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1904] A stained and varnished floor with a rug in the center will complete this room, which, if nicely decorated, will be the pride of the boy who did it and an inspiration for others.



scheme for the decoration of a boy’s room is shown in.

The paneled wainscot is formed with vertical strips of wood, four inches wide and four feet high, mounted above the surbase. On top of these a six-inch band of wood is carried all around the room, on which a five-inch ledge is mounted and supported with brackets, which line with the center of the vertical strips. The doors, door and window casings, surbase and wainscot rails are painted white, and all the hardware is black. Hinge-straps of sheet-lead are cut and fastencd to the doors and casings with large oval-headed nails, and to cover the panels in the doors one large panel is made from thin wood covered with burlap and nailed fast to the side of the door facing the room, with large-headed nails or with mock nail-heads not less than one inch in diameter. Ledges four inches wide are placed over the door and window-casings and supported with brackets at the ends that line with the middle of the casing uprights.

The walls above the wainscot ledge are papered, and the panels in the wainscot are covered with burlap and glued to the wall. The burlap on the panels and door may be in a coffee-color or light brown, and the paper in a light shade of old green.

The ledge on top of the wainscot is a capital place for smaller pictures, curios, paint-boxes, small books, and the generous assortment of all kinds of things a boy will collect in his association with other boys or on his vacations.

The will contain a timely article telling how boys may make ice-boats, skees, skate-sails, bob-sleds, snow-shoes, etc.