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How to Build Your Home 5 Walls Right In spite of all th§t may be said about the first economy of a wood wall and its qualities as a durable type of construction, it is certain that in a fire wooden "houses are more difficult to protect than houses built with materials of a "less inflamable nature, as, for ex- ample, stucco or brick. In our larger cities where houses must be built very close together, the wood- en walls with wooden finish will not do at all, We must protect them with some of these other ma- terials. Furthermore, a variety of materials is necessary to satisfy the tastes of all. Not everybody is satisfied with a brick house or with a wooden house. So for many good reasons our outside walls are built of various different material. Beauty in Brick Walls Happily this country is blessed with a quality of brick and stone which is hardly exceeded by that of any other nation on earth, Our bricks especially have a distinct quality of beauty. In order to accomplish the ex- ternal appearance given by a brick wall but with a type of construe- tion that ms far as first cost is concerned is still a little below that of solid brick we have combined brick and wood. The brick is the external finish of the wall only. It does not stand as part of the strue- ture of the wall. The floor joists are supported on a framework of wooden joists almost exactly like the framework for a wooden fin- ished house. Here again in the in- terest of long lived building we must not forget that little hoard that is the key to the whole affair; namely the diagonal brace. It is easy to forget this when you build, If you do not put it in, you will have plenty" of chance to remember it. Another way to finish a wooden wall is to put a cement coat over W. J. TRICK CO. Limited REAL ESTATE, CONTRACT. ING AND BUILDERS SUP- PLIES 25 Albert St, Phone 230 V. A. Henry, Insur- ance and Loans 113% SIMCOE ST. 8S. Phones; 1108W---Office 1858J--Residence I W. J. SULLEY AUCTIONEER Real Estate Life Assurance Loans Arranged 20 King Street East Phone 1550; Res, 716) -- F. W. C. NASH Carpentering of all kinds, OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT Phone 806M 77 Lloyd St. it--a stucco exterior. We have learned how to put this stucco on so it will stay on--so there need not be any element of hazard about using such a wall. There are a lot of ways of experimenting with exterior stuceco,using different kinds of materials to which the stocco will, be applied, and using differ- ent kinds of materials in the stucco coat itself. Ordinarily home build- ing mortals rush in where archi- tectural angels fear to tread. Let your architect tell you what to do. He knows. Solid Masonry Walls Brick also can be used as a ven- eer on other bricks, or you may have bricks facing a tile wall. We often build solid brick walls or walls with alr spaces in them. Walls of this class count as sup- porting parts for the whole thick- negs of the wall. They support one end of the floor beams. Now here is the trick for this kind of construction. Yon see, for a solid brick or tile wall, there will be practically no settlement « and just a little shrinkage perhaps in the mortar joints, but with a wooden wall we know that settlement is bound to take place, because it is natural for wood to shrink as it dries out. This is, perhaps, the most characteristic thing about wood, so if you put one end of a wood beam on a masonry wall and the other end on a wood wall, the wooden wall end of the beam is bound in time to be lower than the other. The second of three articles to appear in this column op "How to Build walls." CANADA WAITS FOR U. 3. PROPOSITION Winnipeg Editor Declares St. Lawrence Waterway Scheme Will Be Favored Chicago, July 9.--Canada cannot come to an agreement with the United States concerning a develop- ment of the St. Lawrence Water- ways until a definite proposition is made by Washington, according to John W. Dafoe, editor of the Manitoba Free Press, who spoke at the Norman Wait Harris Insti- tution at the University of Chicago Thursday afternoon. "When such a proposition is made, Canadian opinion in favor of the project would manifest itself with sufficient force to ensure the necessary reciprocal action by Can- ada upon terms mutually satisfac- tory," said Mr. Dafoe. Canada's position as an interpre- ter between the United States and Great Britain is due to the fact that both countries are the chil- dren of the old British Empire, the sncaker said. "Canada's under- standing of American mentality arose from something /more than her geographical relation to the United States," Mr. Dafoe contin- ued. "We are largely derived as to blood and mentality from the British American which was de- stroyed by the revolution. Before confederation gave us the name we now prize, we called ourselves British-Americans. That is what PLANNING . ne CANADIAN HOMEMAKER "of a3 Ly wren Spork FINANCING DECORATING . FURNISHING . GARDENING oe Copyright WE AV F.H.Ponymars ARAIC, emyrey Regina o-- Snsn, " v ™ XY wilwe Gin ay L) hoy RAIN. r 4 Wh) By F. H. Portnall, M;R.A1.O, Here is an example of clever small home design, showing the possibility of achieving a distinctive and attractive result while adher- ing to all the precepts of economi- cal and practical construction. The clever combination of the living room bay window, the sun poreh, and the small térrace, forms a uni- que feature worthy of careful note. The colour scheme, too, is atttrac- tive, the dark stained shingles and exterior woodwork contrasting de- lightfully with the rough cream stucco walls. Entry is made through the sun room, which also sérves as a ves- tibule into the hall. Here, under the stairs, a coat closet is provided. Most of us possess a natural de- sire for order and regularity, and this has here been gratified by keeping the bay windows in the liv- ing room and dining room, and the doorway betweep the rooms, on an axis, or in line. Imagine how much better this would look than if slightly askew, as it very likely would be in a house which was simply "built," and not carefully planned by an architect. A rear pantry, which may be en- tered directly from the outside and which gives access to the kitchen, contains the refrigerator, and stairs to the basement, items which should never be located in the kitchen as, unfortunately, they often are. The kitchen, itself, contains a sink, cup- board, and range and gives direct access to the dining room and hall. Each of the three bedrooms, and the bathroom on the upper floor have good size clothes ciusets, and 80, with the provision of a linen closet in the hall, the important factor of cupboard accommodation is amply provided for. From one of the bedrooms a good size sleep- ing balcony may be entered, A built-in recess bath and a medicine cupboard are Installed in the bathroom, Wall paints of pastel tints were used in the interior, and with oak floors constitute a very effective setting for practically any type ot furniture. A lot of fifty feet frontage gives " DINING Ron. 11:0,14"0 | LIVING Rm We 180 106.100" " E "£ xz A Well Designed Home By F. H. Portnall, M.R.A.LC. ample opportunity for the landseap- ing on which the success of a home of this type so greatly relies, The effect of the planting will be great- ly aided by the irregular stone flag walk to the entrance, With best construction and hot water heating, this home costs ap- proximately eight thousand dollars. Readers desiring further informa- tion regarding the plans and speci- fications of this house should com- municate with the architect direct. Address Mr, F. H. Portnall, Regina, Sask, Copyright 1927, MacLean Build- * GROUND: FLOOR» ing Reports, Ltd. SLEEPING BarLcon 7:0" 1 BED Roomj Bats Ra. 10:6" 4180" {ron -~ +UrrPER FLOOR LYCETT Your Real Estate and Insurance Broker AUCTIONEER 25 King St. E.~~Corner Celina Phone 205 w PLAN BOOK pages of ideas baile JEDD O--Premium Coal SOLVAY--COKE The best fuel products that it is possible to purchase. Fill your bins at present low Summer prices, General Motors Wood Best Wood Value in this City 262 DIXONS 540 All fuel orders weighed on City Scales if desired. we are, and this explains many things; why our social and busi- ness customs bear the strong re- semblances that they do; why we get along so well in our personal relations even though in our cor- porate capacity as nations we have at times our differences. It is the _explanation, too, of wnat is to many a mystery; why with: these multi- plying contacts in social and busi- ness relationships we Canadians remain nevertheless a distinct and different people. Particularly in matters of national and political thinking. The explanation of that difference goes back nearly 150 years when 40,000 Americans turned their faces northward, ac- cepting exile in the forest wilder- ness of Canada for an ideal, a con- viction, a faith that for them and their descendants and for the mew country planned to build where must remain unbroken British citi- zenship and devotion to the British Crown." Canada as an interpreter between the United States and Britain has done an incalculable service, Mr. Dafoe said. He pointed to the suc- cess of Canada in the Imperial Conference of 1921 im preventing the renewal of the ' understanding with Japan, favored by Britain and Australia, TWO KILLED IN SHOOTING AFFAIR Anderson, Ind., July 9.----Marvin Codd, 54, shot and Eeriously wound- ed his step-daughter Thelma Mor- rington, 16, turned the gum on his wife, Mrs. Codd, 47, shot and kill- ed her, and then took his own life. The tragedy was prompted by do- mestis_trouble, London, July 9.--Rudyard Kip- ling has written to Hon. P. C. Lar- kin, Canadian High Commissioner in London, with reference to the ser- vice in Westminster Abbey on July 1 in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Canadian Con- federation and the reception held by Mr. Larkin at Canada House in the evening in celebration of the jubilee. Mr. Kipling says: "The service in the Abbey was a visible seal on all the faithful un- remembered work dome for Canada in the past by men and women who would have been quite content to have been forgotten in its superb fulfillment. The gathering in the evening, under the lights and flowers was a step on the threshold of new life and self-knowledge for the Dor minion and for the Empire--only the first step. Think what the next 60 years will bring of strength and achievement to grace such begin- nings. "As a race we pretend that the little we are always doing is al- ways done badly. So what I ought to have written you, after having seen Canada awake, aware and re- solute in her mother's house, is: 'all things considered, it isn't half bad,' a 1 A ILAVELY PATIENT " After listening to a broadcast talk on wrestling, a patient in a Mel- bourne (Australia) hospital surpris- ed the medical staff when, under an anaesthetic, he gave a demonstra- tion of headlocks, body and scissors holds, finally springing off the operating table to wrestle with an wor A imaginary opponent, KIPLING SAYS CANADA HAS TAKEN ITS FIRST STEP ON THRESHOLD OF NEW LIFE ROCKAWAY BEACH HAS COSTLY FIRE Tent and Bungalow Colonies Menaced at Famous Ocean Resort Rockaway Beach, N. Y., July 9.--Five hundred residents of the tent and bengaloy colonies were routed from their homes by fire that swept a three-block area on the ocean front here early Thurs- day. No one was injured. Loss was estimated by police at $200,- 000. The Waverly Baths, where the fire is believed to have started, several boarding houses, stores, other concessions, cottages and an undetermined number of tents and bungalows were destroyed. Men and women carrying chil- dren and whatever household goods they had been able to save, crowd- ed the boardwalk while the flames swept their homes, Six alarms were sounded, sum- moning apparatcs from ten sec- tions of Brooklyn and Queen's The blaze was under control with- in two hours after it was discover- ed. ROMANCE (Howard, Kan., Courant) Do you remember your first love affair? I remember mine, and I have always considered I handled it pretty well. That is to say, 1 didn't marry the girl, for the rea- son she grew tired of me and be- gan snubbing me and I got huffy and quit, and she married a better man and lived happily ever after. It strikes us that the summer resorts should not advertise 'good feeding." It seems as if the mos- quitos read the advertisements.-- Toronto Saturday Night. R. 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