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House 
& Garden 
Fly-Screens 
the fear 
Around! 
How often, during 
the warm days of 
late Fall and early 
Spring, you would 
like to throw the windows wide open— 
to let in the clear fresh air—and at the 
same time have the windows screened 
from top to bottom. 
You can not do this with ordinary win¬ 
dows and ordinary fly-screens, for with 
these the screens must come down in the 
Fall and stay down until Summer ap¬ 
proaches. In the 
LU N K EN 
Unit-Window 
the fly-screens are easily raised into the 
window-box, secure against the attack of 
any weather, b u t available instantly 
should a fine day make their use desir¬ 
able. Then you can open the windows 
all the way safely screened from top to 
bottom. 
There are many other interesting fea¬ 
tures in the Lunken Unit-Window that 
you should know about if you are con¬ 
sidering the building of a new house. 
Ask your architect, or, if you prefer, we 
will send you illustrated literature on 
request. 
THE LUNKEN WINDOW COMPANY 
UNIT-WINDOWS 
Executive Offices and Works: 4016 Cherry St., Cincinnati 
New York: 512 Fifth Avenue 
Chicago: 175 W. Jackson Blvd. 
(Lunken Unit-Windows are exhibited at the Architectural 
Samples Corporation, 101 Park Avenue, New York, and at the 
Building Material Exhibit. 175 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago.) 
Woodwork stained 
and varnished 
makes an inter¬ 
esting kitchen 
where there is 
plenty of light 
Kitchen Cosmetics 
(Continued from page 72) 
“The second coat, which in many in¬ 
stances is also (improperly) the finish¬ 
ing coat, should be tempered accord¬ 
ingly. If there are to be three coats (as 
there should be), the paint should be 
slightly reduced with turpentine or ben¬ 
zine, so as to promote amalgamation 
with the priming coat, and to reduce the 
surface gloss. If it is to be the finish¬ 
ing coat, prepared paint of the average 
consistency can be used without reduc¬ 
tion, but a very little turpentine is some¬ 
times desirable to assist penetration and 
adhesion. 
“The third or finishing coat should 
usually be employed as it comes from 
the can. In the case of all coats, 
thorough, hard brushing is essential, and 
a round brush is always preferable to a 
flat brush. The failure of paint is fre¬ 
quently due to insufficient ‘elbow 
grease’ with the brush. 
“Every coat of paint should be com¬ 
pletely dry throughout before the next 
coat is applied; but it is a mistake to 
allow a priming coat to ‘weather’ and 
become weakened before painting is con¬ 
tinued. 
“Too much drier or Japan, or cheap 
rosin Japans, are at the bottom of many 
paint failures. The manufacturer of a 
scientifically prepared paint will intro¬ 
duce the proper kind and quantity of 
driers into his formula, and none should 
be added in use.” 
A fit condition of surface is obtained 
by: 
(1) By delaying the application of 
the priming coat until the wood is 
thoroughly seasoned, unless seasoning 
has been properly attended to in the 
lumber; secondly, by seeing that the 
plaster on the inside of the building is 
completely dry before painting is begun 
on the outside. A new house should 
have been heated some weeks before it 
is painted. In an old house, leaking 
spouts, etc. should be repaired and the 
adjacent wood allowed to dry thor¬ 
oughly before repainting. Thirdly, by 
avoiding the application of paint in 
moist weather or when the atmospheric 
moisture is high. Fourthly, by selecting 
a dry, mild season, as late spring or early 
fall, rather than a cold or hot season, 
as winter or mid-summer, for the work. 
Fifthly, by seeing that sappy or resinous 
spots in new lumber are properly treated 
before painting. Sixthly, by due care on 
old work that all loose paint and dust 
are removed by scraping, sand-papering, 
wire-brushing, dusting or, if necessary, 
burning, before new paint is applied. 
As a rule, it should always be remem¬ 
bered that two thin coats thoroughly 
brushed out are better in most cases 
than one thick coat, and that repaint¬ 
ing should never be delayed until the 
under coats begin to loosen seriously. 
Only when conditions are favorable 
should the householder be his own 
painter. In any case he should study 
carefully the directions on the can, and 
unless they are found to apply to his 
particular job, should consult either the 
manufacturer or a practical painter for 
fuller advice. 
(Continued on page 76) 
By the use of white paint this little kitchen in the summer bungalow of 
G. Bovard MacBride, decorator , is made a sanitary and pleasant place 
