VAndike OTO8

732 DECATUR STREET tOS ANGELES 2I, CALIFORNIA

([) Seols home ogoinsl heol, cold, wind and dust.

@ Shuts out roin. lt is ospholt imnreqnoted.

@ eoes'up -eosily-reduces lobor costs.

@ Srrengrhens brccing strength of lhe structure.

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AII Fir-f ex lnsuloting Board producls ore termite prool.

Interior Finish

For odding thot erlro roon wilhin the home, lo. finirhing the irtiic oa bqrement, for oll remodeling iobi-reccmmend tir-Tex Color Ponels ond Tile. lt in. suloles oi it builds; ii eory to use. Fits in ideolly with the soec,oculor presenl-doy "do it your:elf" trend.

Backer Board

Fir-Tex Eocker Boord climinotes lhe slow, fime consuming job of undercourse shingling ond building poper op- pli(otion. lt oddr inrulotion, culi building cosfs, givos o smoolher, neoler oppeoronce. lf odds beouty wilh uniforn, deep shodow line3...ond ir ospholt idpreg noted.

Ofiice Above

Irvin Cobb had a favorite story he liked to tell, about Dr. Thomas Riley, a whiskey-loving doctor of the old days, who nevertheless throughout his life furnished free the medical help and advice to the poor and needy in his home town. His fortunes drifted ever downward, and finally for want of rent money he had to move his office upstairs over the local livery stable, where they gave him the rent free.

So he put a sign at the bottom of the livery stable stairs that read-"Doctor Thomas Riley; His office is now up-, stairs." He continued to l'end his aid free to the sick and the unfortunate wherever and whenever he could, and finally, when he died, his sorrowing townspeople buried him with honors, and then simply moved his sign from the bottom of the livery stable stairs to the grave where he lay, so that it continued to read:

"Doctor Thomas Riley-His office is now upstairs."

In Spring

In spring the birds build their nests, or rebuild those of last year. Humans do likewise.

The house, the yard, the garden, the poultry yard, the sheds, the barns, the fences, everything that has to do with man and his possessions, is looked over with a critical eye in the spring.

And almost everything the normal human does as he goes around his home place in the spring can be translated into thoughts of building things.

Every improvement and beautification that comes to his or her mind, calls for boards, and nails, and paint. It's a natural, normal urge that's as old as mankind.

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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating. And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fiIl the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a Man, my son! -Rudyard Kipling

He Knew Who

Two Marines were sitting in the public library, and one of them was fairly buried in a book he was reading, seeing which the other asked him:

"What book is that you're so interested in?-'

The other said:

"What Millions of Women Want."

The other Marine reached for the book.

"Lemme see," he said, "Have they got my name spelled right?"

Her Entire Ncrme

ft was in a rural district in Alabama that Mrs. Gibbons heard a fat, colored woman calling loudly from her porch:

"Larseeney-Larseeney-come heah Larseeney ! I wants you right now chil'e."

And when the little colored girl came running to her mother, the white woman, her curiosity aroused, asked what she had called the little girl.

"I done called huh Larseeney," said the other.

"Is that her real name?" Mrs. Gibbons asked.

"Yassum. Sho is. But h'it ain't huh ENTIAH name."

"No? Then what is here entire name?"

Pride lighted up the mother's face, as she answered:

"Huh entiah name is Petty Larseeney."

Scotch Woiting

The automobile salesman had been trying for hours to sell the car to the Scotchman, but the prospective buyer continued to hesitate.

As the salesman drove Sandy around, demonstrating the fine points of the car, he said:

"Watch how she performs when I throw in the clutch."

"f'U take her," said the Scot quickly. "I've just been waiting for you to throw in something."

Thot Would Be Silly

The drunk staggered into the Automat and put two nickels into a slot. His mouth popped open in astonishment when a piece of apple pie came out. Quickly he got a handful of nickels and began feeding the same slot. When the tenth piece of apple pie came out, the manager, who had been looking on, said to the drunk:

"Don't you think you'd better stop?"

The drunk said: "Don't be silly ! Why should I quit when I'm winning?"