HEN MARTHA WASHINGTON was 
once redecorating Mount Ver¬ 
non, Lafayette unexpectedly 
arrived. Guests had to be in¬ 
vited in his honor that very 
night. The repapering of the 
reception rooms was still unfinished. 
So the gallant Frenchman and George 
Washington turned to and exchanged their 
swords for paperhangers’ shears. And that 
night the First Lady of the Land received 
her guests with an appropiate setting for 
her stately beauty. 
Long before and ever since the days of 
Martha Washington, gracious hostesses have 
written their own taste and charm upon the 
wallpapers of their homes. In all the decora¬ 
tion of your home there is nothing quite so in¬ 
dividual as your wallpaper. It is the first thing 
guests see when they enter your doors. It is the 
last thing they remember when they leave. 
Wallpaper is the test of good taste. Your 
wallpaper tells who you are just as surely as 
the clothes you wear. Some women have the 
happy faculty of personalizing their homes. 
More than you might guess, they do it with 
wallpaper. * * 
Send for interesting booklet, Wallpaper, contain¬ 
ing helpful decorating suggestions for every room 
in the house. Thirty-two pages with many hand¬ 
some illustrations in full color. Sent postpaid 
to any address for ten cents in stamps or coin. 
Any store that displays this sign is an Associate of 
The Wallpaper Guild. There you will find good 
wallpapers, competent workmanship, fair prices. 
$250 IN PRIZES for the best statements in not more than two hundred words “Why I Used Wallpaper in my Hall. ” 
First prize $ 50 , twenty other prizes $10 each. Use one side of paper only, -writing name and address plainly. Statements 
must be mailed before November 1st, 1923 , addressed to Publicity Director, Room 1822 , 461 8th Avenue, New York City. 
WALLPAPER MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION of the United States 461 Eighth Avenue New York City 
