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House & Garden 
Send for the descriptive book of the 
* Double" 
Sterling 
The 40 feature, 2 oven, 2 fuel range 
made to help solve the housekeeping problem for busy women 
by a firm with 70 years’ experience in stove and range building. 
Find out why its 40 distinctive features make the work in 
your kitchen more easy and more attractive for either maid 
or mistress and at the same time actually reduce food and 
fuel bills. 
SILL STOVE WORKS, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
ESTABLISHED 1849 
Makers of Coal Ranges, Combination Ranges and Warm Air Furnaces. 
If you haven’t gas 
connection send 
for our book on 
the 
SterlingRange 
The range that 
bakes a barrel of 
flour with a single 
hod of coal. 
Cupboards built in around the ice box make a good pantry. The white 
or gray woodwork preserves the atmosphere of cleanliness. Courtesy 
of the Frigidaire Corp. 
Kitchen Cosmetics 
(Continued from page 74) 
Ceilings and walls of the kitchen are 
improved by the application of flat 
washes, calcimines, etc., of which there 
are many on the market. These surfaces 
are easily kept clean and sanitary and 
for this reason have been used instead of 
papers in the kitchen. All discolorations 
and dirt, grease and dust are removable 
by soap and water. The best paints are 
not poisonous and are a great factor in 
home sanitation. 
The kitchen floor is a more difficult 
problem, as the wear and tear is so much 
greater than suffered by the walls. 
However, paint and varnish manufac¬ 
turers have the problem well in hand 
and there are paints and stains on the 
market and varnishes, too, which with¬ 
stand wear and tear, heat, grease, steam, 
gases and every other normal nuisance. 
Of course, this holds good only if they 
are applied correctly. Floor varnishes 
should dry in forty-eight hours. Dress¬ 
ings for revivifying linoleums are on the 
market, but beware of poor ones. 
Don’t be afraid to investigate! This 
is another mandate to the Domiologist! 
And bear in mind that floor varnishes 
and stains should be able to stand drag¬ 
ging furniture and foot wear, should be 
tough, withstand shock or abrasion, 
and be unaffected by normal contact 
with moisture. Good surfacers will give 
enduring service and will permit the 
scrubbing and washing of floors almost 
indefinitely. New coats can be added as 
the wear and tear demands. In addition 
to paints there are varnishes and stains 
combined which give the effect of nat¬ 
ural stain, and these applied to floors 
are more than satisfactory. These com¬ 
binations, too, are useful on linoleums 
that have aged. These materials are 
made, it must be understood, to stand 
wear. Do not ever think of applying a 
wall stain or paint to the floor, as the 
floor compositions are made to with¬ 
stand different use. Before using a 
stain, etc., on linoleum it is well to get 
advice from a linoleum firm or a top- 
notch paint firm. 
Enamels or Pigment Varnishes 
Probably nothing gives the Domiolo¬ 
gist more delight than the effect a fine 
white enamel gives the objects over 
which it is laid. Here is a way to keep 
the kitchen a real blond! 
There are many of these enamels on 
the market which give the refreshing 
aspect to the kitchen. Many of them 
have the appearance of porcelain, and 
can be kept clean with as little trouble. 
They can be bought in the glossy finish 
or the flat or dull or mat finish. All 
the woodwork of the kitchen can be 
treated with enamels if a charming 
kitchen is wanted. 
The high cost of construction to-day 
demands the protecting powers of paints. 
The beauty theory of paint still holds 
good, but the protective power is pre¬ 
dominant and most important. 
The use of a good floor oil has been 
proven by Dr. Wallace Maunheimer to 
reduce the quantity of dust in a room 
from 80% to 100%. Flying dust is the 
aeroplane of disease. Oils, paint and 
varnish the anti-aircraft guns! 
And, finally, read the directions on 
the can, get the admirable books of 
directions mailed gratis by the service 
departments of manufacturers of paint, 
and buy the best. 
And do not fail to realize that the 
•kitchen with a good complexion augurs 
well for the complexion of every one in 
the house. 
Note: (The writer wishes to acknowl¬ 
edge her indebtedness to Mr. G. B. 
Heckel’s booklets on varnish and paint, 
from which many of the quotations in 
this article are taken.) 
