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Years of experience in the manufacture of these very 
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present unprecedented demand. 
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fixtures to meet the nation’s “reconstruction”, requirements. 
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How to Handle Color in Decoration 
{Continued from page 48) 
parts of purest yellow and purest blue; 
if there were no gradations from dark 
to light, no manifold tinctures and com¬ 
binations, it would be as easy to man¬ 
age color as it is to turn the crank of 
an adding machine. Color management 
would become purely mechanical. For¬ 
tunately it is not so; the day is saved 
by value and scale. 
Value and Scale 
Value may be defined as “lightness” 
or “darkness,” irrespective of color. To 
illustrate: take two pieces of material, 
one turquoise blue, the other deep crim¬ 
son. It is plain that one is light and the 
other dark. Those are their values. 
The question of value comes into deco¬ 
ration in the form of contrast. We 
may think of bringing a certain object 
into the furnishing of a room; its color 
may be entirely satisfactory, but when 
we try it in place we may find that it 
is so light or so dark that^it separates 
itself from its surroundings and fairly 
“jumps” at us. Its value, therefore, is 
evidently too high or too low for the 
room. 
Scale has to do with the divers de¬ 
grees of tone in color. Tones are the 
gradations of colors produced by dark¬ 
ening or lightening them. In the case 
of pigments this would be done by add¬ 
ing, respectively, black or white. If 
we lighten blue by adding white, or 
darken it by adding black, we remove 
it to another scale or key and we can 
preserve harmony with its complement¬ 
ary color, orange, only by adding a like 
quantity of white or black to the orange 
also, to keep it in the same scale with 
the blue. The same principle likewise 
applies to all other colors in the com¬ 
position; the whole combination of 
colors should be kept in the same scale. 
For example, it would be exceedingly 
daring and almost inevitably disastrous 
to use a pure, raw, ramping red or yel¬ 
low in conjunction with a number of 
other colors all in a more subdued or 
lower scale. The red or yellow would 
jump away from everything else. All 
balance would be destroyed; we should 
have an undigested chromatic anarchy, 
and its effect upon the eye would be 
comparable to the effect upon the ear 
produced by three people talking, one 
in Polish, one in Chinese, and one. in 
English. Each might speak his own 
tongue perfectly, but their combined ef¬ 
fort could scarcely be considered an in¬ 
telligent or intelligible conversation with¬ 
out a common medium of expression. 
For any coherent color effect there must 
be scale, that is, a common ground of 
values and comparison on which all 
meet. In other words, the colors must 
speak the I same tongue. 
Preparedness and This Year’s Kitchen Garden 
{Continued from page 19) 
hand after the pressure is released, al¬ 
though crumbling to a fine mass upon 
the slightest touch. If the soil is too 
heavy in texture it will form a mold 
but will break into two or three lumps 
when pressed; if the texture is too light 
the soil loses form under pressure. 
Soils that are too heavy to produce 
can well be lightened by adding some 
sifted ashes or clean, sharp sand. Un¬ 
der-drainage by means of land tile is 
necessary in extreme cases to reduce the 
excess of water. Soils of light texture 
require humus or decayed animal mat¬ 
ter in liberal quantities, to fill the open¬ 
ings between the soil particles and form 
the necessary breeding medium for the 
bacteria that improve the soil. The 
constant working of soils is a very 
important factor in improving their 
texture, as the air and sunshine are neu¬ 
tralizing agents that are helpful in over¬ 
coming chemical excesses and in pro¬ 
ducing them in soils which lack them. 
Securing Catalogs 
Many thousands of dollars are spent 
yearly in the production of catalog. 
The seedsman knows it is much easier 
for you and me to settle down among 
the comfortable surroundings of our 
homes and make out a seed order from 
a catalog than to force our way through 
a crowded store. 
The seedsman realizes that your suc¬ 
cess is also his, and so his catalogs are 
filled with useful information, such as 
planting tables, descriptions of varieties 
and types, cultural notes, etc. In other 
words, the progressive seed houses are 
making an effort to help you, and they 
can’t very well do this without your 
co-operation. Of course, you cannot 
buy from all the establishments that 
issue fine catalogs, but you can at least 
send for those you are interested in and 
get your order in at a really early date. 
If you would be successful in any line 
of endeavor do not be miserly. Ex¬ 
travagance is not a trademark of suc¬ 
cessful enterprise, but if you are going 
to analyze all propositions very care¬ 
fully for fear of making an error your 
progress will be exceedingly slow. Or¬ 
der your seeds just as soon as you are 
certain of your requirements. Do not 
worry about the interest on that money 
between now and planting time; seeds 
are scarce and should not be wasted, 
but do not ruin your garden because 
of too much economy in ordering. 
Ordering in seasonable time means 
that you will be more likely to get what 
you order. Seedsmen have had a hard 
struggle for the past few years to keep 
up with the demand. Prior to the war 
a great deal of our seed stocks came 
from abroad, but this supply was, of 
course, curtailed and our growers have 
spent money lavishly in trying to grow 
seeds in this country. The progress has 
been all that could be expected but is 
far from ideal, and the stocks of many 
varieties are low. Orders are filled in 
the order in which they are received, 
and the most desirable varieties are al¬ 
ways the first exhausted; so early order¬ 
ing will mean helping the seedsman and 
yourself. 
Start your gardening on a business 
basis. It is not only practical and fas¬ 
cinating but is a matter of good sense 
to keep a proper record of your garden 
work. How many tftnes have you heard 
the remark, “I wish I could remember 
that bean we grew last year,” or “I 
wonder what house that lettuce seed 
came from?” How many know when 
they sowed the seed, from whom they 
received it? Invest in a small book to 
keep the records.in, and you will have 
a better garden. 
