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Made by Sanford Mills 
N O OTHER upholstery fabric combines 
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upholstery in the leading hotels and households of 
America— practical — economical — luxurious. 
Upholstery of Chase Mohair Velvets lives through a 
generation of severe use—the patterns enchant with 
their harmonious and unique colorings—no wearing 
out in spots—a comfortable, sanitary covering for 
worth while furniture. 
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Boston 
NEWYORK DETROIT CH1CAOO 
Leaders in Manufacturing Since 1847 
Chase Mohair Velvets 
look their best at all times, 
and require a minimum 
amount of care: fast colors 
and scores of shades, tapes¬ 
try effects, stripes and fig¬ 
ure designs to choose from. 
The Possibilities of Wall Board 
( Continued, from -page 29) 
are filled with fish glue or Portland 
cement and sandpapered and the whole 
on being tinted presents the unbroken 
appearance of a plastered wall. 
The common criticism advanced 
against wallboard is that it buckles and 
bulges. The better grade boards are 
guaranteed against absorbing moisture 
and the manufacturers advise nailing 
them into place according to their direc¬ 
tions. However, the' best panel work is 
always loose, and architects usually pre¬ 
fer to put up panels so they can slide 
in the grooves of the stiles and rails. 
These grooves should be deeper than 
necessary, so the panels can pull in or 
push out. 
Small Home Uses 
For bungalows and country houses 
wallboard may be used to considerable 
advantage. There are a great many 
very charming small homes where it has 
been effectively employed throughout. A 
different scheme of paneling in different 
rooms produces a pleasing variety. For 
the dining room and halls there comes a 
grained board which gives the effect of 
wood panels, and there is a tiled board 
to be white enameled for kitchen and 
bathroom. The board is also used for 
the ceilings and it is, in addition to 
being warm, both clean and durable. 
It is an especially attractive proposi¬ 
tion for log bungalows up in the moun¬ 
tains. Exposed studding is never very 
inviting nor particularly clean, and the 
time and labor saving qualities of wall- 
board commend it particularly. After 
it is up you need not worry about leav¬ 
ing the house untenanted six months of 
the year. It will not crack from cold. 
In old or made-over houses wallboard 
has a great many uses. It lends itself 
especially to the treatment of the attic 
where the odd angles and deep rafters 
give you an opportunity for making pic¬ 
turesque rooms. Wallboard is the sim¬ 
plest route to the billiard room you had 
often thought of having up there, or the 
sewing room, or the extra study for the 
older children. 
In one home where the raw rafters 
were always an annoyance, the attic was 
transformed into a light gray enameled 
source of delight in this way. The raf¬ 
ters, as in most attics, slanted from the 
floor right up to a point in the roof, 
where they met. Two feet in from the 
side wall of the house a false verti¬ 
cal wall was built of board. The floor 
space cut off by this wall from the rest 
of the room was used as a storage space 
to be reached by sliding doors. This 
vertical wall was 4' 6" in height. By 
building it further in, you may make it 
6' high. 
Above this vertical wall the board 
followed the slant of the rafters and was 
nailed directly over them. At a desir¬ 
able height from the floor the board 
was run across parallel to the floor, 
making a false ceiling. The whole tiring 
was then painted gray and enameled. 
An odd effect may be obtained by nail¬ 
ing the board in between, instead of 
over, the rafters, about 6" in, making a 
beamed ceiling. 
One clever use of wallboard was in a 
remodeled house where the children’s 
bath was reached through one of the 
bedrooms. As the children grew older 
this became inconvenient. The bedroom 
was a large one. Part of it was walled 
off with wallboard, making a passage¬ 
way on which both bedrooms and the 
bathroom opened. After the bedroom 
was redecorated the change was not per¬ 
ceptible. 
The opposite was done in the case of 
a square passageway between two girls’ 
bedrooms. This was given a front wall 
and' the two bedroom doors opening into 
it made it a splendid accessible closet 
for the growing wardrobes of two grow¬ 
ing daughters. 
In the present enthusiasm for exten¬ 
sive canning, a preserve room becomes a 
necessity. It is easy to make one out 
of wall-board and a corner of the cel¬ 
lar. By enclosing one of the cellar 
windows this room can be kept as cool 
as desired. 
Wallboard over a wood frame can 
also be used for building additional 
closets in rooms. 
War Garden Activities in the Small Town 
(Continued from page 36) 
were stored in the best approved fash¬ 
ion—sweet potatoes in a warm dry place, 
carrots, beets and turnips in dry sand, 
potatoes and cabbage in a cool, dark 
corner, celery in trenches, French endive 
and rhubarb transplanted to covered 
pots in the cellar. Many of these women 
will not spend a dollar on either fruits 
or vegetables this whole winter! I really 
feel tempted to call Mr. Hoover’s atten¬ 
tion to the town. 
In another small community, interest 
centered on gardens for the public school 
children. While these were conducted 
on home grounds, by the boys and girls 
themselves, seed was furnished them 
practically free, and a committee of the 
elders directed the work. A good vege¬ 
table exhibit, with suitable prizes, 
rounded out their efforts. The adults 
planted, too, as never before, and were 
able later to contribute liberally of their 
bountiful crops to the nearest army base 
hospital. These older gardeners also 
planned for a lecture on reconstruction 
work in the devastated districts, the 
proceeds realized to be applied to that 
purpose. 
In a certain small Pennsylvania town, 
the women with the help of the Boy 
Scouts started a Garden Club Pre¬ 
paredness contest. War gardens cover¬ 
ing thirty-six acres in one parcel — eleven 
hundred school gardens—besides three 
acres in a public park, were cultivated 
in addition to an unusual number of 
home gardens that were said to have 
increased in production at least one 
hundred percent over former years. 
It has been interesting to note that 
people who went into gardening last 
year—whatever their success — are more 
enthusiastic now than ever. Even fail¬ 
ures seemed to inspire new efforts. 
While in many cases the purpose at first 
was to reduce the cost of the family 
table, later even those who hired help 
brought their produce to the highest 
local price, still maintained the venture 
had paid. Not only were better, fresher 
vegetables secured for daily use, but a 
part of the demand on the general mar¬ 
kets was cut off, leaving that much 
more for the world’s supply. 
With the coming year there will be 
greater necessity for each family to try 
to meet its own requirements. One of 
the Hoover food experts recently wrote 
me, “There is going to be more need 
for gardens this spring than ever be¬ 
fore !” We can profit by last year’s ex¬ 
perience, by the success and failures of 
those around us. We can get an earlier 
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