HOUSE PAINTING. 



The following receipts and directions are condensed from 

 a practical English work on the art of house painting. 

 They are principally designed for the inexperienced and 

 those who, living at a distance from cities, have great diffi- 

 culty in obtaining first-class workmen. 



To make the work satisfactory, it is very necessary for the 

 workman to have very clean all the vessels, brushes, and cans 

 he may require in the course of his work, such as the vari- 

 ous paints, pots, or vessels in which he mixes or from which 

 he uses his colors. These are sometimes bought at the 

 shops, handsomely made of stout tin, and such are easily 

 kept clean, and save their expense in color, which is readily 

 brushed down their smooth sides. He will also require a 

 marble slab and muller, to grind the finer colors used in 

 painting. Sometimes a small cast-iron mill is useful not 

 only to grind colors, but to pass the tinted color through, so 

 that it may be more thoroughly mixed. 



It is presumed the workman will know what brushes he 

 will require, according to the work he has in hand. 



In preparing to paint a good dwelling, after having ob- 

 tained the necessary colors and brushes, see that you have a 

 few pounds of good pumice stone, a quire or two of assorted 

 sand paper, to smooth the inequalities in the work ; some 



