SUCH STUFF AS HOUSES ARE MADE OF 3 



tionary and pre-Reyolutionary times, the Washing- 

 ton homestead at Mount Vernon and countless 

 others throughout the older section of our country 

 stand in silent testimony. With the conflicting at- 

 tractions of baseball and the "movies" we now feel 

 that we cannot afford to take the same time and 

 pains in building construction as did our forefathers, 



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We people of the United States consume every year enough wood in 

 the form of lumber to build and furnish a double row of five-room 

 houses which, spaced one hundred feet apart, would extend all the way 

 from New York to Seattle, south to San Francisco and back again via 

 New Orleans. 



but we have recently discovered a few secrets that 

 they did not know. How many people have repeat- 

 edly re-floored a porch, built new steps and renewed 

 sills as part of the supposedly necessary upkeep of 



