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To Color Whitewash

Coloring matter may be put in and made of any shade.

Spanish brown stirred in will make red pink, more or less deep according to the quantity.

A delicate tinge of this is very pretty for inside walls. Finely pulverized common clay, well mixed with Spanish brown, make a reddish stone color. Yellow ochre stirred in makes yellow wash, but chrome goes further, and makes a color generally esteemed prettier.

In all these cases the darkness of the shades of course is determined by the quantity of coloring used. It is difficult to make rules, because tastes are different; it would be best to try experiments on a shingle and let it dry.

Green must not be mixed with lime. The lime destroys the color, and the color has an effect on the whitewash, which makes it crack and peel. When walls have been badly smoked, and you wish to have them a clean white, it is well to squeeze indigo plentifully kalsomine, provided the liquid is spread through a bag into the water you use, before smoothly. Expensive brushes, made express- it is stirred in the whole mixture. ly for kalsomining, may be obtained at brush 2799. Zinc Whitewash. Mix oxide of factories, and at some drug and hardware zinc with common size, and apply it with a stores. But a good whitewashbrush, having whitewash-brush to the ceiling. After this, long and thick hair, will do very well. In apply in the same manner a wash of chloride case the liquid is so thick that it will not flow of zinc, which will combine with the oxide from the brush so as to make smooth work, to form a smooth cement with a shining suradd a little more hot water. When applying face. the kalsomine, stir it frequently. Dip the 2800. A Fine Whitewash for Walls. brush often, and only so deep in the liquid as Soak + pound of glue over night in tepid wato take as much as the hair will retain with- ter. The next day put it into a tin vessel out letting large drops fall to the floor If too with a quart of water, set the vessel in a much glue be added, the kalsomine cannot be kettle of water over a fire, keep it there till laid on smoothly, and will be liable to crack. it boils, and then stir until the glue is dissolv- The aim should be to apply a thin layer of siz-ed. Next put from 6 to 8 pounds Paris white PAPER HANGING. into another vessel, add hot water, and stir wash-brush, wet the wall you wish to paper, until it has the appearance of milk of lime. with the starch; let it dry; then, when you Add the sizing, stir well, and apply in the or- wish to apply the paper, wet the wall and dinary way, while still warm. Except on paper both with the starch, and apply the pavery dark and smoky walls and ceilings, a per. Walls have been papered in this way single coat is sufficient. It is nearly equal in that have been whitewashed 10 or even 20 brilliancy to zinc-white (a far more expensive years successively, and the paper has never article), and is very highly recommended by those who have used it. Paris white is sulphate of baryta, and may be found at any drug or paint store.