House and Garden 
Russwin 
Hardware 
Lancaster Design 
School Elizabethan 
Booklet of designs will 
be furnished on request 
Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Company 
NEW BRITAIN, CONN. 
No. 26 West Twenty-Sixth Street, New York No. 1201 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia 
Look behind your pictures where the paper is fresh. Even good wall paper 
fades so rapidly that pictures once hung cannot be changed. 
SPRING is here — it is re-papering time. Don’t use wall paper and be disap¬ 
pointed again. Use SANITAS — the wall covering which has the beauty of 
fine wall paper and keeps it. SANITAS is sun-proof and cannot fade. SANITAS 
is water-proof — all soiled places can be wiped away with a damp cloth. 
Write to our special Department of Home Decoration. State which 
rooms you desire to decorate and receive, free, special samples and 
suggestive sketches of clever new interior treatments. IVrile today. 
STANDARD OIL CLOTH CO. 
NEW YORK CITY 
You can have the cheerful rays of sunlight in your rooms 
all winter by building one of our "Brick Open Fire= 
place Mantels, Send for our catalogue. Address 
PHILADELPHIA & BOSTON FACE BRICK COMPANY 
165 MILK STREET, - - BOSTON, MASS., Dept. 46 
such as you have mentioned in these 
columns, but have not been successful 
in finding anything wide enough and 
I do not like the idea of a seam down the 
center. 
Answer; The material from which 
table covers are made, such as you desire, 
can be secured from shops where uphol¬ 
stery materials are carried. There are a 
number of places where one can secure 
the sample lengths. These are fifty 
inches square and have a selvage all 
around. We wall take pleasure in send¬ 
ing you the prices of these materials 
and the address from whom you can 
obtain the goods. Table covers made 
from these lengths, should be trimmed 
about with a gold galloon or a gimp 
showing the same colors as the brocade, 
or sometimes a narrow moss fringe—less 
than an inch in width—is preferred. 
EXTERIOR COLOR FOR A HOUSE 
I am building a house of eleven rooms, 
the upper story of which is shingled, 
the lower story is of rough clinker brick. 
1 do not wish to stain the shingles but 
would like them painted. Will you 
suggest the color and also advise me 
what paint to use 
Answer; Paint your shingles a shade 
of dull red, a trifle less dark in tone than 
the clinker brick. I am sending you 
the address of a manufacturer from 
whom you can obtain this color. The 
paints made by these people are abso¬ 
lutely good, and while they are not the 
cheapest, as far as first cost is concerned, 
it is much more economical to use a 
paint of this quality than one of cheaper 
grade, as a good paint lasts very much 
longer. Stain the shingles of your roof, 
either gray or moss green. I am sending 
you also the address of a firm from 
whom you can obtain samples of shingles 
showing the color. 
COVERING FOR BATH-ROOM WALLS 
I am anxious to use something on the 
walls of my bath-room as a covering. 
I do not wush the glazed paper. This 
room has a tile wainscot five feet in 
height. What would you suggest and 
should I paint the ceiling 
Answer; I take pleasure in sending 
you some samples of a washable wall 
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