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And so it is high time we all shifted gears a little and stopped thinking about painted furniture as something we eoculd toss off* in an afterncon. Oh you can do a professtonal paint job at home all right, ut think of it in terms of patience ard irfinite pains. Having made up yotr mind on this point, deâ€" eide whether ysu want a formal or inâ€" Painted furniture has ‘been taken much too glibly of recent years. True, it is one way of ‘taking an old piece of furniture and making it presentable in hurry. But getting this by the slapâ€" gdash method constitutes what we call the Greenwich Village school of decorâ€" ation. Actually it takes a fine profesâ€" sicnal finish to make painted furniture worthy of formal use. It even takes selfâ€"respecting workmanship to give painted provincial furniture a digniâ€" fied integrity. $25. a month Your Own your our lot, under the National Housing Act, including architecâ€" tural fees. will build you a modern 5â€"room house with full basemenrt, on lear B.C. Fir Vâ€"Joint; Gyproc; Hardwood Floorâ€" Y-Jomt and S!npla, White Pine Featherâ€" lear Fir and Pine Doers in Stock Sizes; ing; cfie ROUGH AND DRESSED Laurence Pacey Architectural Draughtsman Phone 1395 or 975 _ 70% FIFTH AVENUE Engquiries Invited OPEN EVENINGS 7â€"10 A tier of brilliantly painted doors make a distinâ€" sign is worked out in tones of turaucise, white and guished design in Jessica Dragonette‘s bedroom, all the brilliant yeltlowâ€"toâ€"organdie shades. The walls of the room are pale yellow and the deâ€" t ie 1% * PLEASANT HoMEs To Shine or Not to Shine .If the room is on the formal side, you still have some choices to make. Decide first between a shiny or a dull surface. If it‘s to be shiny you ean select a smooth perfect enamel or a lacquer finish as,your medium. EK it‘s to ‘be enamel, use a hizh gloss enamel, coats and coats of it. Or if you feel up to the task of a really fine lacquer job, tackle that â€" remembering that you can‘t put lacquer on top of ordinary paint nor paint on top of lacquer, nor can you mix the two. Make up your mind before you begin which ‘type of finish you‘re going to give the piece of furniture, then clean all the old finish down to the raw woad and begin afresh. On the other hand, if it‘s a dull antique effect you want, use the same pains with your initial coats of paint, only finish off with a dull surface paint inâ€" stead of a gloss. Then rub in a coat of umber and, with a rag, wipe it off, leaving enough in the corners and around any carving to give an old and weatheréd efféct. In painting furniture for more formâ€" al rcoms, you have some limits in the number of ‘tones that are suitable. Usually painted furhiture in a di;nified initerior is in a dull offâ€"white, antiqued with umber. However there are places where a pale old green antiqued in the same manner is quite Aappropriate. Occasiorally pale yellow cast is all right in furniture of this type and once in while a pale powderly blue. There is a certain grey that is attractive on old furniture, but few dark painted finâ€" ishes are suitable for formal furniture. If the furniture is to be dark, it is better that it is left in its natural wood formal effect with the finished plece of furniture. by Elizabeth MacRea Boykin Fave a new smart lsok. But in attemptâ€" ing to do aa piece of furniture of this sort for a dignified roomm. be sure you efther are very skilled to being with ‘Otmwmhzc to take the great pains that will be necessary to achieve a reâ€" sult you will be proud of. When the furniture you are painting is to be used in an informal or provinâ€" elal type of room, you have much more lntitude. : Some of the finest cld paintâ€" of this type: so is a deep o‘d red lacquer. Emeraldâ€" green in eftber lacquer or enamel is found in certain stylized rcocms Pale pink gloss finishes are alâ€" so interesting, as are greys and ‘beiges. Offâ€"whiteés in percelain type surfas» grain. But don‘t feel to> much hesiâ€" tancy about covering up such fine woods as mahogany cr walnut with paint. It has been don> from earliest times by the best decorators. Muzh of the most keautiful Frenc:h furniture was painted walnut and a great deal of 18th century mahogany is painted. Scmetimes it is very effective ‘to use a natural dark mahogany dininz table with Chippenâ€" dale chairs painted in a cream white with seats in either an offâ€"white leather or in a brilliant color leather. Porcelain Surfaces It‘s quite another matter if you‘re giving ‘this formal furniture the sleek zlossy finish. Black lacquer is a very hizh style at the furniture A natural mavle Snighed chest here has its design painted in colours appled directly to the natural wood grain. Note the way the design covers alt} the drawoers instcad of being sulit un in sections. prettiest feet in the world are said to be those of the Scotswomen from Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow. (Released by Consclidated© News Features, Intc.) ture these days is bleached. That tco is a job that can be done at home, even though you‘re a ‘beginner ccnfronted with an old dark red mahogany. cmeqtimes a single bleached ptere in a room will make a pleasant acctent among dark wood finishes. But here again the trick is a matter of care and patience. pieces in bright colours. Greyâ€"green enamel, for instance, as a contrast to a pale honey toned wood finish for the bulkier pieces of furniture would be very effective. . Or else paint all the pieces in pale grey with one.or two accent pieces in burnt orange. Or paint For Peasant Often‘it is amusing to vary the usual ways with informal painted furniture. If you have a chest with drawers framâ€" ed molding ‘to panelled spaces, why not cover.these panels with either chintz or wall paper. With orâ€" dinary flat:drawers, paint a conventionâ€" alized design around the handles or the kntbs. <(In digging . up designs for peasant painted furniture, â€" wwtch for cay interesting motifs in chintzes and wall paper of Tyrolean or .Swedish heritageâ€"then trace them off on the furniture. If you are buying unpainted modern furniture to use in an inexpensive and casual little home, you can be as bright as you like in choice of colours for this furniture. Personally we like the idea of leaving some of ‘the pieces in plain Don‘t ‘be restricted in your plans. for painting by actual furniture itself. Oftâ€"times panels can be painted on the wall to frame an incidental plece of furnitureâ€"scrolls, peasant leaf. designs, draped swags, colonnad:es, vines all adapt themselves to this treatment. â€" Or else consider the possibilities of making your doors serve as decorative panels in the recm by painting them with conâ€" genial designs. But ~doing over furniture . doesn‘t mean painting itâ€"thé smartest furniâ€" them shiny white with yellow dlinings for shelves and yellow cushicns for the chairs. Barrle Examiner;:â€"The smallest and Like the farmer, gardener and fruit grcwer, houscholders frequently have to eontend with outbreaks of problem faced by the latter is more trying in that the pests may continue active indoors even during the coldest of winter weather. Gencrally speakâ€" ing, housshold insects are most troublesome during the summer as a ‘result of higher temperatures and greater relative humidity. This apâ€" plies particularly to fleas which norâ€" mally cccur on cats and dogs. The tiny larvae of these pests develop in floor cracks and other places where organic matter may accumulate, and their deâ€" velopment is accelerated to such an extent during the summer that they may, if suitable precautions are not taken, appear in large numbers and attack humans. To prevent this from happening, the Division of Entsmology, Science Service, Dominion Departâ€" ment of Agriculture, Ottawa, recomâ€" mends (1) that pets be kept free of fleas by dusting them with pyrethrum .or derris powder; (2) that floors, parâ€" ticularly basement fioors, ‘be cleaned at proper intervals, and (3) that a pyrethrum spray be used to destroy any adult fleas that may have emerged. Globe and Mail:â€"Once more first 100,000" has reached France. arrival is merely an indication certain business is to be done again. €oskroaches, to mention another all too prevalent ‘pest, live comfortably in heated buildings all the year round. They are filthy, illâ€"smelling and poâ€" tentially disease carrying insects, and should not be tolerated in the home. Sodium fiuoride is the best all round remedy for these pests, and incidenâ€" tally will also destroy the less offensive but sometimes equally destructive, silverfish. It is a poison and should ‘be used with caution on that account. Sprinkle it lightly in the places where the insects @are most frequently seen, also blow it into their hiding places with a "puffer" or dustâ€"gun. These and many other household pests are dealt with in the 100â€"page Bulletin No. 642, obtainable at a small charge from the King‘s Printer, Ottawa. A 4â€"page circular on the same subject is disâ€" tributed free on application to the Publicity and Extension Division, Domâ€" inion Department of Agriculture, Otâ€" tawa. The psocids or "book lice," tiny, pale wingless insects, usually less than oneâ€"twelfth of an inch in length, also thrive in warm moist weather. These do not attack humans or damage household goods; in fact, they are quite harmless, but sometimes appear in enormous numbers, especially in newly constructed ‘buildings, and chuse sericus embarrassment to propâ€" erty cwners. Fortunately they usually disappear when the buildings are dried out by furnace heat when cool weather arrives. The Rouynâ€"Noranda Press last week had the followinz paragraph of spiccial interest at this time:â€"â€" **Canada‘s gold production will not be allowed to fall in wartime, it was freely stated around Canada‘s financial centres this week. One statement was that the Dominion government . and some of the chief gold producers had reached an agreement that output would be decreased as it was during the last war cwing to a labor shortage. Gold would be even more necessary in any future war than during the last because of United States "cash for armaments" policy. Canada‘s annual production of more than $150,000,000 could be turned to good Imperial uses." Canada‘s Gold Production Not to Fall in Wartime BP P > "at" FOR THAT TAILORâ€"MADE TOUCH IN HAND ROLLED CIGARETTES Gover things which effets southerners had deplored as threatening the romance of the timberlands and the rock country whete men are men, and most of them are proud of it. Take the case of A. Dignard, foreâ€" man on a BRlezard Valley farm, who was awakened Priday nizht by frantic kawling of the penned up cattle and the excited barkinz of the guardian dogs. That was ‘a clarion alarm to Mr. Dignard, who knows his cattle as well as his dogs. He knew something was up, and was sure of it when he saw a big black object trying to fight its way into the corral where the cattle were penned. ts _ With no weapon cther than a pitchâ€" forkâ€"a weapon incidentally which men of the soil have used right back through all farming historyâ€"Mr. Di:nard atâ€" tacked the big black shadow.. A "whoosh" of pain scon told him his adâ€" versary was a bear. â€" But did that phase the doughty farm foreman? Not "Tor a moment. If anything the vigor. of his attack was redoubled. So fierce was the onslaught, so repeated the« prods irocm the tines of the pitchfork, that Mr. Bear lost no time in retreating to the shelter of a nearby poplar. There ie huffed and puffed, trying to make Mr. Dignard retreat, but once in comâ€" mand of the situation Mr. Dignard was not doing any kacking up. 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