Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-08

PAPERED WALLs.-I read with much
interest Fannie B. Wards Hints on
House Decoration" and like Oliver Twist
want some more. But when she advises
one to buy few rolls of dark paper and
put it on right over the DID," feel that
must object. 1t may be stylish" and
may save trouble, but it is not clearly OIL
healthful, and those grease spots that you
want to cover up will be very apt to strike
right through the new paper. Better
remove the old paper. Draw line JUS
where you want the new paper to meet
the old, then follow the line with SHARP
knife, just cutting through the paper; we
the paper below the line with clotl
partly wrung out of quite warm water
and in few minutes the paper will come
off easily. know whereof speak Tor
have tried it.
One way to prepare walls that hav,
often been whitewashed, for papering, il
to take an old, well-worn broom ant
scratch off all the whitewash possible
then wash the walls in vinegar. We triec
it, and the paper stuck closer than ;
brother.
And oh, don't, if you have picture t.
hang, cover your walls with paper that i
Chinese or Japanese. Such papers ina,
be "rich-looking," quite the stye,' ant
all that, but the effect is simply hideous
We took fashionable streak, and covered
the walls of one room with the erich
foreign-looking paper" as the rascal whC
sold it to us called it and that room look
AS though some one had thrown mis-
celancous collection of trees. grasses
butterflies, long legged birds, and tea
chest figures against the walls and lei
them remain just where they happened t.
hit. If you must have paper, take my
advice and get plain, tinted paper, ant
you will find that hung against such Z;
background your pictures. brackets, and
the thousand and one fancy tiXn's' thai
the soul of woman delights in. will look d
vast deal better than when mixed up with
n lot of trees, bugs, birds and hieroglyhics
the like of which no mortal man or wo-
man ever saw before.
And let me tell you that nearly all these
bright papers are poisonous.
was for months the victim of horrible
headaches, caused by sleeping in room
that was papered with pretty bright
colorcd paper that had green vine
running all over it. After the matter was
investigated, we took a piece of that
paper to an analytical chemist and he
found arsenic enough in piece one foot
square to kill man if taken internally.
Dear me! l didn't mean to write SC
much about papered walls, so I will jus,
drop that subject and say something about
sKELEToNIZING LEAVES.
We are asked for the process. The fol
lowing has been successfully used. JULY
and August are the months most favorable
for the process. MS the woody fiber is firm
est when the leaves are perfect,
mature:
Dissolve four ounces of salsoda-ol
washing soda, as it is called-in one quar-
of boiling water. Add two ounces O
quick lime, Stacked; boil fifteen minutes
Allow to cool. Pour off the clear liauit
into suitable stone or stone china vesse
and heat to the boiling point, placing il
the leaves carefully. Boil about one hour
or until the cellular tissue will rub of
readily between the thumb and finger
after placing the leaves in cold water.
To bleach the skeletons. put them in .
solution of one quart of water, one larg
tablespoonful of chloride of lime, and
teaspoonful of vinegar, for fifteen to TWEEN
ty minutes, drying between sheets'of blot
ting paper under r gentle pressure.-Fan
M Field, IN Ohio FARMER.
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