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Popular Science Monthly 



The inconveni- 

 ence of painting 

 overhead is ob- 

 viated by using 

 a shield brush 

 which prevents 

 the paint from 

 dripping and 

 splashing on the 

 painter 



Protecting the Painter from Paint 



WMKN it is necessary to paint a 

 window or any object overhead 

 the paint or Hquid usually runs off the 

 handle of the brush and then over the 

 worker's hands. If you will lake two 

 pieces of tin soldered at the ends, and 

 tack them on either side of the brush 

 below the bristles, you will have a little 

 cup which catches this overflow paint. 

 Each time the brush is dipped into the 

 paint-can the shield is autt)matically 

 emptied. — C. H. TiU)MAS. 



Uses for Wire-Glass on the Farm 



THl-lRI^ are main i)la(is in and about 

 the farm buildings where a stout, 

 tough glass can be used to advantage. 

 Wire-glass answers the purpose. 



It is exceedingly strong, resists high 

 winds, hail storms, and is an acknowl- 

 edged jjrotection against fire. Imbedded 

 within the body of the glass is a meshed 



wire made of iron which has a higher 

 fusing point than glass. When glass is 

 exposed to fire it becomes more or less 

 plastic. Ordinary glass will crack, bend 

 or shatter. With wire-glass the mesh 

 which acts as a skeleton holds it in place. 

 E\en if the glass cracks, the pieces are 

 prevented from falling, and sf)arks will 

 not find an entrance. 



When made wire-glass is poured over a 

 red-hot iron table to the desired thick- 

 ness. Red-hot woven wire-netting is 

 then fed out from a machine, rolled, and 

 pressed into this glass surface. The 

 surface is smoothed or corrugated, 

 r.ccording to the finish desired. It is 

 then annealed to give it high resisting 

 (jualities. Wire-glass has the further 

 advantage of not being readily affected 

 by vibrations, and its great strength 

 enables it to hold up unusual weights of 

 snow and ice. 



Many buildings on the farm would be 

 improved by more light, but an ordinary 

 pane of glass would not be strong 

 enough. Here wire-glass can be used to 

 advantage, giving more light from the 

 roof or sides of the chicken-house, stable, 

 or barn. 



The farmhouse attic is often a dark, 

 inaccessible place, which, if properly 

 lighted, would serve as a valuable store- 

 room or a delightful playhouse for the 

 children in stormy weather. Here wure- 

 glass can be used for skylights or 

 partitions. — E. G. Wallace. 



A tobacco or coffee can when cut and bent 



into the proper shape, makes a useful 



scoop with an old paint-brush handle 



A Home-Made Scoop 



A HANDY little scoop may be matlc 

 by trimming an empty tobacco or 

 vegetable can to the shape in the chaw- 

 ing. To make the handle, take an old 

 r)aint-brush, cut its handle off, and 

 screw it to the bottom of the can with 

 a round-headed screw and nut. 



