268 MAKING AND BEAUTIFYING THE HOME 



6. Discuss the wall papers and decorations used in the different 

 rooms. 



7. Get furniture catalogues and make selection of ideal furnish- 

 ings for each room in the house. 



8. Report on your project in class. 



Homes of to-day. We know that homes of the present 

 day are very different from what they were when primi- 

 tive man lived on the earth. The complexities of mod- 

 ern life have made so many demands that now the home is 



a very different place 

 from what it was even 

 a generation ago. No 

 two homes are alike. 

 Each one should be 

 suited to the locality 

 and to the people who 

 live in it whether it be 

 on the farm, in a town, 

 or in the big city. One 

 of us may live in a 

 frame house, another in 

 a brick row, and a third 



Annual rings shown in cross section of wood. 



in an apartment or 



tenement, but wherever we live, our home is the place where 

 we sleep at night, where we eat, and best of all, where 

 family life centers. The purpose of this chapter is first, 

 to learn something about the materials out of which our 

 houses are constructed, and then something about the 

 decoration of the home and its grounds. 



Building materials. If you make a list of all the 

 materials that are used in building a house you find that 

 wood, stone, glass, concrete, and metals have an important 



