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(By Edith Macdonald in Canadian Home Journal) Moving, we know, is a ‘pretty grim business. You may, in fact, regard it as one of life‘s minor horrors. But you‘ve got to admit it‘s a blessinzg in disguise. Would anything short of this pulling up scakes have spurred you on to treating yourself and your family to new backzround for living? Your rooms have bored you. They‘re dull and cluttered, perhaps. Or formal and unfriendly. Or have that old, tired look. Or they‘re just uninterestinzly ous of date. But you‘ll never had the pep or courage, haw>» you, to make that clean sweep which wculd simplify and smarten the place in the pleasant manâ€" ner of the pressnt decorative era? Now you‘te moving to a new house. Hurrah for the chance to create thre surroundinzs vour modern soul craves! You‘ve some nice old furniiture in your possession? Splendid. Eighteenth Century mahogany and Ninetrenth Century walnut are particular pets of clever decorators everywhere. They‘re using them with their most starkly newâ€"fashioned walls, floors and fabrics. We advise you to plan yciur rooms around these In the case of Century manogany, such exceilent reproductions are being made of the old Chippandale, Sheraton and Hepplewhite designs, it‘s possible to supplement your anviques. Your stuffedâ€"over furniture is going to look fat and characterless against the light walls of the new livingâ€"room. We know that‘s what you‘re thinking. It wont‘ look like that when it‘s camouâ€" fAaged in the wellâ€"bred chintz slips in which we hope you‘re going to envelope it. Decorators come and decorators go but the loose covers of the English drawingâ€"room go on forever. They filower end flourish not only in thoir quaint, chily old Victorian rooms which are seill littered with waterâ€" colours and photographs and memâ€" entoes of adventures in foreign lands, but ‘also in the giamorous flats and houses of sophisticated New Yorkers. THURSDAY, MAY 12TH, 1938 And we aren‘t urging, of â€"course, that these slips be always of chintz valancâ€" ed with frills. Slipâ€"covers tailored in crash and the exciting new cotton broâ€" cades are very smar: dress for the large low sofas and chairs of popular livingâ€" room use. Where you nave Or‘lentals or otherwise patterned rugs, these tailâ€" ored, selfâ€"toned covers> are definaely the sort to have. Speaking of improving your furniâ€" ture: In tha:; bedroom you‘re afraid is goinzg to look so hneavy and elderly, why not convert the burcau into a chest of drawers (hang iss mirror. on Some Suggestions for the New Home, Rented or Not People may be Tired of the Oid nome and the Trouble of Moving may be Offset by the Joy of Fixing up the New House. Making a New Start in the New Home. Residence of Dr. E. A. F _ 1 on Henuock street. An style home with every modern convenience and advantage and very attractive in appearance. Hillâ€"Clarkâ€"Francis, of Timmins, New Liskeard and Kirkland Lake and other Northern towns, were the general contractors for this fineâ€" ~appearing home. Advance Staff Photo Engravinx ..2 wWall above it) and frivolize the secne w h a flounsed dressingâ€"table? Sty‘r up the armâ€"chair, too, with a gay cre:znne slip. L‘izht and spaceâ€"you‘re all for these aspecrs cof modern decor? So are we. The new walls will be white or perâ€" haps in soft colour? Then paint the doors and woodwork to match; the rfMect of unbroken space increases the apparent size of the rooms. Thos¢ curtains you‘ll be makingâ€" have them filoorâ€"jon:th (except for casoement windows). This will add sgreatly to the of the room. And it will repay you to line them with sateen. They‘ll last longer and look infinitely berter. If you own a reliable cewinzâ€"machine and a good long table cn which to cut, tack and press them, the most swish curtains can easily be made at home. Charm isn‘t a luxury. Not in houses any more than in humans. And in nouses ‘s something to be acquired at THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO St. Mary‘s Hospital Nurses‘ Residence, Mrs. Todhunter‘s Residence, Schumacher Porcupine General HMHospital and Nurses‘ Residence, South Porcupine. REED BLOCK D. R. FRANKLIN will. Some of the most charming houses we know have nothing grand or affluent in their makeâ€"up. A few fine old bits of furniture. Ingratiatâ€" ing chintz. Smart lamps. Nice simple china and glass. An interesting picâ€" rure or two in each room. Books on builtâ€"in shelves. Flowering plants here and there. These enhance, like the radiance of moonlight on homely hnhousetops, all the other familiar, necessary objects of comfort and conâ€" venience. Homes are Better Minus Cockroaches It‘s a thrilling task you have on hand this making a charming, hospitable spot of the new house you‘ve just boushtâ€"or intend to build by loan this vear! The common cockroach is the potenâ€" tial carrier of disease.\organisms. in=â€" cluding certain kinds of pathogenic bacteria and protozo, and it may also serve as the secondary or intermediate host of parasitic nematode or reciundâ€" worms. In view of <the menace of cockroaches as potential disease carâ€" riers, and because they contaminate human food with fetid glandular seâ€" cretions, their control is of widespread public interest. These insects have flattened, horny bodies, and large spiny legs which enable them to move quickâ€" ly and take refuge in cracks and other small crevices, where they usually reâ€" main hidden during the day and emerge ati night in search of food. The of cockroaches develop within a small horny capsule carried about by the fomale within the end of the abâ€" domen until shortly before the young or nymphs hatch. Effective Method Suggested to Control These Pests. The most widespread species is the small, soâ€"called <(German cockroach, Blatella germanica L., which is very prevalen in apartment and dwelling hnouses, hotels, restaurants, stores, etc., where warm, moist conditions and a plentifiul food supply are to be foind. Sometises, during the summer months, this species lives and multipliecs in garbage dumps. According to the Division of Entoâ€" mology, Sicence Service, Dominion Deâ€" partment of Agriculture, Ottawa, cockâ€" roaches may be controlled with soâ€" dium fluoride. «The powder should be dusted lightly where the insecies occur, or blown by means of a dust gun or insecticide puflfer into cracks and creâ€" vices which shelter them. Owing to the=somewhat polsonous character of this insecticlde reasonable precautions shculd be raken to prevent accidental poisonirg. The other materials often used are pyrethrum and borax., Pyreâ€" Birch Street Senool, Timmins ARCHITECT POR Schumacher High School, Schumacher Mcisley Ball Building, Timmins Pearl Lake Hotel, Schumacher, Consumers‘ Coâ€"operative Society, Timmins Brewers‘ Warehouse, Schumacher Canadian Bank of Commerce, Schumacher thrum insect powder is nonâ€"polisonous to humans, but less ~satisfactory than sodium fluoride, as it loses its effecâ€" tiveness quickly on exposure to air and has to be used in larger quanâ€" tities,. Borax, too, is less effective than sodium fluoride. If used it should be mixed with equal parts of powdered swert chocolate, PFly sprays contain« Ing pyrethrum are also comâ€" monly lused, but these kill only by di«â€" reet contact. A pamphlet dealing with cockroaches may be secured by writâ€" Ing to the Publicity and Extension vision, Depurtmemni of Agciculture, Ot«â€" ta wa. Spring sunshine, welcome though it be, has a ratluer disconceriing habit of showing up any havooe which Winter‘s Indoor activities may have brought to home woodwork, walls, cellings, furniâ€" ture, says The Canadian Home Jour« nal. Perhaps, however, that‘s really a blessing in disgulse, as It so often acâ€" counts for the accent which the aver«â€" age householder suddenly puts on new, checrâ€"Inspiring wallpapers, paint, rugs, draperies and furnitureâ€"coverings, Spring. the Ideal Time for Improving the Home A good time for decorating and re«â€" furnishing, yes: but spring is an ideal time for Iinaugurating a larger proâ€" gramme of completely modernizing the old hceuse or building a house "new from the ground up." And, of course, i is the best time of all for garden im« provement. A. CARON This wellâ€"known contractor for many years has been building bet=â€" ter homes for the people of Timâ€" mins and district, as well as schools and other structures thrt have added to the appearance and staâ€" bility of the town. BETTER HOMES EDITION