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Show Use Lining Paper in Covering New Walls Many householders cannot understand under-stand why the wall paper man, when called in to give an estimate of work to be done, suggests that a lining paper be placed on the walls before the paper selected is applied. Especially If It is a new house, freshly plastered, they cannot see why they should go to the expense of having those dazzling new walls twice covered. The chief use of a lining paper on new plaster walls, explains a veteran paperhanger of 30 years' experience, is to prevent the papers from slipping, as they will sometimes a considerable fraction of an inch, when they are placed wet with paste on a hard-finished new plaster wall. Of course, this slipping results, in the case of a figured fig-ured wall paper, in throwing the Joining Join-ing slightly out of perfect alignment. And there is nothing .more unpleasant than imperfectly matched wall paper designs. Another reason why lining papers should be used is that they are very absorbent, and when the fluter coat of paper is applied the lining paper, as obliging as a desk blotter, quickly absorbs ab-sorbs all the excess moisture in the paste and prevents stains from appearing appear-ing on the delicate outer paper. Embossed Em-bossed papers will often flatten out unless un-less they are backed by a good lining paper. So the next time you go to select interior decorations and the wall paper man suggests lining paper, do not Jump to the hasty conclusion that he Is trying to "do" you. He simply wishes to give you a thoroughly satisfying satis-fying job. and this, he knows from experience, ex-perience, he can best do if you permit him to hang first a good lining paper. |