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. Painted ; formal ard are charmir ator touchs: nondescript guished het had to be more comm inlay or sk tCok to u: 18th ceont: ture were grandest ever, for as well ¢f pain exXxperl : Fine feathers m birds, but a gcod : go a long way tow: piece of furniture ir ed furriture need informal or peasan! member that many designs on their | chairs to add z6 eottages and hcoms MAKING SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING VIA THE WAY OF A LADY WITH A CAN OF PAINT. A Paint Brush and an Old Piece of Furniture Makes an Arit a Houseâ€"Suggestions for Doing Over Old Furnitureâ€"Someé Decorations. HYDRO ELECTRIC FPOWER COMMISSION A charming ture painted very clever 3 # ntur rIntEe <os for the pleasantly inâ€" ypically American home accents that add "decorâ€" to many an otherwise ‘om. They have a distinâ€" ige, tso. When furniture ade of necessity of the woods and without fine ed cabinet finish, people ting their own colorful eir beds and tables and d zest to unpretentious nhcmely roofâ€"trees. So daeâ€" room for a young girl is this one in an attic with cloping ceiling, sprigged wall paper and furniâ€" in pale apple green with flower decoration. This room was designed by Elizabeth Peacock, who is about decorations for both furniture and door panels. A flick of a switch, or the touch of a button summons your personal Genii. You should know him better. His name is Hydro. It is he who, while you slept, kept the motor humming on the blower or cil heater, so that you awoke to a warm comjortable house. Itis he who makes the toastâ€"cooks the mealsâ€" bakes the cakesâ€"runs the vacuum cleaner, the washer and the ironer. And what a friend when you settle down in your favorite chair at night to read or sew under E:opct light, with your radio to bring the best in entertainment ! You retire in security, nowing that should emergency strike, he can be summoned i nstantlyâ€"Lights! Telephone| What other service can you buy at such low cost, that does so much? And while the price of practically everything we buy has steadily advanced during the past two years, the Hydro has, and ;s'â€"l;:dxâ€"l; lowering the cost of electricity to you. In addition, every effort is being made to extend the benefits of Hydro, everyâ€" where in the Province of Ontario. As a partner in this great enterprise, you should take a keen interest in everything that pertains to Hydro, and its efforts to lower power costs still further. rmal types i‘re a real PLEASANT HoOMES veloped the peasant and provincial| than smears and yet it is quite possâ€" feeling in painted furnitureâ€"French,|ible to have a trim neat job if you take Mexican, Swedish, Swiss. Tyrolean,| pains absout it. Dutch. Not to mention the carryâ€"overs As to colors, ponder ponderously. If into our own colonial furniture, such| your room is toned down or drab in as the Hitchcock chair with its stencillâ€"| cclouring anyway, don‘t have primary ed decoration, the Pennsylvania Dutch| or clear tones in your painted things. marriage chest, the California painted| The more mellowed shades in paint will cabinets and chairs. brighten the room without making the This universal urge to make someâ€"! old things look dingy by contrast. thing out of nothing which prompted| Greyedâ€"greens and dusty peach tones these early homemakers to take up| are very smart in painted furniture. So their brushes for better or worse still! are pingâ€"beiges, antiqued powder blues keeps us at it to this day. Only we! and dull old reds. have far more sources to draw on thani On the other hand, if the rest of the ladies with paint brushes in other days.| room can stand it, the clear incisive For we have access to all the differâ€"| paint colours have a crisp fresh charm ent peasant design sources and can| not to be equalled by the greyed casts. copy our motifs as we will. And as a rule, if you‘re striving for So if you like to "fool around" with} the peasant effect, the very bright clear paint and brushes, Ilook up at the liâ€"}cclours are more authentic. For the brary the type of painted furniture! very average type of room, such colours you want to have, then follow \our! as henna, delft blue, jade, grey and style ssurces. Keep mindful of the fav.; Mandarin red ars usable colors. ‘Don‘t that there‘s a big difference between| forget that a very modern room can paintirg and daubing. An awful lot 01 be successfullly but inexpensively amateur jobs are nothing more or less achieved by the use of simple pieces by Elizabeth MacRea Boykin than smears and yet it is quite possâ€" ible to have a trim neat job if you take pains absout it. As to colors, ponder ponderously. If your room is toned down or drab in ccolouring anyway, don‘t have primary or clear tones in your painted things. The more mellowed shades in paint will brighten the room without making the old things look dingy by contrast. Greyedâ€"greens and dusty peach tones are very smart in painted furniture. So are pingâ€"beiges, antiqued powder blues and dull old reds. On the other hand, if the rest of the room can stand it, the clear incisive pairt colours have a crisp fresh charm out of any Lady with leas Xoout Colours and THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, ‘TTIMMINS, ONTARIO the edges of a pine DOX painled the Williamsburg red (a deep purply tone} the trailing ivy stems in white and the leaves in dull blue would be interâ€" esting in lots of places. bridge equipms want to clip 1 musi¢c, or the downstair toys departiment sto: cils for you to your own. A sir the edges of a Williamsburg embers. A or made painters wili ta pisces and refir lcok as they C mother was a good unpainte: straight chairs, : ing jobs, addin can trace patte libraries or fron stentlli the br lend a all painted subtly. When all‘s said and done, nothing is nicer than flower decorations on painted furniture. These can rangs from the very dainty feminine florals painteg on white or pastel painted surâ€" faces to the dashing modern effects. Cften you can get very pretty decalcoâ€" mania motifs to transfer on your furniâ€" ture, or here too you can resort to tracâ€" ing. Or you‘ll be surprised what versaâ€" tile effects you can get with wall paper pasted on frrniture and shellacked over. Borders are pretty to scutline the Do four greenâ€"bl low and the firep note to en A chest of this type is very effective with a painted wavy drawer fronts and cabinet doors with a modernized peasant ( centr2, as here shown. ils of the j our chairs ANDREW WILSON CO. LIMITED pia tab 1 copies of ind do vour c Have £NrY box may be Ddoug. d cover (inciden A me 16 interestin m and n e desig n book furnitu and go nagazine nt COIoursâ€"i a smoky yel ng the sam aese four fo in porch ani icana to vyou oOKs in thn: iture, mak: go to work 1Y TOn roun d th 3Lll | Grawetr dotted Swiss or sai window and a whi the floral design u Corner cupboard wI im pi( TAl OÂ¥ W {fast of which can within the hb Â¥An some Orl snmnioned rondering nclls are epartmer your plat s over t. on ths orative informality _will accep ness,.: Ther en @lt‘s VC 1A Y OY blues and greens, white r sailcloth curtains at r bouquets cut out and entres of the drawers white ches i under 0 white wit cunds of reason. If ginals which have tayed with through y restore them if way. Or some jJob of Colonial backâ€" painted pieces with are, of course, the painted rockers, â€"settees, very fine be bought tsoday at ordet outline fo: hest repeating _ _ one window. with stencilled an furnitu1 ral patterm walls, whi i 100K. C e doors 0o zed@ fruit ind dining design, and interior of. cupboard paintâ€" ed a tone to harmonize with one of the brighter colours in the stencilled design. >« But it‘s in the kitchen that you can really go to town with paint. How about having Swedish peasant figures l in clear blue and lemon yellow on white walls, then repeat the figures on the doors of the cabinets? White breakfast nook with top of table and seats of ’ benches or chairs painted lemon yellow. \ Blue straight curtains at the winodws. Anrd if possible, a scalloped tin hood over the stove! But a Pennsylvania Dutch kitchen would be a real joy. Have stylized tuâ€" lips in red and blue as a border for the white walls and paint the ceiling delft blue.> Blue calico. curtains of course, A Hitchcock rocker near the breakfast alcove, rushâ€"bcttom chairs for the the breakfast alcove painted blue with tulip design repeated on chairâ€" backs. Blue breakfast table. And, if possible, a rew of copper pots prominâ€" ently hanging on one wall. French provincial kitchens have their own hearty charm, Grey walls with red and white gingham curtains, for inâ€" stance, and chairs painted grey with red flowers for decoration would be a nice version of this. For bedrooms, painted pices score again. At foot of bed a chest will hold extra blankets. At midâ€"afterncon a painted rocker will rest a tired back. Fcr household accounts a French paintâ€" ed dacesk will give a lady a sanctuary away from the bustle of the household traffic. Instead of the almost inevitable slipper chair, a pair of straight chairs painted to harmonize with the decorat.â€" ive scheme of the room could be placed near "His" and "Her" cleset in a master ?arococm. +k +. For children‘s rooms there is pracâ€" cally no limit to the possibilities of furniture. We kncow one little . Pierce Furniture Co. 1 VARNISH Z2 MO BAVUVSH H1ARKS" A clear, transparent varnish for finishing and refinishing Banisters, Stairs, Floors, Furniture, Linoleum, Wickerâ€" work, Woodwork and for general interior use. It gives unusual service on Floors, Furniture, Woodwork and other interior surfaces subâ€" ject to extra hard wear. ome in and let us show you boy whose mother is tracing cowboy and Indian motifs on his furniture to paint in Western colours. The furniture itself is enamelled in a light sky blue against which those pioneer symbols stand out brightly. And another little boy is having his furniture painted with his favourites in the animal kingdom. traced from simple picture books. A little girl we think the world of has her beloved "Heide" traced and painted on her furniture, and another has Uncle Remus decorations wandering over the drawer fronts. Remember that, by relying on the tried and true method of tracing, there‘s almost no limit to where your artistic ambitions can take you! We have two bulletins that you might find useful if you have furniture paintâ€" ing on your mind and conscience. One is "How to Paint Furniture", and the other is "Designs for Painted Fruniture Decoration", which has peasant motifs you can trace. Send stamped a stamped, selfâ€"addressed envelope and state which bulletin yvou wish. (Copyright, 19 Rae Bovkin.) (Toronto Telegram) Man accused of onion theft pleaded guilty. Probably with tears in his eyes. Some steal onions. John L. Lewis is accused of stealing unions. Years ago, onion thieves were given one penalty onlyâ€"the stake. Sault Daily Stat annual fair at the of the Ojibway I attracts the atten arts and handicra remarkable work monstrating that crafts are weoll wo Phone 302 OQNXNION®S ‘â€"One section of the Garden River reserve adians which always ion of visitors is the ts department. Some is shown there, deâ€" these native Algoma ‘th preserving. Elizabeth Macâ€"