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but the paint is apt to peel off in time, owing to the oily and the work is not seriously marred by chipping. This 
nature of the plastic material. A better plan is to make up does not mean that there can be no shading of colors. On 
separate batches of putty individually tinted, and then to the contrary, if the putty is fresh and soft one color may be 
A cheap vase becomes an attractive ornament A pebble iacrusted jug A beer mug covered with pebbles 
use the tinted material in modeling the design. The faults merged into another with a facility almost equal to that 
Gf superficial coloring are thus avoided. Leaves are green of painting in oils. Of course, the effects obtainable depend 
through and through, roses red through and through, etc., entirely upon the artistic ability of the individual. 
Poster Wall Papering 
By Beryl King 
eae RE it not so old and threadbare a good — such important things as wall paper; and so the dingy room 
opening sentence for the following story had, perforce, to retain its dinginess. One day the girl had 
would be an idea and she proceeded 
the quota- to carry it out without 
tion “‘Ne- losing a minute; for she 
cessity 1§ was that kind of a girl. 
the moth- She followed her luminous 
er of invention.”’ Not that idea to the offices of vari- 
we believe this quota- ous steamship companies 
LOM tOuN Dew athens | miNS and other establishments 
everyone knows. there where handsome posters 
are hundreds of in- are given away gladly for 
ventions that are  abso- the asking. Soon she had 
lutely unnecessary and accumulated a large supply 
were born of the conceit or of pictures. The pictures 
were not cheap - looking 
chromos, for these steam- 
ship companies employ the 
best of artists to design 
their posters. They are in- 
tended to attract attention 
.and are sent all over (me 
world in lithograph form. 
Some of them are veritable 
works of art, depicting 
scenes in the countries to 
which the ships of the com- 
pany carry passengers. 
Others contain fanciful 
views by artists of re- 
nown. 
y] 
ignorance of some. de- 
luded inventor. A glance 
through the Patent Office 
Gazette will prove that 
this is so. However, it is 
aptact that) many, it not 
most, of the best ideas 
have been evolved under 
stress of circumstances. 
The following is a case 
in point. 
The time had arrived 
when the girl’s own par- 
ticular room needed paper- 
ing. Her mother realized 
it, and the girl knew it 
only too well. But it was With these pictures the 
not a time when money girl locked herself in her 
could be spared for even Smoothing out the poster room. T hem she pro- 
