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Painting in Milk

In conse- of Paris, or the same quantity of fine white quence of the injury which has often resulted clay, is to be added to the above proporto sick and weakly persons from the smell of tions of the other ingredients. All these common paint, the following method of paint- ingredients being mingled, the mixture must ing with milk has been adopted by some workmen, which, for the interior of buildings, besides being as free as distemper from any offensive odor, is said to be nearly equal to oil-painting in body and durability. Take 1/2 gallon skimmed milk, 6 ounces lime newly slacked, 4 ounces poppy, linseed, or nut oil, and 3 pounds Spanish white. Put the lime into an earthen vessel or clean bucket, and then be strained through a fine sieve, and afterwards ground in a color mill. When roofs are to be covered, or when crumbling brick walls are to be coatel, fine white sand is mixed with the paint, in the proportion of 1 pound sand to 10 gallons of paint; this addition being made with a view of giving the ingredients a binding or petrifying quality.

This paint should always be applied in a hot having poured on it a sufficient quantity of state, and in very cold weather precautions milk to make it about the thickness of cream, are necessary to keep it from freezing. Three add the oil in small quantities at a time, stir- coats of this paint are deemed, in most cases, ring the mixture with a wooden spatula. sufficient. Any color may be obtained by Then put in the rest of the milk, and after- | adding the usual pigments to the composition.