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and tone to the shadows in the shallow 
scars or depressions. Last of all, the sur¬ 
face is given a coat of orange shellac. If 
the coat is diluted and thin it will produce 
a yellowish golden tone; if somewhat 
thick, the tone will verge toward a reddish 
gold. This wall treatment is susceptible 
of several interesting variations. Then, 
again, a concrete wall may be whitewashed 
with excellent effect. There are certain 
styles of architecture in which white or 
gray walls, slightly rough, above a simple 
wainscot of plain and close-fitted vertical 
boards of oak, chestnut or deal may be 
highly appropriate. Whitewash possesses 
the advantages over paint of being exceed¬ 
ingly cheap and much easier to apply. It 
may be made absolutely fast so that it will 
not rub off by mixing according to the 
Government formula usually known as the 
“lighthouse mixture.” It is as follows: 
Slake a half bushel of lime with boiling 
water, cover during the process to keep 
in steam. Strain the liquid through a fine 
sieve or strainer and add to it a peck of 
salt, previously dissolved in warm water, 
three pounds of ground rice boiled to a 
thin paste and stirred in while hot, half a 
pound of Spanish whiting and one pound 
of clear glue, previously dissolved by soak¬ 
ing in cold water, and then hanging over 
a slow fire in a small pot hung in a larger 
one filled with water. Add five gallons of 
hot water to the mixture, stir well and let 
it stand a few days, covered from dirt. 
To be applied hot. 
Last of all, a concrete wall may be 
painted any hue desired. Whether painted, 
whitewashed or varnished, if the surface 
coat has been properly prepared with fine 
sand and the workmen use their floats 
carefully, the face of a concrete interior 
wall may be made to resemble closely a 
wall of rough, sand-finished plaster. The 
expanded metal lath or mesh, which 
serves as a core or base for the concrete, 
is usually fastened to metal bars in place 
of studs or furring. Concrete walls of 
this type possess the further merit of con¬ 
tributing to fire prevention. 
The plastered wall, more than any of 
the several sorts of walls previously men¬ 
tioned, offers opportunities for varied 
treatments without entering into altera¬ 
tions of a radical nature. It may be pa¬ 
pered, painted, hung with textiles, or given 
a rough sand finish, the last necessarily 
applied when the plastering is first being 
done. The plastered wall by itself, plain 
and unadorned, cannot be considered a 
thing of beauty, when the only points to 
relieve its flatness are the cornice — which 
is not always present — and the baseboard, 
a pitifully dwindled and degraded survival 
of dignified wainscot. A plastered wall 
always needs something to temper its star¬ 
ing bareness, even when it is wainscoted 
for part of its height. The only excep¬ 
tion to be made is in the case of a sand- 
finished plaster wall, which presents a 
surface and texture sufficiently interesting 
and suitable as a background to be let 
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