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to mani That French walnut f rom the Rhone vafleyV is the aristocrat of al Woods; Ati do' you know that though there may ilot bc a purpiek'ow, there may. be purpie wooti? The 'manr who knows the question and'i answer business about wood, flot- only, for this' countrye but for the 'world. is a Winnetka chap who came over f romn London 11 years ago to set up a North, Ameni- cai- South American office for his family firm. Williami Mallinson. He operates at 433 E. Erie street. Chii- cago. under the name J. H. Smith Veneers. mnc. The J. H., by the wa y. stands for John Henry. Mr. Smithb is a rudtiy-faced cbap with a brisk mianner-anti Englisb accent. His office andi bis'factory, are filleti with objets d'art pertain- ing to Wood andi veneers, paintings in Wood . murals in Wood, piles of, veneer., He himself is filleti with ideas anti informiation about Woodi. anti decorate bis furniture. He tiescribeti eartiestly% bis feeling for the functional use of furniture. Decora- tion is flot interesting to himi, if the decoration be un a chair that is tiot comfortable, a table that is not practical. He told mne of the work of the V'encer association. i,. shcrter, on.1y 11 minutes, designed to put glainor iinti'wod anti their uses in home andi office, train: andi airpiane. If Mrs. America miould only buy. her fulrnittirt as,,she buys. ber bats. witb the idea of 1 tkn like, Mrs. Vantierbilt- Astor-.vy.ou g et the idea: 'fbe stburc _s0o sone of the wood tiseti to. finish hantisomet interiors ini Chicago andi elsewhere madie gooti ge .grap)liiical copy, packed 'witb humlail i;îteresî. Veneer men', tlke ,al ,othiers enigage;! in enthusiastic plying of their îraçle, deliglit ini finding ,itiîrals'" for their purpose. Everyone. froîîî tbe .beati of tbe firm down, is constantly. A in tbe lookout fojr 3finds" ithe mioi of stuinps and >oId trees... One of tbenost distinigýilîiched in<1s of the Esnglisb lfrîn %was tifilad-liy John Henry Smithb binself. I lé lat bcesi a niemiber of the 4<.îh squacroli of the Briih air -force d<i*ngth 1e, World war anti near isl> a..v iM Shropshire hati noticeil a verý tiw olti tree. It looketi like good v~unccr material to hinm. Vbei the \var wa;i over, he went fack povsoal > view it,' and the eventual Ipurcliatse anti sawing revealed iov 'wg. .s at guess be had matie. A walnut tree froni NI rto! campus at Oxford universitv is n11W being appreciatéti by CiicagEôatis ho. mis sanie ar was a seven. tapestty. '/ anti difficut promiseti to .Mr. Smith how historically interesting wood froni this tnee woulti be. Froin the tree came 72L(JO(Ifecet of walnut. The butt was so buge tliat pit sawyers bati to be eniffloyeti to cut it up inito Sections. wilîi couldi iat a