Show MAKING THE HOT HOME E attractive fa AL A SAIM PIr 12 1 aaa GIZA As competent ai nearly all agree that one of the best beat ways to keep the family intact Is to make the home so attractive and homey hO Ticy it I 1 may use the phrase that the boys and tho the girls will have no desire to go to dance halls and saloons in the course of my travels I 1 have noticed that in most everyll every instance istance where faal lies have separated it has been duo due to uncongenial surroundings now please do not misunderstand me I 1 do not want you to think that a homo home must be elegantly furnished to be homelike on the contrary many of tho the most humble homes are the most cheery and inviting because the good wife baa lia succeeded in combining tasty effects of curtains wall paper furniture turn furni nure ure etc and this brings to mind a most important subject that of how to make cold cola looking cheerless homes inviting suppose a room looks too high for its length and breadth with avith the help of a good carpenter or handy man that mart lean lanky appearance can be entirely eliminated by making king a false ceiling out of compo to board a rd TILIS Is much easier than it seems A light framework Is first made out of to which the compo board Is a nailed the reason I 1 recommend compo board Is that it Is sanitary inexpensive easily applied and the workmen do not track up lip the house as Is sometimes the case with other building materials As an illustration of ane small cost of compo board let it me cite you the ease caso of a friend of mine mrs D at provo utah sho she hid bid a spare bed bcd room on the ground floor north sido of room th tho house it was really too small to use as a bod bed room and it was so BO tall and narrow looking that it mado made her feel uncomfortable to go into it with the aid of her husband and a carpenter it was transformed into the cutest sewing r room 0 0 imaginable they made a false cel belling ll 11 rm with compo board paneled tho the side aide walls with it as the plaster was broken and covered the joints with strips or two inches wide battens then between the pinela they put brown burlap and above tinted the wails with wali Ala bastine or Fla flatonia Fl atola toIa giving the room a mission effect as ag the wood work wall wai stained brown making a very pretty contrast it if you have any such rooms that you would like to fix up and dont know just how to go at it write me care of merrill company salt lake city utah and a I 1 will gladly assist you in every way that I 1 can vilt without hout charse charge the only condition being that you use compo board which you can easily procure from any lumber dealer or I 1 will see bee that you aro are supplied plied it if your dealer does not carry it compo board only costs sic a square foot by figuring figurine the number of square feet to be covered it la is a very easy matter to ind find out what it will cost to make the dreariest drea riest rooms the chee cheeriest riest d 4 CHASE celisa |