tro Grease on Paper.—Black Lead.— Permanent I nhs [March I, 
-bad-exhibited the effects of a stream of 
candlic-crease and snuff for more than 
“twelve months : 
Scrape finely’ some pipe-clay, the 
ghantity of which may be easily deter- 
mined on making the experiment; lay 
thereon the sheet. or leaf, and cover the 
spot in like manner with the clay. Co- 
ver the whole with a sheet of paper ; and 
apply, for a tew seconds, a heated iron- 
ing-box, or any substitute adopted by 
Jaundresses. -On using Indian rubber to 
remove the dust taken up by the grease, 
the paper will be: found restored to its 
atiginal degree of whiteness and opacity. 
Bristol Mercur y Office, 
Sept. 14, 1809... Your's, &e. 
i J. Evans. 
P.S. Your correspondent C. in the next » 
ae of the same Number, I presume may be 
fully satisfied upon the subject of Mr. ‘Tho- 
mas. Meore’s assertion respecting General 
Washington, by referring to the Works of 
Peter Porcupine in America. 
ae ~ - 
Fo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
shed 
os or {correspondent E. M. who en- 
quiresafter some wash for preserving 
diawings made with a black-lead pencil, 
may be informed, that a thin ,»wash of 
ssinglass. will fix either black- lead, or bard 
black chaik, so as to prevent their ‘rubbing 
out; or that the same effect may be pro- 
duced by the simple application of skim- 
med-milk, as I have found by frequent 
trials. The best way of using the latter, 
3s, to lay the dr awing flat upon the surface 
ef the milk ; and’ then, taking it up expe- 
ditiously, to hang it by one corner tili it 
drains and dries. The milk must be per- 
fectly free from cream, or it will grease 
the paper. 
Having answered one enquiry, I shall 
now take the liberty of proposing another, - 
of a very opposite nature. E, M. wishes 
to fix black-lead ; and I wish, on the other 
hand, to be informed of some cheaper 
material than black-lead, which may be 
efiaced as completely withIndian rubber, 
and with as little injury to the paper. 
Edo not, however, require it to be ina 
solid form; as any dark-coloured matter. 
in a liguid vehicle would answer equally 
well, or even better, provided they were 
thoroughly incorporated, so as to flow w ith 
a free and equal tint from a pen. 
Faudable pains.have been taken to pro- 
_ duce an indelible ink; but a good and 
cheap delibie ink would, to my conception, 
_be fpund auseful article on many occasions. 
Milford, South Wales, Yow’s, &c. 
September 24, 1809. it. R. 
Much > 
/ 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HROUGH the medium of your Ma- 
gazine, I wish to be favoured, by 
some of your numerous readers, with the 
best method of prepar ing the composition 
which is now used for varnishing coloured: 
drawings and prints, so as to- make them 
resemble paintings in oil. 
At the same time I offer to their notice 
@ recent to make permanent ink for 
marking linen, &c. which, though not so 
convenient as may be wished, is better 
adapted to that purpose than any other,E 
have yet become acquainted with. I 
speak from experience, having marked my 
~ snirts and handkerchiefs with it for some. 
years; and though I claim no merit for 
the discovery (having gleaned it froma _ 
periodical work which Ido not at present 
recollect), I may take to myself credit for 
an improvement in substituting a tincture 
of gails for pure water, which I never saw 
mentioned by any other person. . 
Take of lunar caustic, (now called ar- 
gentum nitratum) one dram; weak solus 
tion (or perhaps more correetly speaking 
tincture) of galls, two drams: the cloth is 
to be first wetted with the following liquid, 
viz, salt of tartar, one ounce; water, one 
ounce and a half; and must be perfectly 
dry before any < antempt is made to write 
upon It. 
The materials aré not expensive, nd 
may be purchased at any druggist’s shop. 
Liverpool, Your's, &c, 
October 9, 1809. W. WEENE. 
To the Editor of the mai Magazine. 
SIR, 
am a great reader of novels, and, as 
J they afford me entertainment in a 
way rather different from the usual, 
beg to communicate my observations. 
The ladies, L observe, are often down- 
right parsons. Ceciliaand Evelina both 
preach and lecture; and, what is worse, 
not with the pretty lisp of Miss Byron. 
As for Clarissa, she is.a school-mistress 3 
or at least, has. an old head upon young 
shoulders. 
I know, is Surr’s Lady Emily ; but nei- 
ther he nor any of the rest give us any | 
hoydens.. No, no, there is no munching — 
of apples, and “ have a bite ;” no bagging 
of beds; no _half- bawling whisper of 
“ Dont tell ma’;” no rattling down stairs, ° 
and pushing : each other forward ; no skip- 
ping into the room, Their girlsin general 
are not tittering things; their heads full 
of nonsense; and Pa’s and Ma’s never 
have the head-ache through their intoler- 
8 lec 
The only natural elegant girl - 
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