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Polish White

This is made by grinding dry zinc-white with white varnish, and affords a beautiful glossy finish, to be laid on after the second coat. A more perfect surface may be obtained by covering the second coat with several other coats of hard drying paint, putty, and the wall be painted in gloss color, the streaks of putty are very apt to be flat (no gloss), and if painted in flat color, the streaks are quite sure to have a gloss. These streaks, of course, will spoil the beauty of the work, but do not affect its durability. When filled with plaster of Paris the reversion of gloss never appears, if done as directed below.

If the cracks be only in the wash, the latter mixed with turpentine, Japan and litharge; is loosening from the wall; and if it has not then rubbing down with pumice-stone, fol- begun to scale, it soon will, and all attempts lowed by a coat of polish white, and finished to fasten it on and paint it will be total loss. with a flow coat of white varnish containing If it be loose enough to scrape off, scrape the a little zinc-white. Although this requires wall, taking care not to gouge into the original more time and trouble, the result will fully wall. If not loose enough, let it alone until compensate for it. It is necessary to remark it is. If the wash be thin, solid, and even, it that when the last coat is to be glossy, the can be painted to look and wear well. When previous coat must be flat or dead; and a flat the surface is lumpy, rub the lumps off with coat for finishing should be preceded by a a sandstone, or a brick. After a wall has somewhat glossy coat. been prepared, as in either of above cases, or 2761. Το Mix Oil Colors. In mixing if a wall that has never been washed is to different colored paints to produce any desired be painted, size it with 2 coats of glue size (3 tint, it is best to have the principal ingredient ounces glue to 1 gallon water). (See No. thick, and add to it the other paints thinner. 2815.) Be sure the glue is all dissolved before In the following table of the combinations of using any of it. Let the first coat dry before colors required to produce a required tint, the second coat is put on. wards the Spanish white. It is, in general, indifferent which of the oils above mentioned you use; but, for pure white, oil of poppy is