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House: Inside detail

Cloth ceilings

Cloth ceilings: Mrs. Zahay's father used to put
them up, even for other people. He did
it just to be neighborly--did it for nothing.

He used printed cloth or white cloth.

Afterwards, beaverboard--like a stiff pressed paper--
began to be used for ceilings.

[This section has a bracket in the left margin with the word "omit": People started to tack "the goods" up. After a while, whitewash kept falling down on floor. Used to take it down & wash & put back up. 1 Ceiling lasted "couple years." Men & women used to help father. Some men were handy, some weren't.]

People started to tack up cloth ceilings ("tack the goods up") when the many layers of whitewash applied to the bare ceiling beams began to crumble & fall on the floor.

People used to take down these cloth ceilings & wash them, then tack it up again. 1 ceiling used to last "a couple of years."

Both men & women used to help her father put up ceiling. Some women did it, some were not handy enough to do it.