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OUR HOME DEPARTMENT
bands of vulcanized oak seen at the inner
and outer edges of the border are enough
darker than the body of the floor to give
distinction, yet show simply a deepening
of the same natural oaken tone. The in-
laid design in the natural white maple
gives life to the grave hues of the oak, and
yet blends with them so as not to appear
too prominent. The same combination
of woods is shown in Fig. 4, with a differ-
ent border design.
   One of the most pleasing effects to be
obtained in a floor is shown in Fig. 5.
This is built of white quartered oak left
in its natural color; the keys are of vul-
canized oak. The design is so quiet that
the beauty of the floor can hardly be ap-
HOW ONE WOMAN IS
T   HE state of Tennessee is four hundred
     miles wide, and the real mountains
are on its eastern border. We speak of
our home as in the mountains when in
fact it is on the Cumberland Plateau in
the south-central part of the state.
   Sewanee, the seat of the University of
the South, is sixty-five miles west of Chat-
tanooga and ninety-four miles south of
Nashville. It is twenty-one hundred feet
above the sea and has a climate and
scenery much like Italy. Spring lasts
from March until September and Autumn
from   September until January. Eight
weeks of cold weather is considered a long
and unusually hard winter. In summer
time the thermometer ranges from 70 to
90 degrees at midday, but the nights are
always cool, two blankets being the rule
for covering. A fire is often welcome
after sundown during July and August,
while in September it is needed morning
and evening. The days are beautiful and
the nights perfect, the atmosphere being so
clear that the stars seem not so far away,
while the Milky Way is a great belt of
white light. Myriads of new worlds have
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preciated at the first glance, but it is a con-
stantly growing delight to live with. If
the floor is to be stained to match the
woodwork, the color value of boards and
keys will remain the same, as the vulcan-
ized oak will simply show a darker shade
of the same color. This floor, having
wide boards, is best if built up of three-ply
like the teakwood.
   Fig. 6 illustrates a floor stained in gray
 and green tones, with the corner design in
 the natural yellow of sumach. The cen-
 ter and outer border may be of red birch
 slightly stained green, ard the broad band
 and corners of silver gray maple. The
 petals of the flower design can be of the
 sumach, and the centers of any dark wood.
 BUILDING HER HOME
 come within our ken since viewing the
 sky from Mt. Sewanee.
   Our little estate is situated three and a
 half miles from Sewanee on the Tantallon
 Road, which old woods road now goes
 nowhere save to Wandy. At one time it
 went down the mountain to a French
 town from which it took its name. The
 strip of land lying between this road and
 the cliff is long and very narrow, so we
 thought Wandy, "long and narrow like a
 wand," a suggestive name. However, the
 choice of this name was because Mr. Mil-
 burn's boyhood home in Northumberland
 under the shadow of the Cheviot Hills
 was called Wandy, which is the Scotch for
 windy. This meaning also suits our strip
 of cliffland, though the breezes never blow
 too hard in summer time.
   We have built our home within a hun-
 dred feet of the edge of the beetling cliff
 which forms a natural barrier. We need
 no fence, save on the road side and at the
 end where we join the University ground.
'The fence is of chestnut rails. The tall
barkless dead chestnut trees were an un-
sightly feature; then this wood shares with