March, 1915 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
20 - 
The Uses of Woodwork in 
Interior Decoration 
(Continued from page 169) 
who, writing in the Age of Augustus 
Caesar, warned against the affectation of 
heavy plaster cornices, lest they fall. But 
Adam did not use the Lime-Stucco of the 
Ancients, but a sort of dead Plaster of 
Paris, mixed with fibre and glue to hold 
it together — a poor material, one would 
think. 
It might be interesting to digress some¬ 
what on this general subject. Lime, Plas¬ 
ter, Stucco, Mortar, Plaster of Paris, Ce¬ 
ment, Concrete — these names are general¬ 
ly used so loosely and incorrectly that it is 
difficult to make oneself understood in 
writing about them. The other day a 
client spoke to me about disliking con¬ 
crete houses. I completely misunderstood 
him, rather stupidly, I confess, but, as I 
disliked what I understood by “concrete 
houses,” too, it did not matter. Of 
course, he meant a house with a facing 
of cement and sand, generally called a 
“stuccoed” house, or a “rough-cast” 
house; structurally its walls might be of 
hollow tile or wood-frame and wire lath, 
or brick, or anything else. He did not re¬ 
fer to the construction. 1 thought he 
meant a house with walls built of concrete, 
the sort of a house that Edison has so 
glowingly recommended, cast in one piece 
— walls, floors, roof and all, in one day, 
in a series of iron moulds — or the house 
built of great concrete slabs, that the Sage 
Foundation first tried at Forest Hills 
Park, and discarded later, preferring 
houses of other material. 
This is merely a case in point; let us 
examine what these terms generally are 
understood to mean by architect or 
builder. There are only three active ma¬ 
terials involved — Lime, Plaster of Paris, 
Cement. Each is obtained by roasting or 
calcining rock; each is mixed with sand 
and water before using, and all harden in 
what seems at first a more or less similar 
way. As to their differences, here they 
are: 
Lime: Made from roasting Marble, 
Calcite, Limestone, Chalk, Oyster Shells, 
which, chemically, are all Calcium Car¬ 
bonate, or Ca Co 3 , differing among them¬ 
selves only in their form of crystalization. 
By this process Carbonic Acid Gas, or 
“C 0 2 ,” is driven from the stone and leaves 
the pure white material we call Quick¬ 
lime, unslaked lime, or, chemically, Cal¬ 
cium Oxide or CaO. 
Quicklime longs for its old companions; 
its hands are outstretched ; leave it alone, 
exposed to the air, and quietly, unob¬ 
trusively, it seizes every molecule of Car¬ 
bonic Gas that comes near, and before we 
are aware of a change, behold our sack of 
Quicklime has become crumbly, air- 
slaked Lime! Of no more use is it for 
building; it might be used as a fertilizer or 
to make an indifferent, poor whitewash, 
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APPLIED’ TO 
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