The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-05-07
G6c Yowle Girtle.
Whitewashes.


i,- Halls journal Of Health contains
the following valuable article: .s'
Common lime quickly and perfectly
absorbs carbonic and other disagreeable
and unhealthful gases and odors and
for this purpose, in times of plaques,
,epidemics, and wasting diseases, it is
scattered plentifully in cellars, privies,
stables, and cutters of the streets. 1t
not only purifes the air and promotes
physical health, but as a whitewash en-
q livens and beauties wherever it is np-
piled. AS it is easily washed off by the
rain, if not properly prepared as wash,
it has to be. so frequently rc-applied
o that it is considered troublesome by
) many hence the rich use paint, and
the poor use nothing to protect their
dwellings, fences, &C., from the ravages
of the weather; yet the difference be
tween wcll-whitewashed farm and one
where no lime is used would amount to
large percentage in case Of sale.
For the physical and moral benefits
which may arise from the abundant use
of lime as q whitewash, several modes
of preparing it, SO as to make it more
durable, whether applied indoors or
out, are here given, with the suggestion
that the same amount of money neces,
sary to keep mans premises well
whitewashed cannot be expended to as
great moral and healthful advantage
in any other way.
1. One ounce of white vitriol (sul-
phate of zine) and three ounces of com.
mon salt to every four pounds Of good
fresh lime, that'is, lime which has not
fallen into dry powder from exposure
TO the atmosphere, with water enough
to make it sufficiently thin to be ap
piled with brush, yields adurable out
4 door whitowash.
2. Take clean water-tight barrel
2 or other wooden cask, and put into i
half bushel of lime in its rock state
pour enough boiling water on it to GOV
er it five inches deep, and stir it brisk
ly until it is dissolved or thoroughly
''slacked "then putin more water and
add two pounds of sulphate of zine
that is, white vitriol--and one pound
= Of common salt these harden the wasl
aud prevent cracking this may be col
ored according to tastcby adding three
pounds of yellow ocher for cream col
or; four pounds Of umber for fawr
color, with pound each of Indian ret
and lamp,blaok. 8&
8. Mix up half pail of lime an,
water ready for whitewashing max,
n starch of halfa pint Of -four and pou
it, while hot, into the lime water Will
it is hot. This does not rub off easily
A. A good indoor whitowash for
house Of six or eight rooms is mad
thus: tako three pounds of Paris whit
and one pound of white glue dissolv
the glue in hot water, aud make thicl
wash with the Paris white and hot wa
ter, then add the dissolved glue an,
sufficient water to make it of the prope
consistenco for applying with a brush
If any is left over, it hardens by tn
morning ; but il may bO dissolved will
hot water; still it is best to make onl
enough to be used each day spread
on while it is warm.
1t is said to add to hevplue and last
ingness of any lime-wash if the vesse
in which it is Stacking is kept oovere
with cloth this not only confines tn
heat, but keeps the very finest of th
PARTICLES Of lime from being carried o.
by steam wind OF otherwise. When
is taken into account how much build