Show c ommund TV roof must have beauty as well as usefulness looming large in importance in the building of a house or public building nowadays Is the alie roof no longer Is the root roof merely a covering with its only necessary attribute the ability to keep water out of the house but it II must be a thing of beauty as well ell ng as of usefulness modern architecture has developed into a historic and in ter national baudy with tile the growing popularity of period structures anti and roofing keeps step with it men in tile the roofing business must study the he fine old foreign architecture and must he be prepared to roof correctly the annerl can adaptations of the english ninnor manor house the french chateau the lie italian villa early american house cn thedral and ninny many other buildings of period lines slate Is one of the most artistic and harmonious mediums obtainable for such roofing its marvelous marv olous and varying textures lend themselves to the ninny many types of buildings has no garish newness about it because it Is not new dew it lias has a rich mellowness of tone because it has been wen weathered being a natural rock de posit the slate beds and quarries yield natural material that has gained its richness of color by centuries of contact with the forces of nature that thai cannot be duplicated by manufacturers deep red glorious purples greens blues shading down to pale grays and buffs offer wide variety in general the houses of tod anre built with the idea of achieving that air of being built for a century or more when completed and tile roofs roof had a newness that did not seem to fit in with that atmosphere with its glazed shininess and yet a durable fireproof root roof was desired and nothing better could be desired than slate |