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Show SPRING HOUSECLEAXIXG By S. J. Ottley As in the spring, the young man's fancy turns to love and the animals and birds and trees take on new vesture, the restive res-tive housewife's fingers itch to get at the accumulated grime of winter and make the household glisten with fresh brightness and cleanliness. We live in an age of color and facility. If it's a soiled rug, a broken window, a weather-beaten weather-beaten home or a needed paper pa-per job, there is an agency not far away which can do the job for you or the materials are available with expert advice for the person who wishes to do his own. Never before has the world known such specialization in ways and means of doing things to make life bright and cheerful; cheer-ful; a special paint for every conceivable purpose a color harmony to enhance the beauty beau-ty of already possessed furnishings furnish-ings or to establish a motif all it's own. Cleaning materials for every conceivable purpose and not far in the future is a world of plexoglass, by means Ours is a day when facility for such planning, building and preservation is not alone for the select few but is viilhin the range of the common populace, j One need no longer wring from vegetables a n d bacon rinds, the wherewith to clean as his parents did. The material exists in every imaginable form. on the shelves of every corner grocery and paint store in the land. : i One need not be a trained I artisan to create a beautiful color harmony. Literature of which men can live, visally, out of doors and stiil be preserved pre-served from the chill of winter and the beat of summer. Insulated In-sulated visibility is a wonder development of wartime. The policy of the pioneer leader was to build well with an eye to the future and to preserve pre-serve those possessions by regular and persistent upkeep. Some of the finest pieces of architecture of our generation are buildings nearing the century cen-tury mark in age and standing as monuments to artistic planning. abounds in abundance and friendly paint dealers are always al-ways ready to assist in such creations. Wall coverings in a never ending variety, are available avail-able and can be applied with reasonable safety on most any existing surface, with a little helpful advice from those whose business it is to know. Nature cries out for humanity human-ity to take pattern from her and to complement, by artificial means .that which nature cannot can-not reach or which man has destroyed, de-stroyed, that future generations may say, "Our fathers planned well, built wisely and preserved as our heritage, that which they built." |