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the water boiling until the glue is all dissolv^ed, and is about the 

 consistence of thick molasses. The tea-kettle may now be removed 

 from the fire, but keep the glue-pail in the hot water in order to 

 keep the glue warm. 



When glue is prepared by placing the vessel which contains it 

 on the stove, it is very liable to be burned, which will spoil it. 

 But when it is heated in hot water, there is no danger of heating 

 glue too hot while the glue-pot is in water. Procure a small paint- 

 brush for handling the glue, and always keep the brush in the glue. 

 When the glue appears too thick, pour in a little hot water, and stir 

 it up thoroughly. When it is too thin, either boil it down or drop 

 in a little more glue. Every surface to which glue is applied 

 should be thoroughly warmed before the glue is laid on, and things 

 that have been glued together should be kept in a warm place until 

 the glue has become hard. With a few cents worth of glue, and a 

 cheap glue-pail, prepared in the foregoing manner, almost any 

 person can unite broken articles in a neat and satisfactory manner 

 at a trifling expense. 



HOW TO MAKE CONE FRAMES. 



Mr. S. Edwards Todd. — There is a great deal of real beauty in 

 cone frames; and more than this, they tell of artistic skill and 

 good taste and practical utility, which is never thought of when we 

 are looking at a rich and costly gilt frame. Pictures of every 

 description and character are inclosed in cone frames, and the most 

 fastidious in such matters exclaim, before they are aware of it, 

 " How beautiful that is." The most costly kinds of photographs, 

 of large size, are put in cone frames of an elliptical form; and pic- 

 tures that you have had for a long time, hoping to have them 

 framed, would look well in square cone frames, which you can 

 make with your own fingers just as well as a robin can build her 

 nest. The expense will be but a few cents each, besides the glass. 

 Preparing the materials to operate with is the main part of the 

 business. 



There are many ways of preparing the bodies of cone frames. 

 The body of a small elliptical frame, for a photographic likeness, 

 may be made of a few thicknesses of pasteboard, glued or pasted 

 together; or it may be sawed out of a seasoned piece of thin or 

 thick board, according to the size desired, and the surface dressed 

 ofi" smoothly. Or the form may be circular or square, or octagonal, 

 to suit the fancy. A very common way of making them is to use 



