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PROPER TREATMENT 
for 
FLOORS.WOODWORK 
and 
furniture 
'Price 25* 
.JOHNSON't SON, 
Wood finishing Authorities 
racine.wis.u.s.a. 
FREE—This Book on 
Home Beautifying 
This book contains practical sug¬ 
gestions on how to make your 
home artistic, cheery and invit¬ 
ing. Explains how you can easily 
and economically refinish and 
keep furniture, woodwork, floors 
and linoleum in perfect condi¬ 
tion. We will gladly send it free 
and postpaid for the name of the painter you usually 
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JOHN SON’S 
Pas/e - Liquid " Pon dered 
POLISHING WAX 
Every room needs the brightening touch of Johnson s 
Polishing Wax. It will rejuvenate your furniture, wood¬ 
work, floors and linoleum, and give your home an air of 
immaculate cleanliness. Johnson’s Polishing Wax im¬ 
parts a velvety, artistic lustre of great beauty and dura¬ 
bility. It gives a hard, dry, oil-less polish which will not 
collect dust or show finger prints. 
Johnson’s Liquid Prepared Wax is 
the ideal furniture polish. It im¬ 
parts a clean, dry, lustrous polish 
to which dust and lint cannot 
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the varnish, adding years to its life. 
Johnson’s Polishing 
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put up in three 
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and Powdered. Use 
Johnson’s Paste Wax 
for polishing floors 
of all kinds—wood, 
tile, marble, compo¬ 
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Use Johnson’s Liquid 
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graphs, woodwork, linoleum, leather, shoes 
and automobiles. 
Johnson’s Powdered Wax makes PERFECT 
DANCING FLOORS. 
Your linoleum will 
last longer and look 
better if you polish 
it occasionally with 
Johnson’s Prepared 
Wax. Johnson's 
Wax prevents 
cracking and blis¬ 
tering-brings out 
the pattern and 
color and protects 
linoleum from wear. 
For Sale at All Good Stores 
S. C. JOHNSON & SON 
“The Wood Finishing Authorities” 
Dept. H.G. 9 Racine, Wisconsin 
(Canadian Factory—Brantford) 
Aii uncut edging for curtains in shell design has a 
ground in gold color and a pattern in white and blue. 
Courtesy of Edward Maag 
Taste in Curtain Trimmings 
(Continued from page 44) 
beautiful things suggestive of the jewel 
setter’s art in terms of weaving. 
With such a treasure store to draw 
upon it is now possible for the modern 
householder to have curtains correctly 
and charmingly finished. Trimming 
makers of today have every facility for 
turning out marvels of color and weave 
and possess an amazing ability for re¬ 
producing the most intricate patterns 
in a short space of time. Many stand¬ 
ard designs are carried in stock for 
immediate use, and others can be dyed 
to sample in twenty-four hours, while 
specially ordered galons or fringes are 
finished in a few weeks. 
From this it follows that good or 
bad trimmings are up to the decorator 
in the final analysis. Happily for all 
concerned, the day is past when brassy 
looking tinsel galon and fringe to match 
or a meaningless gimp was the stand¬ 
ard for curtains and furniture. Tinsel 
still plays its part as an accent in 
trimming, and so used provides a much 
needed contrast otherwise unobtainable, 
but this modern version is a far cry 
from the ineffectual and tawdry copies 
of Renaissance galon of a generation or 
two ago. 
It is not easy to generalize on where 
to use a fringe and where a galon. So 
many conditions and circumstances 
must be considered that here—as every¬ 
where—the saving grace of common 
sense should be relied upon. Just as 
walls of stone or rough plaster demand 
strongly patterned and colored stuffs 
for curtains, so does it follow that the 
curtains themselves should be finished 
with an elaborate tasseled trimming 
and a possible line of openwork galon. 
On the other hand, the wide simple 
surfaces so popular at present with their 
air of repose and spaciousness call for 
curtains of shimmering satin or crisp 
taffeta, striped or plain, outlined and 
finished in a delicately woven trim¬ 
ming reproducing the color of the mate¬ 
rial or a color in pleasing contrast. Or 
perhaps two or more colors arranged 
in separate little blocks or alternat¬ 
ing threads will give the needed deft 
touch. 
Gorgeous brocades in the manner of 
18th Century Venice may well be 
trimmed with a woven sea-foam, opal¬ 
escent and sparkling; whereas sur¬ 
roundings redolent of the classical 
severity of the Brothers Adam natu¬ 
rally require quite a different curtain 
treatment. 
Chintz, an essentially informal fabric, 
offers a far freer scope in the matter 
of finish. Ribbons as bindings, ruffles 
or ruchings are extremely attractive but 
perhaps do not achieve quite the same 
air of good breeding as the quaint old 
ball or tassel fringes prized by our 
grandmothers. The delightful old 
binding tapes in gay stripes are also 
finding their way into popular favor 
with present day lovers of chintz who 
appreciate a note of quaintness. 
At the top is a quaint Victorian tassel fringe in blue and yellow. 
Much of the effectiveness of the narrow trimming in the center 
is due to its being black and white. The wide openwork galon 
at the bottom is of white silk or it may be dyed to match any 
sample 
