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Show Cobblestones Make an Attractive Home One of nature's hardest materials, the cobblestone, long considered useless, use-less, has now been turned to good advantage ad-vantage that of building beautiful, enduring homes for the man who wants a small home or a summer cottage cot-tage in the country, points out Allan Ii. Smith in Your Home Magazine. "Relics of glacier days, cobblestones are well weathered through centuries and contain no soft material," continues contin-ues the Y'our Home writer. "Thus they are enduring as well as fire-safe. And in colors they abound reds, greens, blues, browns and oilier hues yet these are intermingled in sn: ii a way that none is bright, the subdued tones of nature predominating with alluring effect. These natural advantages, advan-tages, coupled with the fact that their only cost is that of gathering, arc making cobblestones a popular mjte-rial mjte-rial for medium -and low-cost homes. Many of the houses already built are so attractive that families with nn ans sufficient to choose any building. ni:U rial, are selecting cobblestone construction con-struction for their new homos." "Forms for cobblestone work," instructs in-structs tliis practical article in Yom Home, "are required only for the in nor wall, no outer forms being needed The form for the wall is built in courses, the sheathing boards against vMf.li 1! i,-. ,11 l,,,Ht l-.tn" r-itso.l I again and again until t lie wall rises t" i the required height. Studs used con sist of two by four or two by ix-inch material placed not more than three feet apart to prevent bulging in the finished wall. The hoards coming in contact with the concrete and cobble-I cobble-I stones arc greased to permit easy re moval." "For the man who wants to build a small home at coinparalivrly Utile cost," concludes the Your Home writer, "the cobblestone house offers j n solution if the country near his site alTords the stones in sufficient quail-I quail-I lily for the building or a! least enoir'h ; f them to make it unaeeess::ry for ' him to buy a large pei-cenlag-' of i them." |