Making a Room Seem Larger Than It Realy Isâ€"A M ceite, Colours and Arrangement. It‘s done with mirt the easiest way to le room. Especially posed in the home jiggle walls around Decorator tricks th seem larger than it The Mirror Methodâ€"Not just a mirâ€" ror over the mantel but an entire mirâ€" rored wall or atâ€"least an entire mirrorâ€" ed chimney breast. If you‘re up against a room with too many doors and winâ€" dows (frequent dining room problem) the answer is to mirror the wall and have mirror doors as well, framed in chromium moldings. I{ you have awkâ€" ward spaces between groups of wmdowc have mirrored panels for these spaces and treat the entire expanse as a broad group of windows with a single drapery dramatically joining them. Reflections For a bedroom, a dressing table set against an enormous mirrored panel is stunning. If you‘d rather not go off the deep end and splurge on mirror installations, you might have a mirâ€" rored screen as a frame for an interâ€" esting grouping of furniture. Deep set windows, faced with mirror, or else mirrored sills, add immeasurably to the illusion of spaciousness in the room and reflect pleasant extra light. Window Deceitsâ€"The room with a tier of small naned windows or a bay Window Deceitsâ€"The room with a tier of small paned windows or a bay with small paned windows can be apâ€" parently opened out no end by replacâ€" ing these small paned windows with big panes of vnlate picture window fashion. French doors leading onto a balcony or porch can be. replaced As for curtain sleightâ€"ofâ€"hand i the windows the as they s hould hanging the dra walls at the side by having the va above the actual And of course ha to the filcor. If room aren‘t very a balcony or por with perfectly pls doors without fran Here is a living room beforr it and assoriment of little accessoric The same rtom after it was redecorated. The floo: small window panes were removed and big platesign glass pane‘s put in their places. Radiators under broa the window were also moved in order to create a cov through effect. The walls were lightened and covand ered with a soft misty mural design. A plain light He themse ul be rcom after it was redecorated. The floor further emhanced the spaciousness of the de w panes were removed and big platesign. The only pattern of importance was the put in their places. Radiators underbroad striped fabric used for pull eurtains and sofa were also moved in order to create a covers. Furniture was in light bleached finishes ct. The walls were lightened and covand lacquers, The room was decorated by Eleanor soft misty mural design. A plain light Horst, HOW TO LET OUT THE SEAMS OF YOUR ROOMS â€"at least that‘s it the seams of the problem is here you can‘t ) suit yourself. make a room ally is include: _ aren‘t as big den them by over onto the heighten them extend upward f the window. is include just a mit thick ire several nsider. â€"If it was done over. NCte the cluttered arrargement, small window panes ries which tend to make the room seem small. hn Beware If the room is to> much cut up alâ€" reoarily with doors and windows, have the curtains and draperies the same color as the walls and beware of too much fancy overâ€"drapiniz. Be careful of fancy overâ€"draping in any case unâ€" less you have large rooms and plenty of money to do a very right job of them. Straizht hung curtains made plain and full and to hang to the fioor in organ pipe folds are about the nicest thing you can have for a room of simâ€" ple dignity. ruz colors. Walls and rug in the same tone make a room appear to be larger. The popular notion is that white or cream ceilings give a more spacious effect, but some of the best decorators maintain that a darker toned ceiling tends to raise the apparent height of the room. Color Cuesâ€"By painting the baseâ€" board the exact same color as your broadloom carpet you appear to add feet to the size of the room. Or if it is not possible to have a wallâ€"toâ€"wall carpet, paint the floor the same shade as the rug and see what an effect you get. Decorators do this even with pale A Merger Furniture Formulasâ€"If bulbous furâ€" niture is your problem, first consider covering the pieces set out in the floor in the exact same shade as the rug, while the pieces against the walls can be covered in the wall color. Then they will seem to merge rather than intrude. YÂ¥ou can even consider painting wooden furniture after the same formula. Or, if you don‘t want to be as drastic as that with your wooden pieces, con.51der bleaching those lailze wall pieces so they‘ll blend against a pale wall tone. If your rugs are figured, the furniture cut in the floor can have plain coverâ€" ings in the predominating color of the rug. Glass and mirror pieces of inciâ€" dental furniture are often useful in the room that yvou want to look bigger dental furnit the room tha than it really by Elizabeth MacRea Boykin ital swag effects and watch out Venetian blinds with their horiâ€" lines. Matter of Mirrors, Window Deâ€" Backgroundsâ€"Some of the misty scenic wall papers seem to make a room more spacious, but generally a plain wall is the answer for the tooâ€"small room. That doesn‘t need to limit you to the usual ivory, however. Any of the soft pastel colors fit this picture often even a dark wall can give the effect of cpacxousness if it is used with great skill. Get rid of those moldin!: panels that homes were strewn with some years back. Not only do they chop up the wall spaces, but they make it all but impossible to place the furâ€" niture decently or hang pictures proâ€" perly Be Hard Boiledâ€" Arrangementâ€"When all‘s said and cone,. the real answer to the question of getting a spacious effect is in the arrangement of the furniture. If you will fill a room fuller than it was ever meant to be, it‘s going to look smallish and stuffy . . . if you put only enough pieces in it for its size and uset, it will seem tranquil and spacious. So be very hard boiled about eliminating A lot of stuff that just crowds the room. If you have too many little magazine racks and stools, fower stands and tooâ€" small tables, clear them away. If you have some enormous bulbous furniture that is too big, try to make plans to replace it as soon as possible because the overstuffed set, circa 1925, is pretty oppressive in most any ordinary layout. As for ornaments, eliminate all the little gimcracky thin‘ks that clutter up without making the slightest decorative contribution to the room. A few good ornaments, big enough to make bold positive accents, are far more effective than a trunk full of trinkets. (Released by Consolidated News > Features, InCt.) Toronto ‘TIblegram:â€"Women‘s hats will soon return to sanity, says a stylist. Maybe it‘s a crazy prediction. Sudbury Star:â€"It was down in the hill country that a native told a visitor he raised hogs, because you don‘t have to hoe hogs. TWE ADVANRNOCER TV Considering Both Sides of the Question (continued from page 1.) states in his book, Year of Reckonit "The readiness with which the Gerâ€" man Governmment incurs this risk (war) would seem to discredit the beâ€" lief of some foreign observers that its supplies of essential raw materiâ€" als, especially petrol, are so limited that it could not face a long campaign., Marshal Goering has assured me that Germany is now manufacturing petrol from ‘brown coal‘ on such a scale that he is building two distillation plants to utilize the deposits of that material in Austria, which will produce petrol for export. Lacks 33 Products Authorities estimate that Germany is deficient in at least 33 raw materials which are essential in varying degrees to her economy. Germany must imâ€" port 75 per cent of her peacetime war demand of iron (half her imports came from France) and it appears quite likely wartime requirements will be on a much expanded scale. Germany may now win access to the resources of Upper Silesia but it is known that the Poles planned to dynamite these mines before abandoning them so the Germans may not find them readily usable. "With the nineâ€"million ton output of the Roumanian oil fields already in reach of her grasp, it would certainly be optimistic to suppose that Gerâ€" many‘s war machine would collapse for lack of fuel." German resources of oil are very small and synthetic output is only one third of peacetime requirements. Wheâ€" ther the synthetice product itself is suitable for airplanes is not known. In time of war the German need for Oil may be doubled or perhaps even trebled. Roumania produces an amount equivalent to the German peacetime consumption but other sources wWill have to be drawn on if war demand is to be met. Roumanian production is declining at it is. The USSR. has reâ€" sources of oil but her own demands have increased in recent years and inâ€" tensification of difficulties with Japan may leave little surplus available for sale, even assuming that Germany should have an export surplus of suitable goods for trading. } The following statistics were comâ€" piled by the Royal Institute of Interâ€" national Affairs: Largely or Entirely Lacking Copper Asbestos Tin Cotton Bauxtite Wool Nickel Jute Tungsten Silk Chromium Flax Vanadium Hemp Molybdenum Sisal Mercury Corn Phosphates Coffee Tobacco Zint Manganese Antimony Petroleum FPats Tron Export Surplus Coal Magnesite Potash Sugar Copper is one of the key metals of warfare and in this product Germany is able to supply only a small fraction of her requirements. Jugoslavia, if willâ€" ing or forced, is considered her best source in wartime but the situation is clouded for Germany by the. fact that the copper mines are controlled by a French company. At best the country can supply only a small fracâ€" tion of Germany‘s requirements, the great bulk of the world‘s copper bein‘ produced outside the European conâ€" tinent. The USSR. produces a COnâ€" siderable amount of copper but as yet that country is still a net importer. Has No Nickel Nickel is one metal that Germany is practically entirely dependent on imâ€" ports for her requirements. It may some day prove a very vulnerable spot in the German armor if it is possible to prevent reâ€"export of nickel from 1 neutral countries once it has been sold by the iCanadian companies, the chief producers. Small supplies are available from other countries but are entirely a eP Approximately Selfâ€"Sufficient Potatoes A NZAAA h. 4 inadequate for the German needs. In 1940, International Nickel will bring a new mine into production in Finland, as the possibility is faced that Germany will have an accesible supply from that country. °J SnA ege, fie o# 9T J * While Germany is now believed to be producing close to 85% of her food requirements she is particularly aefiâ€" cient in certain particular products. Thus Germany is fully selfâ€"sufficient in potatoes and beet sugat, but dependent for at least 40% of her supply of fats In cereals most of the country‘s reâ€" quirements can be met from domestic production, although in a bad YCA! such as 1937, 25% of requirements had to be imported. In the case of corn the entire supply has to be brought in. Short on Fats . Germany imports 10 % OL CE â€"VUV | ter requirements but more‘import,antl than the butter shortage ATE€ the imâ€" ports of ollseeds and whale. OlH. both of which must come from abroad and | will be now cut off The volume of | imports of oilseeds (in terms of oili content) are about Six times those ot! butter, and of whale oil about double. | Some whale oil may be obtained from | Norway but oilseeds must come in the| main from the tropics Or the far east.; Output has been fostered in Europe but | is still very small. : | c ( . al. . 3 For some other raw mMawiidi L many is either not so badly off or has sources of supply which are not too remote. Half her needs in lead are supplied by herself. The other half from Iuenslavr‘a ard Spain, one Eomes from Jugosiavyia perhaps accessible the Partly Lacking Sulphur Pyrites Rubber Timber Wheat Meat 'has expended a smelting capacity to put her well on the way to selfâ€"sufficiâ€" ency in zinc and may find export surâ€" pluses in Italy, Jugoslavia and Sweden. ue sn es N o o e of sulphur and pyrites, and gets the remainder from Norway, or from Italy, which is the leading exporter of sulâ€" phur and a large exporter of pyrites. Germany gzets mercury from Spain, a source now easily cut off. Now Lacks Capital At the beginning of the last war Germany was a country with an abunâ€" dance of raw materials and strong financial resources, The methods of financing resorted to over the last year show that Germany is now lacking in liquid capital or raw materials, even though a war chest of essential war materials has probably been built up within the country. A shortage of food, however, may just as easily bring Gerâ€" many to her knees as a shortage of nickel. It did in the last war and the food problem proved a deciding factor in the Spanish war. Madrid‘s surrender was rather due to a shortage of food than any final passage at arms. Railways Slighted Effort in the German economy has been so concentrated on rearmament that industry has not been able to make needed replacements. Concernâ€" in‘g this angle Bernard Keeling writes in "Germanyâ€"What Next?" as follows: "The number of houses and filats completed in the first nine months of 1988 declined by 21 per cent as comâ€" pared with 1937, and there is an esâ€" timated shortage of 1.5 million dwellâ€" ings. Even the railways have suffered in spite of their obvious strategic imâ€" portance. According to a recent reâ€" port by the Reichsbahn, they are in urgent need of new capital for the renovation of the permanent way and rolling stock. Indeed the semiâ€"official Institut fur Konjunkturforschung esâ€" timates that the supply of goods wagons is 15 to 20 per cent short of requirements, and that the railways will have to raise nearly Rm. 10 milâ€" liards of new c.pi‘al during the next three or four years. emph%percentothetneedo‘ The methods used by Germany in building up her resistance and «‘~ king power may prove her ultimate do vnâ€" fall. Attempts to build up impenusâ€" trable walls on her east and west frontiers may have overtaxed her finâ€" ancial strength. Perhaps the large German productive capacity in planes may be of little use if, after the first rigorous months of war, it is ~found impossible to finance the necessary imâ€" ports of raw materials for the manuâ€" facture of additional planes. Reports have already been circulated of Gerâ€" man authorities removing iron fences to tap the last possible resources of the country in iron. Time will tell if the quick steps taken by Germany in rationing certain foods at the outâ€" 'break of war was but a sign of preâ€" .paredness for any eventuality or an mdlcation that every day would be of intense importance if Germany was to be successful in its war game. The suggestion made by A. M. Wiseâ€" man, senior British Trade Commisâ€" sioner in Canada, that wherever possible Canadians should buy imported articles from Great Britain, should be heeded. Mr. Wiseman said: Buying British Goods a Help to Winning War "We (Great Britain) shall need to buy a lot from you. I only hope you will help to make that easy by buying as much as possible from us. I know that in the early stages of the war you may feel that you are taking rather a chance, but I am sure that you will take that chance gladly when you reaâ€" lize how much you will be helping us to carry on. Already I have received very many inquiries at my office from business men anxious to place their services at the disposal of the United Kingdom. Here is a way in which all can render the most practical assisâ€" tance possible." (An editorial in The Montreal Star) We shall do well to heed Mr. Wiseâ€" man‘s words. British purchases of all kinds of supplies from Canada are likely to be very great indeed for some time to come. We cannot expect that payment for these will be made in gold. That is impossible even in peaceâ€" time and with the enormous strain which war puts upon the finances of any country, even the richest, payment "in kind" is the only feasible basis for trade. Quite aside from helping to make things easier for Britain, generâ€" ous purchases of British commodities and British manufactured articles is in Canada‘‘s own interests. Unless we keep our end up, "buying British" whenever we posslbly can, in making purchases of 1mported article, we shall be adding sericusly to the tremendous task of British war financing and makâ€" ing it harder and harder for her to continue her purchases here. Toronto Telegram:â€"Some war obserâ€" vers think hordes without are no more dangerous than hoarders within. "Buy British" when you can is good advice. J. J. McKAY REAL ESTATE INSUKA NUE STEAMSHIP OFFICE 20 Pine St. N. Timmins, Phone 1135 and 40 Main St., South Porcupine, Phone 285 Available in Timmins, Schuâ€" macher, and South Porcuping, for commercial buildings, apartment houses, new homes, and improvements. Paid back by monthly payments over a number of years. On First Mortgages APPLY INSURANCE @ 0 4 6 0 0 6 0# 0 0 0e 000000:0:0000000000000000000000000:0†Gen. Gort Has Had Rapid Rise to the Command of Army Was Winner of Three Meâ€" dals in Last W ar. Winning the V.C. Then military secretary to the war secretary, Gort, a member of a disâ€" tinguished soldiering family, had a reâ€" cord of 32 years in the army. Going into the Great War as captain in 1914, the Sandhurstâ€"trained officer won deâ€" coration after decoration and as a brevetâ€"major in 1918, won the Victoria Cross, Britain‘s hizhest military award for valor. A few months before the armistice in 1918, Gort was leading the Grenaâ€" fier Guards in an attack across the Canal du Nord. Twice he was severely wounded. But he insisted on being carried forward on a stretcher, directâ€" ing the advance until the position was won. Only when flares announced the capture of the goal did Gort collapse. Won Many Honours Previously he had won the Military Cross and the Distinguished Service Order and had been mentioned in despatches nine times. When Horeâ€"Belisha was looking for a military secretary to help him reâ€" juvenate the army, the war secretary recalled an incident in Switzerland and a hurried trip to Ascot, where Gort was engaged in manoeuvres, followed. Several years before the two men colâ€" lided while skiing in the Alps. "Who the hell are you?" demanded Horeâ€"Belisha, picking himself out of the snow. "Gort" was the terse response. The commanderâ€"inâ€"chief, a soldier from the head to toes, was said by a fellow officer to be "hard but no bully." He added the "Tiger‘" had no time for anything but his work. Durinz the past two years a perâ€" sonal acquaintance with conditions in the Orient has been valuable with unâ€" London.â€"Appointmer Clear B.C. Fir Vâ€"Joint; Gyproc; Hardwood Floorâ€" ing; Vâ€"Joint and Shiplap; White Pine Featherâ€" edge; Clear Fir and Pine Doors in Stock Sizes; Sash in Stock Sizes Y ard Schumacher Phone 725 John W. 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