Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1849-03-23
The Utility Of PapeTIng the Walls Of Dwell
ling Houses.

To make home happy, make your dwellings
attractive, cheerful comfortable. Many OF the
houses of our ciIizens, both in town aud coun.
try. while they have pretty fair "outwnrd ap.
pearlnce,' are yet very deficient Of taste and
ngreeabIene7s in their internal arrangements
However, the Iaslo Of Ihe people of this portion
Of the country, for some yonrs past, has been
improving. and more attention is being paid to-
ward making their homes like what they ought
to be-peaianl to stay at. The following very
useful and practical communication, relative. TO
this matter will be reud with interest, and We
bopr, profr-Gwasey Times.
Ma. EDITOR: One of my neighbors stated
the other day, he would get his brick house pa.
pered, but the walls swealed so ho was afraid it
would spoil the paper.
As this thing Of walls sweating is not proper
" understood, by many, il may not be uninter.
esling 10 them, 10 give II word Of explanation.
The idea thai tho water, which stands in drops
on the surface Of the wall, oozes out Of it, as
the sweat does out OF mans body, Is incorrect
and unphlIOsoph phlcal.
For illustration, you may take pitcher of
cold water, aud place il on tablo in hot sum
mer's day, and you will soon see large drops
collecting on the outside. Now this is owing
not to the water passing out of the pores of the
vessel, but IN tho cold mass condensing the warm
aqueous particles which pass around it. 1t is on
this principle Of condensing, that rain is formed
in the upper and colder regions OF the aImos.
phere. Brick aud stone walls being cold ma
tcrials. in like manner often condense the watery
particles of air, which come in contact with
sit.tr guri.,a farm, drnna hlFa r,in llut
these drops come not from the wall, but the ut.
mosphere around the wall,
This sweating is often increased by the i'm.
prudence Of housekeepers, who, after long cold
spell, when tho walls are chilled with frost, aud
there comes a sudden change to mild weather,
hoist the windows and throw open the doors, let.
ting in the warm mir, which Immediately con.
denceses on The walls, until il olieu runs down
in sneams Under such circumstances the doors
and windows should be kept close, so as TO ex-
clade the warm air until the temperature Of the
walls is so lei down as 10 graduate, near as pos
sible, with the atmosphere without.
Nov, 10 cover your walls with paper will pre-
ventlhis sweating. Because paper being awarn
material, like wood, has not the power Of con
densing the aqueous vapors that float Ogains
It's suriuce. SO that finishing your rooms, il
this way, you avoid a very objectionable feature
in brick houses. And for all the cost who woult
not apply the remedy' Good glazed paper caI
be had 10 GAINESVILLE at from 25 10 81 cents pc
bolt. And from 80 so to So so enough to fnisI
tolerable sized room. This is much cheape
than a third cont Of calcined Plaster Pdri
and lime, which is the usual finish TO goo
houses. when paper is not designed to be used.
Awhile wash brush should never be put upo
a decent house. 1t is Golhic beyond descrp
lion. Alter few coats the wash will scale u
aud make the wall look as shaggy as a New
Gaundland dog. Paper your rooms. as the cos
s nov comparatively no'hing.-hnish you
ceiling with smoohe coat Of plaster, and pair
il: YOU will tbtn. gel surrounded with nea