SUCH STUFF AS HOUSES ARE MADE OF 7 



So much for outward effect. Woods may indeed 

 be "doctored up" to deceive the unpractised eye, but 

 usually time will tell. The ear, however, is seldom 

 fooled, and for some of our most common musical 

 instruments we depend upon the reverberant qualit\i 

 of certain species of wood. Spruce in particular 

 possesses a high degree of resonance, its long and 

 regular fibres being capable of vibrating like so 

 many taut strings. Clean spruce lumber is there- 

 fore much in demand for the sounding boards of 

 pianos and for organ pipes. The xylophone, so 

 recently popular in vaudeville and dance music, is 

 entirely dependent for its sound upon the vibrations 

 of wood, and in fact the word, coming from the 

 Greek, means "wood sound." 



The uses of wood in the home are legion: 

 picture frames, ornaments, carpet sweepers, broom 

 handles, cedar chests, curtain rollers, shoe-trees, 

 clothes-trees, coat hangers, drain boards, bread 

 boards, ironing boards, clothes pins, clothes dryers, 

 buckets, chopping bowls, knife handles, refriger- 

 ators, candle-sticks, lamps, clocks, and backs for 

 toilet articles form only a partial list. The forest 

 is the source. Our obligation to cooperate in its 

 maintenance is commensurate with the debt that 

 we owe. 



