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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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and crowded out much of the grass. Take 
a sharp toothed rake and carefully pull 
these runners or creeping stalks to the sur¬ 
face, then run the lawn mower over with 
the knives lowered so that it will cut very 
close to the ground. The plant is of an¬ 
nual nature, dying each fall, but its seeds 
come up each June unless prevented in 
this manner. 
• In the places left bare by these opera¬ 
tions, work the soil loose and sow good 
seed. It will have time to become well es¬ 
tablished before frost, and indeed if this 
procedure is carried out, the lawn should 
look its best by the last of October. 
Facts and Figures in Connection 
With Outside Painting. 
(Continued from page 175.) 
tionary, and by three times the girth for 
rolling slat blinds. The measurements of 
window sash are obtained by multiplying 
the height by one and one-half times the 
width, and if fancy by three times the 
width. The surface area of the columns 
is obtained by multiplying the height by 
one and one-half the girth, and fluted 
columns by twice the girth. Tin roofs 
and flat sides are measured by simply mul¬ 
tiplying length and breadth. Chimneys, 
conductors, spouts, barge boards and 
crestings are estimated by multiplying the 
length by four times the girth. In dip¬ 
ping shingles one thousand shingles are 
estimated for each four hundred square 
feet of finished surface. 
It will be seen that this estimate of the 
surface area of the house to be painted is 
quite different from simply multiplying 
height by the breadth. But it is necessary 
in order to include in the surface all the 
small under parts that must be touched. 
The professional painter must take cog¬ 
nizance of this, more on account of the 
time required for painting than because of 
the extra paint. It requires nearly twice 
as much time to paint a broken than a flat 
surface, although nearly the same amount 
of paint may be used on each. The sim¬ 
ple, plain houses which are so much in 
fashion to-day are therefore cheaper to 
repaint than those broken up with many 
gables, balconies, and gingerbread orna¬ 
ments. To paint a house of the latter 
type a painter will add nearly one-third to 
his estimate for a plain house. So in the 
long run the plain house of straight sim¬ 
ple lines is not only cheaper to build, but 
less expensive to keep in repairs and well 
painted. 
After making his estimate of surface 
area—which by the way is generally one- 
third more than the area obtained by sim¬ 
ply multiplying the length by the breadth, 
or one-half more for a house elaborately 
ornamented and broken up—the painter 
usually charges for work and paint ma¬ 
terials at the rate of ten cents per square 
yard for one coat, and thirty cents for 
three coats. This is for new work. For 
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