74 ARTS AND MANUFACTURES. 
USE OF EGGS IN ARTS AND 
MANUFACTURES. 
They are also decorated and mounted as vases. 
Powdered shells are used in the manufacture 
of imitation ivory. 
The adhesive nature of the white makes it a 
useful glue or cement, especially when mixed 
with brick dust, plaster of Paris, gum mastic, 
lime, or the Chinese use it with powdered 
olass to mend China. 
The albumen of the egg white is largely used 
as a varnish for cards and paintings, and in 
photography and calico printing. 
The Alsatians alone use thirty-eight million 
annually. 
