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When The Painting Fever Attacks

BY ELIZABETH MacRAE BOYKIN

There comes a time in the life and left-over paint. When you go of almost

every lady when a great to work you'll want clean, rags and urge comes swelling up to do a lots of old newspapers. Better buy job on that old dresser.. to add good paint, or you'll wish you had. a new group of book shelves to the Cheap paint is seldom worth the library to go all the way and work. change the whole colour scheme of the house or flat.,

"A FEW RULES When painting a chair, place it PAUSE BEFORE YOU PAINT on a table or box where you can get Cover But watch out. There are an at it without stooping. awful lot of dauby paint jobs let everything underneath your actual loose on the world by over-piece to be painted with

There's a good papers to catch the drippings.

news-

enthusia to business ofTo paint a table, turn it upside]

deal more

painting furniture than just buy-down, and do the legs first. Then turn rightside up and finish the top..

When you feel the urge to paint.

Always take the drawers out of a dresser or cabinet before paint- ing.. Put them back in when pieces are thoroughly dry. ́.

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Don't." let paint, lacquer ör varnish dry on your brush. Clean it at once or you may as well say, So long, brush." Soak varnish brushes in varnish remover. Shel- lac brushes can be cleaned in alcohol. Paint brushes are clean- ed with turpentine, or paint re- mover: Lacquer brushes need lacquer thinner. To clean a gilt brush, use lacquer thinner or gilt thinner.

-THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 18, 1988.

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(Copyright, 1938, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

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"It's love we are told that makes the world go around," says pertinant Polly, "but it seems cause of many automobiles to stop."

it look gritty,

Be very careful about paint and keep it away from an open flame! Dust Watch out about the children too

kel-paint is often poisonous.

To darken a colour, add black. To lighten a colour, add white.

Wear an n old smock or apron, or you'll be dauby no matter how much care you take.

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ing a pot of paint and going to it.

Dampness will slow up drying. If you are the kind who dislikes to waste time and believes that a job Cold" will injure a finish. worth doing is worth doing well, a will settle on wet paint and few rules will help make that little painting chore into a joy forever, or anyway for a good long time.

A painting shelf in the pantry is good idea if you're likely to make habit of it. On this shelf you should keep several sheets of sand- paper (grades 00 and 000), a small Wooden-block to wrap the sand- paper around when you're ready to give the surface a little roughage, turpentine, wood filler, wood alcohol, a metal scraper, linseed oil, a wooden paddle to stir paint, a small knife, putty, good brushes

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