Evening star., 1939-05-13
BY DOROTHY DUCAS and
ELIZABETH GORDON.

How does your house look when
you stand across the street or across
the country road and gaze at it criti-
cally? 1t may be spic and span,
fresh in its new coat of paint, the
shutters neatly affixed to the sides
Of curtained windows, the roof solid
In appearance and in fact. Yet you
may say, fondly critical: Il don't
know, something seems lacking. 1t
ought to be more tied together"
What you need it a frame for
your house to turn it into a COM
plete picture. The frame can be
hedge or stone wall. of course, but
we have been investigating the third
kind of frame-fences. Nothing is
more attractive than the right kind
Of fence around the lawn surround
Ing your house. And the right kind
means the right material plus the
right style
Among the finest woods for out
door work are properly graded red
wood tldeWater red cypress and
Western red cedar. whose resistance
to rot and to boring insects makes
them particularly good for use in
direct contact with the earth under
all sorts of weather. They can be
used unpainted for fences, while
they take and hold paints and stains
very well also. A coating of clear
creosote is recommended to keep
moisture from penetrating the wood
and to maintain the present color,
as it acts as filler.
But even though you choose the
right wood. you must make your
fence match your house in style or
you Won't get that finished there,
that's right effect when your house
stands surrounded by fence.
A selection of six different styles
Of wooden fence for six different
types of architecture is offered by
the manufacturers of these durable
woods. which is great help in
choosing the right kind of fence for
your house. The fences have been
designed by 10y Chamberlain, we'll
known architect. When you see
them pictured with the kind of
houses they go with" you realize
how important proper styling is,
even in the matter of fences.
There are the widely spaced fences
for a Cape Cod cottage, stream
lined" fence of horizontal boards for
a modern house. the split rail rustic
fence for French provincial, a criss-
crossed fence for Monterey Colonial
ranch houses. a solid fence with
varied top trim for English cottages,
and simple pointed rallied fence for
Colonial houses Each gives you ideas
which might well be adapted for your
own home. and your lumber dealer
can cut the wood especially for you.
Before summer is really here, why
not give your home the attractive
frame it deserves?
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We daresay there isn't a home in
the country where things don't fall
apart some time in the course of a
year. And each time somebody is
sure to say: 'If I only had some
thing to fix it with"
Why not see to it that some
thing to fix it with" is on hand
when household accidents, large or
small occur? There is an adhesive
on the market which will glue to-
gether any two materials, whether
similar or not-wood and metal,
wallboard and paper plastic and foil,
any Of the myriads of new materials
which We have in our houses today
1t is called flexible cement and
comes in various sizes from five gall
Ions to small tubes which cost only
a quarter. With it you can glue to-
gether broken furniture. picture
frames, linoleum. bookbinding, pack
ages-oh. anything at all
This universal adhesive is made