Avenue, New York. Her father, Thomas Mahiff, played the con certina, and to this music red headed Ann learned to dance and sing. Shrouding their activities in se crecy, she and her sister Teresa, unknown to Mrs. Mahiff, who probably would have spanked the two of them and sent them to bed had she listened in, got up a little sister act in which they sang lilt- ingly the popular songs of the day, and tried it out in an East Side vaudeville theater. They were aided and abetted by a friend, one Buddy. Carroll, who advised Nancy Carroll brought all that Irish charm and sprigbtliness from Tenth Avenue in New York right out to Hollywood. And how they love it! them'to say they were his sisters and to give his address as theirs. The time had come to tel] the were unenthusiastic when she did. He knew the management you see. folks! But it wasn't long before she was (And that's where the "Carroll" came from.) From one local theater to an other they went, and nobody at (They felt they'd rue it But they had to do it So they went right to it!') purring with pride, especially over Nancy who became a hit. Then love came into the life of the gay little Irishwoman. She home the wiser. Then, one mo It was an ordeal all right! Mrs. met Jack Kirkland, and "My life mentous day, they secured an in terview with J. J. Shubert who gave them a specialty number in his "Passing Show of 1923." Mahiff felt terribly. Her two lit tle girls ON THE STAGE! It was a long time before she would go to see the show and her comments began!" she says. "1 saw that nothing that had happened before my marriage mattered even the least little bit!" Page Four i j ! I i i I i BH -00219 n fust a bit rustic. Stone walls, fuzzy berets, and sport costumes somehow re wind us of Ireland--and Nancy Carroll. She left the theater for awhile, but went back for "The PassingShow of 1924' ' and danced until shortly before her baby was born. Her husband was given a job as Tom Mix's press agent at $350 a week, and all expenses paid for his wife and himself. Full of glee the Kirklands set sail for Paris where they planned that the Big Event should happen. Nancy, however, changed her mind about wanting to have it happen, so the two, after a short but grand time abroad, scurried back to New York, and Patsy opened her brand new eyes in her mother's old home town. Mr. Kirkland took up reporting again, and, after awhile, his pretty wife returned to the stage. It is not surprising that a news paper salary seemea poor pay to the former after the movie money he had been earning. He yearned for bigger and better things and dreamed of sunny California where, he was certain, gold was plentiful. Nancy too, had the same idea. "Let'sgof ' theysaid. Nosooner said than done. They picked up their Patsy and trekked west. No jobs were immediatelyforth Qne would hardly guess that Nancy had a fiveyear old daughter, but as Mrs. Jack Kirkland she is mighty proud of Patsy. coming for Jack so onto the stage pranced Nancy, working in a little musical comedy called "Nancy." But don't think she didn't have an eye on the movies! The truth is, she was flirting desperately with them, confident that she would fall in Jove with them if she could persuade them to fall in A formal garden, a floppy hat, a soft chiffon dress--how lovely Nancy looks! No wonder she is climbing to new heights as a Paramount star. love with her. You know the answer to THAT court ship! She was hired by Fox to in "Ladies Must Live." ater she did "Abie's Irish Rose" for Paramount, which company signed her up on a long term agreement. Her first big hit was made in ' `The Shopworn Angel with Gary Cooper. Now -- the Kirklands have a charming house and garden that is a far cry from the nest on Tenth Avenue. But Mrs. Kirkland de clares she takes right after her Irish mother and that "any day Jack decides he wants me to stop work and just stay home--and have ten children--I'll do it!" I don't believe, though, that there's much chance of Nancy Carroll's husband making such a request while he and his winsome wife and daughter are having such a wonderful time with things as they are. Do you? Mae Tinee migrated from Denver to Chicago to tell people what's what about drama. Came the movies and she deserted the footlights (or what ever a dramatic critic deserts) and started to tell about the flickers. Since the talkies arrived she has sold her earmuffs and is back almost where she started, but she learned much in the interim. When she writes it, we read and believe. Page Five l.1^' *.{ liiv1' . BH -00220 A House in a Garden By Delight Sweney Trimble, Architect . a bouse its a garden -- doesn't that sound interesting 'NLESS one has unlimited `means with which to build a house, he must sacrifice some thing. Perhaps certain details he would like to have, perhaps the house must be less spacious than he would wish, or maybe the house may not be entirely com pleted, but be added to later on. The best policy is to decide care fully just what things you most want, for what things you could wait a bit, and what things you could do without. Then have the things you most want, forget those you can do without, and keep adding the ones you would like to have, gradually, as you can. There is real joy in this, too. No person who has everything he wants is really very happy. He has nothing to wish for, he has nothing to try for. A new book case, cupboard, an enclosed porch, these things necessitating a re arrangement of furniture, perhaps a new chair or table--these are the things that add zest to living, keep up one's interest. This accompanying house has been planned with just such a thougnt. There are several desir- . . a corner of the dining room. . . this comparatively small house can have as many as seven bedrooms. able features which may come later. So many people prefer a cen ter-hall house. This usually means that the other rooms will need to be somewhat smaller. However, without changing the plan the house may be made several feet wider. This will, of course, add to the expense. The porch was put on the rear, making possible a narrow lot, but the main reason for doing this was to give the owner an opportunity to develop a garden. At first it may be but a stretch of grass, then, perhaps a row of hollyhocks across the back, or a shrub or two. Then, grad ually, beds of annuals, perennials, adding new plants, working out color schemes, then sitting on the porch and enjoying the fruits of your labors. This garden may also be seen from the front door, be cause the hall runs straight through with double glass doors at the end. There is another door to the porch from the living room, and a window looking out to the gar den. With a view to making kitchen work less irksome, cer tainly more pleasurable, there are two windows above the sink through which one sees the garden. The kitchen entrance and out side stairs to the cellar may be screened from the porch by a lat tice covered with vines or a climb ing rose. This porch being easily accessible from the kitchen may be used in the summer-time for dining purposes, and if you decide to en close it, may be also so used in the winter. It is larger than the room so designated on the plan and would allow you to use that one as a guest room, or a study. Just imagine! this comparatively small house can have as many as SEVEN bedrooms! by utilizing the lower porch as a dining room, the dining room as a guest room, and dividing the upper porch into two rooms. What a boon to a large family, and at what small a cost! An effort was made to make every side of this house equally attractive and it seems to work out pretty well. Indeed, almost any side might be called a "Gar den Elevation.'' i Page Six BH -00221 Il l 1 I \ A porch open to the floor is most delightful in summer, so, if you have any idea of eventually i enclosing it, why not provide for that at once and have it so con structed that in the fall the win dows may be placed in the same rebates, or grooves, or between i the same mouldings, as the case may be, from which you have just taken the screens. If carefully done, this will make a good prefer, instead, one large room and two small, .this could easily be done by leaving out the clos ets between the rooms over the living room. As this has con siderable length, enough room could be taken from the end for closets, and possibly a room for lavatory and toilet. The nicest feature of the whole house is the upstairs porch. Any number of delightful things may weather-tight job, and it is not at be done with it. It may be left i ail difficult to make the change. open, as shown, with a long <it It is usually merely a matter of removing and replacing a mould flower box serving as a railing. It would not be so very expensive to [ ing, all of which may be done Second floor plan -- rear at top. have it covered with an awning in from the inside. the summer. It would be sup The dining room has high case ment windows at the side, thus making wall space under them NOTE: Complete plans and working drawings for the bouse described in this article may be secured by writing direct to the author, Delight Sweney "Trimble, Westfield, xV. J. She will ported by iron pipes, easily in stalled, easily taken down. If you like, vou may eventually enclose against which to place a buffet. supply them at S25.Q0 a set. it and have a sleeping porch, or The first floor hall boasts of two coat closets, a real luxury. One might be kept only for the use of guests, for ao you ever remember the time when your family coat closet ever had adequate room for First poor plan -- rear at top. extra things! However, if you think one such closet enough, then the extra one may be used ror your telephone. This is surely a con venience, as everyone knows there are many times when one wishes the whole house make an extra room, or even two out of it. These rooms could be entered from the hall, or from either of the two bedrooms at the rear of the house. . and a window looking out to the garden. were not listening in on a f telephone conversation. The second floor has four bedrooms. They are, t of necessity, not very large, but it has been my experience that one would rather have a small room of one's own than share a larger one t wich someone else. If you chink you would Page Seven BH -00222 Photograph fey Mattie Edwards Hewitt In cottages and small homes faint for furniture, walls, or woodwork, all or m fart, sometimes contributes to a most charming originality and simplicity of effect. The Use of Paint in Olden Times When It Meant Thrift, Cleanliness, and Color By Gl a d y s Lil l y AWELL-KNOWN buyer for one of the world's largest Nothing more clearly demon strates the development of our department stores remarked thenational taste than the popularity other day that during the past ten which the Early American style of years American taste had improved architecture and furnishings has so much that it was now very held during the past ten years. good fun to be a buyer! This man There certainly have been other had formerly considered our na periods in history more glamorous, tional taste so lamentable that he and other designers and craftsmen deliberately bought things that more skilled, than those of the broke every principle of color har early colonization period in Amer mony, design and proportion, and ica; but while ephemeral fashions because such baroque articles ap have caught the fancy of a fickle pealed to Americans they were public and been abandoned, the sold quickly in profitable quanti early American style is more and ties! But simplicity and beauty of mpee becoming the symbol of our color have displaced elaborate national caste. It is not difficult carving and. massive construction to understand. Not only are the and we now number hundreds of simple chaste lines of New Eng attractive homes to dozens of a land farm homes and furniture decade ago. practical and lovely, but they are Page Eight especially appropriate to an in formal and comfortable hospital ity. Americans are also gratify ing a sentimental attachment for the chattels of their forebears when they carefully assemble them in collections; so there are good reproductions, poor imitations, and genuine originals of just about everything that our ancestors used during their early pioneer days in America. With the prevalence of this style of architecture has naturally come a great increase in the sale of building materials suitable for the Colonial home. Brick and wood were used almost exclusively by those pioneer builders, and in al most every instance even those {Continued on page 20) \-v: [ v't t BH -00223 Hi ! ') Truly the heart of the home . . . why not beautify it? Vit, V ; You DO spend half your Life in your Kitchen And with a little time and money you can make that kitchen so pleasant and livable. Cool gray or ivory for walls and wood work. Delicate blue or green for furniture and then a touch of Mandarin red enamel for the back of the cupboards. A beautiful gloss that makes washing so easy. Ask for GLIDDEN Kit c h e n En a me l Page K'M BH -00224 BOR What Is Home Without a Breakfast Nook By Ma r io n Pe t r i YOU, perhaps, may think oth for any of these, there is one last erwise, but we are prepared to possibility that is practically cer say flatly--and come close to prov tain to serve the purpose. This is a ing our point--that there isn't an kind of hanging cupboard which excuse in the world for your not occupies only wall space--and having a breakfast nook in your comparatively little of that. The house. We are not at all arbi front of this cupboard drops down trary about the kind, for there are to form a table, the inner edge be many types available. Indeed it ing hinged at the cupboard, the would be queer if there were not, outer edge supported on a single leg with architects, builders, manu which is also hinged and which, facturers, and household scien when the table is closed to form tists, not to speak of the house the door of the cupboard, hangs wife herself, at work on the from the top of it entirely out of problem. the way. The outfit is more than Too little room? That reason is a little decorative, for the whole not sufficient, for if there isn't thing may be painted as you please, area enough for a separate alcove, the interior of some contrasting there is the pullman type built color the better to display the into the kitchen to be considered. china, glassware, or containers on If space is lacking for even this, a its several shelves. small table and chairs drawn up And so again we say, there before a window or in one corner isn't an excuse in the world for of the kitchen serves very well. your not enjoying the benefits of a (This in spite of the jibes of many breakfast nook. It is one of the writers on the subject; they are finest means of installing some of not doing the housework.) the much vaunted office and fac If you still contend that there is tory efficiency into the home. It no space in your particular house is not merely a luxury, it is a Page Ten necessity such as the kitchen cab inet has come to be, and no less a step-saver. If you still doubt, re member the story of the woman who discovered, through the use of a pedometer, that she walked three--or was it five--miles every day merely preparing and clearing away meals. No wonder big din ing rooms and kitchens are going out of favor. It is really astonishing how littie space a breakfast nook re quires. One of the pulLman type may be accommodated in a space 6 feet wide and approximately 3 feet deep. One small alcove ad joining a certain kitchen is only 5J-2 feet deep by 6.K feet wide, yet it accommodates a table and four chairs very comfortably. Another type which serves very well and yet which takes up little space is composed of a single built-in seat with a table pulled up before it and chairs on the outside. In a corner there may be built-in seats on two sides. This is particularly adaptable to an old house, for it may be provided at little expense, and in the larger kitchens or some years ago there is always some wall space which may be utilized for the bench. Sometimes also in these older houses there is a pan try which might serve far more usefully as a breakfast nook, and you will find that the change can be made at comparatively small cost. Once you have it, you will soon find that the breakfast nook is one of the most useful areas in the house, rendering services wholly outside its ostensible purpose of a place to serve meals. It is an ideal place for small children to play on rainy days or when youwish to keep them in sight. Here they may cut and paste to their hearts' content, and many are the toys which will race across the table. To prevent the top from becoming marred a piece of oilcloth, kept solely for this purpose, may be spread over it. Incidentally the benches, if they have hinged tops j \ s I j ' j N '\ j j S | BH -00225 and storage space beneath, make efficient kitchen adjoining. Lino are seated about the table. Some a splendia place for the children's leum in brown, yellow and or times there is room enough at toys. Benches even without such ange covered the floors of both, either side of the window for a storage space may be arranged and at the windows hung straight single, small shelf,'perhaps one of with hinged tops so that they voile curtains, checkered in yel the triangular variety which fits may be folded back when cleaning. low and orange. Around the wall, into the comer. On this a single The breakfast nook also serves high above the heads of people article of bright china or metal adequately as a pantry when you seated, was a narrow shelf with a may be placed, or perhaps a pot of entertain, particularly if it is lo scalloped wooden valance board ivy at either side. If the gas stove cated between kitchen and dining of the same rich brown on which is close by, the ivy may have to be room. Dishes may be stacked were several utensils in shining replaced at times, but the effect is here or plates filled before carry copper--including a fat little tea worth this trouble. ing to the table, thus taking some kettle--and a row of richly col-' The dining alcove, and by this of the burden off the kitchen. ored places in heavypeasant ware. we mean the small separate room, Oftentimes there are cupboards Shelves are one of the most at presents a slightly different prob and drawers in the dining alcove. tractive means of ornamenting the lem. This demands a table and Here the best china, the little used breakfast nook, but they must in chairs, sometimes a serving table silver, and the table linen may be no way interfere with those who stored. (Continued on page J7) But the breakfast nook serves many purposes for the housewife personally. In this convenient arrangementfor the very small kitchen, the table is hinged at the inner end, and doses up out of the u/ay to form thefront of the cupboard. Particularly does it serve as that thing which house hold scientists call the "rest center.'* Here you may sit while foods cook or dain ties bake overwhich you must keep watch. Many minutes can be used in this way when it would be impossible to go farther afield for rest. The nook may serve also as your of fice, with a shelf provided here for your writing ma terials, account books, rec ipes and the 'like. It is a convenient place to make up the grocery list and the menus. As such, the break fast nook would be a con venient place for a tele phone, since today no "of fice'.' is complete without it -- and from here you would be able to do all of the telephoning connected with your household du ties. Consider in addition how extremely decorative the breakfast nook, whatever its type, may be. By means of paint, enamel or lacquer it may be made as gay as you desire. On the ocher hand one of the loveliest we have ever seen had woodwork, including ta ble and benches, stained a rich walnut color, var nished, and waxed to a dull, soft finish like the woodwork in the small. BH -00226 I never realized it was so easy. When I started, naturally I was skeptical of result, but when I finished Bobby's wagon, I knew then that an amateur can apply these wonderful Jap-A-Lac Enamels'and be -- Pcge Tutflt* proud of the work, f So I started in using Jade Green on the refrigerator, Orchid on the chaise longue, Coral Rose for Jane's buggy, Pale Blue for the sun-room furni ture. Then Jack decided he would take a BH -00227 J hand. C He picked his own colors and C There are 20 beautiful colors in the they're rather good. The ivory dresser Jap-A-Lac Enamels, and they brush so with a Lettuce Green trim is just beauti- easily. What surprised me most was that ful. And so we both went through the they ivere dry in four hours! Really you should house looking for something to enamel. see your Dealer and select some colors. --_________________ _________________________________________________________ BH -00228 Pace Thirteen Tbe most durable varnisli for exterior use on tbe market, absolutely water and storm proof. For wood or metal exterior doors or wood* work, window sills, boats or any surface exposed to tbe elements. Page Fourteen BH -00229 How to do it/ FOR BOYS FOR GIRLS V WHAT boy is not VERY little girl interested in a will love this Old game of skill particuFashioned Cradle for larly when that, game her dolly. necessitates throwing something? Dad or brother may have to help you make This game of Ring the Peg is fascinating. the Cradle, but when it comes to painting You will find thatyour older brothers and sis ters,yes, andyour mother andfather, too, will join in every time you set it up. Any number can play. It is simple to make and a can of 4-hour Enamel will make the board a thing of beauty. The rings are extra thick jar rubbers. These the Cradle and making the bed clothes that will be a girl's job and what a pleasant one. Odds and ends of boards sawed to the right size and nicely sanded may be used, a few aails and some glue--there is little to buy. can be finished in Gold or Aluminum Bronze to After enameling, a small transfer or stencil can make them more attractive. be used on the foot or sides of the cradle. You just add up the score you make according to the Pegs you ring, and yon will be surprised how proficient you become with a little practice. Just send your name and address to the Boys' Edi tor, Madison Ave. and Berea Road, Cleveland, Ohio, Just send your name and address to the Girls' Editor, Madison Ave. and Berea Road, Cleveland, Ohio, and you will receive complete instructions absolutely free. and you will receive complete instructions free. Be sure to give us the name and address of the dealer Be sure to give us the name and address of the dealer who who sent you this magazine and also the name of the sent you this magazine and the name of the magazine. magazine. What Is WrongWith This Picture? #25.00 IN CASH PRIZES #25.00 $10.00 1st Prize, $5.00 2nd Prize $1.00 to the next 10 winners. A Novelty Prize to Every Contestant Try your skill! How many mistakes do you see? RULES Give the name of this magazine and the name and address of the dealer from whom you received the magazine or your answer will not be considered eligible. Write on one side of the paper only and number your answers. List every mistake the artist has made in the picture. In his hurry to finish the picture he drew several things wrong and left out quite a few. Cut out the picture, attach your answer, and mail to the Contest Editor, Madison Avenue and Berea Road, Cleveland, Ohio. Remember to list your dealer and the name of the magazine'. Page Fifteen COTTAGE OR CASTLE Page Sixteen It is 'a place to live -- a place to relax and grow, to keep fit for life's big job. It is a place to nourish youthful character -- to educate and train -- to build health and individuality -- to develop the strength and vitality of family spirit. It is the setting for a rare gem -- happiness -- and as such its personality must needs exert a friendly influence. Cottage or castle, it must radiate a kindly air, maintain a fitting back ground. Preserve its youth and it will renew yours. Protect its beauty and it will repay in countless home qualities. Let cheer characterize its atmosphere and in turn it will beget cheer in all occupants and guests'. BH -00231 I What Is Home Without a Breakfast Nook? (.Continued from page 21) or comer cupboards as well. By all means let this furniture be in scale. A drop leaf table is ideal, and small, light chairs may be purchased either together with the table or separately. This makes aflexiblearrangement,asor two or three people only one leaf need be raised, with the table set close against the window or wall. ing of coffee and toast--or what you will--in a room flooded with sunshine. Starting the day right will in crease your efficiency wonderfully, and whether you are the "Bread winner'' or the "Stay-at-home," a cheerful breakfast in pleasant surroundings will do much to lighten the tasks of the day. The modern kitchen is the housewife's laboratory and ex perts are continually working on labor-saving devices to help lighten her labor. - A breakfast room will save many steps if properly placed, and if yours is a small family, chances are that before long breakfast will not be the only meal taken in this cheerful little corner of the home. If the alcove is shut off from the dining room orliving room, perhaps from the kitchen also, although this is by no means necessary, it affords an opportunity for brilliant decorations not possible otherwise. Vivid, patterned wallpaper may be put on the walls in panels against a back ground of some neutral col or. Orange paperwith bril liant birds or flowers against a cream background is lovely. The woodwork may be painted cream to match. Or the background and woodwork might be green with the wallpaper in some conventional or floral pattern. The idea is that while such decorations would be difficult to han dle and somewhat unpleas ant to live with for long periods and in larger rooms, the breakfast alcove being small may be changed at little expense when one be comes weary of it. If the walls of the kitchen are painted, the dining alcove may still be papered. Who would question the pleasure of meals in a kitchen as charming as this? With a little time and forethought, you can make your own equally attractive. If possible, the breakfast nook should have cast light. This is something ordinarily specified for the dining room, but as in nine cases out often we take our first meal not in the dining room but in the breakfast nook, or what serves for it; this is the place that should receive the morning sun shine. 'there is something soul-satiating in partak a1-,. ____ --*M,*.* Y.W* BH -00232 USES FOR FURNITURE "HAND-ME-DOWNS" Overcoming the Seeming Limitations Caused by an Overabundance of Out-of-Date Furniture By He l e n M. Da g g e t t Helen M. Daggett Internationally fenoun interior decorator, writes this article especially for your guidance. HAVE you some old pieces of furniture which have been back and a cupboard arrangement on the other side extended about handed down to you, perhapst,wo-thirds as high as the mirror. from some relatives, and although Do you recognize the type? "'still good" yet they are not up- This young lady is very observ to-date? Let me tell you what in ing and as she grew older she teresting things have been done began to notice in magazines, in by one family in particular whose store windows, that styles in fur home is most attractive -- yet the niture have changed. She be cost was very slight compared to came, in this manner, acutely the decided improvement in at aware of her own room, and she tractiveness that resulted. felt, just as you have perhaps The daughter started the mod about rooms in your home, that ern "renovating" of this home. there must be some way to im In her room there was an old bed, prove it, to make it more cheerful. with excellent springs and mat She examined the dresserclosely. tresses, but unsightly head and Sure enough the big cupboard foot boards. The dresser in her would come off. Then taking the room was one of those "popular large mirror off, she carefully set in the nineties" golden oak van it aside. The plain simple frame ity. It had two large, roomy on the mirror was in perfect con drawers in the bottom with an dition -- and she knew that it oblong mirror at one side of the would be useful. She next removed "the cup board arrangement" and after do ing so it was revealed that the cop of the dresser was a whole piece, extending across the entire length, perfectly whole and in one piece. To be sure, there were some hunks of glue and varnish around the space occupied by the cupboard, but with varnish remover and sand paper these were all cleaned off and the top made smooth. Then varnish remover was used all over the front of the two large drawers below, after removing the handles, the sides of the dresser, and the frame of the mirror. Using a putty knife, she was able to clean the old varnish off com pletely. Then she very carefully cleaned the wood surface with soap and water to prevent any trace of the varnish remover from A beautiful piece of furniture at small cost (B i You too will enjoy work like tbit. remaining and affecting the finish. After the surface was thor oughly dry, she was now ready to refinish the dresser. From her paint dealer she had purchased Jap-A-Lac four-hour enamel, Old Ivory in color. She followed che directions on the can, then with a good brush, she set to work. How easily the four-hour enamel flowed on, and how pleasing it was to work with. True to its name the finish was dry in four hours. After sandpapering a few spots to the right smoothness, she applied another coat. When this coat dried, she had a most likeable dresser, cheerful and attractive. She next inserted glass knobs in place of the old metal handles which was a decided im provement. Turning to the mirror frame, she gave it two coats of enamel and after it was thor oughly dry, she made arrange ments to hang it over the dresser. The dresser being made over she turned to the bed which appeared to be hopeless for the head and foot were "outstanding" as un sightly, uninteresting objects. But this young lady was most re sourceful and after taking the bed all apart she decided to use only the springs. With/pid of a local carpenter she placet permanently some short, sturdy legs beneath each corner of the springs. Then by replacing the mattress on the spring she had a bed, without head or foot, but a most comfort able one. She next measured the mattress carefully, purchased some inex pensive but attractive cretonne and made a slip cover to go over the whole thing. The flounces hung down over all four sides concealing the legs. She next made some covers of the same cretonne for her pillows and the bed was complete. After this she decided to have the woodwork in the room refin ished and the same quick-drying, four-hour enamel was used. When this was completed she invited the family for a grand inspection. As a result of her energy in re modeling her bedroom, other im provements were made in the rest of the home. An old commode was scraped down and painted with black four-hour enamel and mandarin red enamel on the in side. It was placed in the entrance hall and with a mirror on the wall above it, no one would ever dream of its original character. Another old dresser with square lines was taken apart, the mirror and mirror supports removed en tirely, the old finish removed and the exterior refinished in mandarin red four-hour enamel. When this finish was perfectly dry it was "antiqued" withraw-umber paint and in this way it became a beautiful piece for the living room. In case you are not familiar with "antiquing," write to this magazine and full instructions will be sent you. And so the changes went on. Slip covers were made for several chairs and book-shelves were en ameled. Another bedroom was "redone." But here the bed was not taken apart, but instead sim ple washable slipcovers were made to fit down over both sides of the enameled iron head and foot boards. The effect was very in teresting and a decided change. The simple but effective changes described here are only a few which may be evolved in hun dreds of homes, perhaps in your home. By refinishing a piece of furniture here and there, by add ing color touches to your rooms, you will refreshen your environ ment. The thing to do is to start somewhere. If you want advice on colors go to sec your dealer whose name is on the cover of this magazine. He will be glad to be of assistance. Page >(iKteen BH -00234 a The Use of Paint in Olden Times (Continued from page 8) houses which were of brick were painted. Paint, in fact, was as important to them as the con struction materials themselves, and exteriors and interior wood work were not the only uses to which this practical product was put by the thrifty New England gentry. They found furniture most appropriate for painting. The re sult or somebody's efforts with a little black paint and a Windsor chair brought hundreds of dollars last year at a sale of Early American Art Galleries. The small house is especially well suited to Colonial design-- that is, the Colonial style as devel oped in New England. In the South, where the colonists were wealthy, we find adaptations of Georgian architecture which were beautiful as old plantation houses but which were prohibitively lux urious to the average settler. It was the small English cottage with a strong Dutch influence that was seen dotting the New England countryside -- immaculate little clapboard houses gleaming white with paint and shuttered against the rigors of an intemperate clime. In the kitchens of these houses the hardy families assembled around great brick or tiled ovens, above which were displayed charming bits of Delft, pewter, copper, and brass utensils. Their furniture was fashioned from the providential abundance of timber in the native . woods, and gay coats of paint used to finish it. It was an age of sim plicity, utility and comfort. In Massachusetts the earlier houses of the Puritans were prim almost to bareness, but this gradually gave way under the ebullient spir its of the Dutch and in the later examples we find an inspiriting use of color. In Holland the members of the Delft Guild were making charming pottery in poly chrome, and those same pure yel lows, soft manganese and puce, beautiful blues and aueer Delft greens were being usea for furni ture and fabrics in the Colonics of the new world. Paneled rooms were the favor ites for fine interiors then, just as Page Twenty INFORMATION BUREAU Write to the Information Bureau About Any Paint Problem You May Have Question: The enamel recently ap plied to my kitchen walls is streaked with color that looks like it might be the original color on the wall. Answer: There are only two condi tions that would create a streaked surface. The first would be the im proper stirring of the enamel or paint used and would mean that as the liquid was used from the can the pigment would be left at the bot tom. Thus the paint taken from the bottom of the can would be a different color than that taken from the top, or Kitchen walls are subject to gas fumes or soot from the stove which often streak and discolor; In either case a wall must be thoroughly washed and rinsed before being re finished. Question: How can I repair broken spots in linoleum? Answer: Mix ground cork with glue, fill broken spots smoothly, then paint or varnish the linoleum. Question: Recently I refinished an old bedroom set with enamel, after removing the old finish with varnish remover. The grain of the wood shows through the enamel making an uneven, irregular surface. Answer: When refinishing an old piece of furniture, especially where varnish remover is used, care should be taken to sand all surfaces care fully as the varnish remover tends to raise the grain and unless furni ture is allowed to dry thoroughly they arc today, except that the paneling was of simpler construc tion and design in keeping with a farm dwelling. The natural clean liness and thrift of the New Eng land housewife was as responsible for the paint which coated these walls as was her sense of beauty. And we should not now have in the American Wing of the Metro politan Museum some fine exam ples of old paneling had not these homes been protected with paint. and then sanded smooth, the finish will show an irregular surface. Question: I have just refinished a small table in quick drying enamel. This table was origin ally finished in mahogany and I removed this with a paint re mover and applied two coats of the rapid drying enamel. This has been on for over a week and is not dry. Answer: This often happens where care is not taken to remove all of the varnish remover from the surface before refinishing. The best procedure here would be to remove the existing finish and start over as you evidently have only a small surface to handle. We re cently received a report of where a woman running out of material on a similar job poured a remnant of varnish remover into her enamel and was very much disappointed with results she obtained. Question: What colors would you suggest for an enameled floor in a young girl's room? Answer: This is hard to answer as. so much depends on the color of drap eries, woodwork, and furniture; however, a very modern trend in enameled floors allows considerable leeway in color contrast. A very striking floor and one that would match with practically any furni ture would be gloss black with a narrow stripe of orange about one inch wide placed about one foot from the base board. On floors of this kind only very small rugs should be used. Question: Have just had new lin oleum laid in my kitchen and breakfast room. Would you ad vise varnishing it now to pro tect the surface? Answer: It is not advisable to var nish or finish linoleum until it is two or three months old and has been thoroughly scrubbed several times. We suggest you then use Linoleum Lacquer which will dry in thirty minutes and give you the maximum of protection. FAIR ENOUGH ANOTHER INSECT STORY "'Sir," said the maid quite haughtily, "either take your arm from around my waist or keep it still. I'm no ukulele." 44 EAST "Say, do you know an easy way to find the horsepower of a car?" "No. How?" "Just lift up the hood and counc the plugs." 44 A Connecticut Paint Salesmen's Club member, who had spent the night ia a rural hotel In Vermont, on coming down to breakfast was greeted by the proprietor with a cheerful "good morning," and an inquiry as to whether he had enjoyed a good night's rest. "Yes,'thank you, pretty comfortable," replied the traveler, "though I suffered a little with insomnia." "You're a liar!" retorted the landlord in indignant tones. "We haven't one in the house." 44 OH! . He: "Now that we are married, perhaps I might venture to point out a few of your Tittle defects." She: "Don't bother, dear; I am quite aware of them. It was chose little detects that prevented me from getting a much better man than you are."- 44 BAD COMPANY Wife: "How did you gee into this state?" Hubby: "Bad company, m'dear." Wife: "What do you mean by bad com pany?" Hubby: "Well, there were five of us to one bottle of whiskey, and the other four were teetotallers." 44 HIS FRIENDS HELPED HIM Pat, who was moving farther out in the country, had asked a couple of friends to help carry his chicken house. They found this a heavy job, but strug gled on. About half way they set the coop down to have a rest, when one of them exclaimed, "Why, where's Pat?" "I'm all right," came a voice from in side the chicken house, "I'm carrying the . perches." 44 Mac's Wife: "I always encourage Bill to recline in an easy chair at nighc and put his feet on top of the radiator." Herb's Wife: "You must think a lot of your hubby." Mac's Wife: "It isn't that. When he goes to bed there is usually a dollar or so in small change left ia the chair." 44 TIT FOR TAT Scientist has invented an earthquake an nouncer that goes off like an alarm clock. There is a much more general need for an alarm clock that goes off like an earth quake. A young man told his girl the other night that if she didn't marry him he'd get a rope and hang himself right in front of her house. "Oh, please, don't do it, dear," she said, "you know father doesn't want you hanging around here." 44 A GOOD IRISH YARN An English politician on one occasion, when engaged in canvassing, visited a workingman's house, in the principal room of which a pictorial representation of the Pope faced an illustration of King William, of pious and immortal memory, in the act of crossing the Boyne. The worthy man stared in amazement, and seeing his surprise the voter's wife ex plained: "Shure, my husband's an Orangeman and I'm a Catholic." "How do you get on together?" asked the politician. "Very well, indade, barring the twelfth of July, when my husband goes out with the Orange procession and comes home feclin' excry pathriotic." "What then?" "Well, he always takes the Pope down and jumps on him and then goes straight to bed. The next morning I get up early, be fore he is awake, and cake aown King William and pawn him and buy a new Pope with the money. Then I give the old man the ticket to get King William out." 44 The good priest had come to his parish ioner after che funeral of the latter's mother-in-law to express condolences. "And whac complaint was it, Pat?" he asked sympathetically, "that carried the old lady off?" "Kumplaint, did yi ask, father?" an swered Pat. "Thir wuz no kumplaint from anybody. Everybody wuz satisfied." 44 Many a man keeps his nose to che grind stone so chat his wife can cum hers up at the neighbors. Ho ME is only what you make it. Make it cheerful inside with your person ality and make it inviting without by using En d u r a n c e p a in t (PREPARED) You will find it the least expensive in the end. True economy is not in cheap material, but in the Life and Beauty of the finish. Come in and ask for a color chart, our name and address is on the front cover of this magazine. Page Twenty-one BH -00236 AS EXPRESSED IN A BEAUTIFULLY ENAMELED FLOOR This is the finishing touch to any room--one that expresses your individuality. Harmonize your furniture, wood work, wall coverings and floor-- the result will agreeably surprise you. It is the modern touch. Above floors finished as follows with Ftorenamel: Top Floor Second Floor Third Floor Fourth Floor . Drab Warm Gray Red Blue Ask for GLIDDEN FLORENAMEL Pag< Twentytwo BH -00237 SUGGESTIONS AND DIRECTIONS FOR OBTAINING Harmony or Contrast with Color THE old school of color har The above deals with the larger mony is fast disappearing. surfaces. Small surfaces such There are practically no limitaas small pieces of furniture tions now put on combinations of are where the brighter colors may colors that may be used. be used. Orange trims wonder We are now in what may be termed the Color Age. It would seem that the more vivid and con trasting the color combination, the more acceptable it is; how ever, it is well to use some judg ment as extremely glaring con trasts quickly become tiresome.- fully with Red, Black, Old Ivory, or Lettuce Green. Golden Yellow may be trimmed'with Pale Blue, Apple Green, India Buff, or Orange. Mandarin Red trims well with Ivory, Lettuce Green, or Pale Blue. Coral Rose trims well with Ivory or Lettuce Green. Orchid is a peculiar color and practically The proper selection of colors for interior decorating is entirely dependent upon the existing col ors in your rugs, draperies, and any of the richer colors such as Coral Rose, Orange, Lettuce Green, or Mandarin Red may be used on smaller pieces of furniture. furniture. A harmony of color is very important in all interior dec oration. Harmony exists when there is a common color present. Con trasting colors are mainly used for high-lighting, and contrast is a color that is as unlike the existing color scheme as possible. It is safe to use a highly con trasting color merely ror highspotting or high-lighting. For example, we will take a kitchen cupboard or china closet in the dining room that may be enam eled Ivory, trimmed with a Let tuce Green. The back wall of the closet may be high-spotted with a It is well to remember that light and cool colors make things look much larger. The darker and warm colors make things look smaller. It is possible to harmonize any two colors by mixing a little of one into the other. The following general suggestions for combina tions of colors will be found effec tive: Mandarin Red. In refinishing a breakfast room set where Ivory, Gray, or one of the quieter colors is used, it may be high-spotted on the rungs of the chairs or the edge of the table with a bright Red or Green. The same is true of small furniture for the living room or the sun room. Black wicket sets lightly touched with Orange or Yellow are very effective. An Ivory surface may be trim med with Lettuce Green or Apple Green or Pale Blue. Touches of the richer Reds such as Mandarin Red or Orange may be used to This trend of riotous colors is even being used on floors. Solid gloss black floors with inch wide stripes of Orange and Yellow at the outside of the floor are not un advantage. common but as before stated, Where the background is one of the lighter Grays, such as French Gray or Pearl Gray, -- Ivory, India Buff, Mandarin Red, or these extremes in color combina tions soon become tiresome. The warm Ivories, Buffs, and Grays are still the most livable. Orange may be used. The kitchen and breakfast room Individual small spots of color present a wonderful opportunity may be used in rich Blue or Dark for you to express your sense of Green to advantage. color value. Breakfast sets, refrigerators, gas stoves, linoleum all show the ef fect of the modern trend to color. Eyen the kitchen utensils of com mon use, such as pots-and pans and cooking spoons and paring knives are being made with bright colored handles. It would seem that the Ameri can people are becoming ' `Kitch en-Conscious" and this through the ever increasing use of color. The modem kitchen and break fast room is rapidly becoming the most cheerful and pleasant room in the house. If you have not modernized your kitchen, do not wait another day. You will be agreeably surprised by the transformation you can make in this room by a small ex penditure in Kitchen Enamel and a little work on your part. Finish your walls with a warm Ivory Kitchen Enamel and the woodwork with Lettuce Green Enamel, then in the back of the cupboards or shelving use a Man darin Red Enamel. Your breakfast set comes next. Lettuce Green Enamel trimmed with Mandarin Red and decorated with small transfers on the drop leaf of table and backs of chairs will make a beautiful harmony in this room in which you spend so much of your time. If you have a color problem in your home or are considering re decorating any of the rooms or furniture, do not hesitate to write the Harmony Editor of this Maga zine for advice. Be sure to give the background color of your rugs and drapes, also furniture so that we may give you a correct color scheme for what ever you intend to decorate. Pag Tuxntrtkret BH -00238 Ripolm is produced in 13 colorsjorarchi tectural use,, and p colorsfor motor cars. Impervious to steam, salt or fresh water. Holds its beautiful lustre for years on interior or exterior ? work. RIPOLIN Snamel Internationally Known as the choice of famous architects and decorators Made exclusively in North America by The Glidden Co. I5 p s* Mo 3w > o<rsct hH (6 P3 KP. a w re p to pP. 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