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ning " colors. They arc loud and obtrusive. A great deal 

 of industrial art has been expended in producing these pa- 

 pers. But this very art has had a better training, and is now 

 producing papers in far better tone; the low reliefs and neu- 

 tral tints will finally prevail. The next step for the more 

 costly interiors will be the finest finish in native woods. 

 This finish need not be costly. That depends not upon the 

 material, but upon the amount of work put upon the native 

 woods. Of course there can be a great deal of costly carving, 

 which, if it does not produce the best artistic effect, will at 

 least serve to catch and hold all the dust that may be floating 

 around the room. 



" The area of redwood timber in California does not vary 

 greatly from the original area of the black walnut timber belt 

 in northern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. That area has been 

 now so circumscribed that black walnut has become as costly 

 as the hardwood timber from the tropics. Precisely the 

 same processes are going on in California. Redwood is used 

 for fencing material, for the covering and interior finish of 

 wood houses, for barns, and largely for bridges, especially for 

 the sills and sleepers, which resist decay. An instance was 

 recently cited where the owner of a large farm, being about 

 to build a house, discovered that the redwood boards which 

 had been employed to a large extent for fencing his land 

 would make an excellent material for. the interior finish of his 

 dwelling. Many of these boards had the handsome wavy 

 grain frequently noticed in the butt logs and stumps of red- 

 wood. The boards were well seasoned. The result was that 

 the house-builder secured an extra fine finish for the interior 



