Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-04-02
a CHAPTER ON PAsrEs.



'1hs Best Way TO Mako Them for Dif.
ferent Purposes.
The following are some useful recipe.
for making pastes of various kinds:
Paper to Wood.-Gum arabic, one-half
ounce; powdered gum tragacanth, one
half ounce; water ~ ounces; acetic
sacid, 20 drops. II the paper is good this
caste Will not stain it. Give It one or
two coats gum arabic as a varnish.
Perpetual paste or paste that win
keep several months is made by dissolv.
ing teaspoonful Of alum in quart of
warm water. When cold, stir in flour
to give 1T the consistence of cream. beat
ing out all the Jumps. Then stir in e.
much powdered rosin as will lie on a
dime. Have on the fire teakettle of
polIing water. Pour the boiling water
on the mixture, and stir constantly un-
til 1T assumes the consistence of molas-
'ses. This will occur In few minutes.
Pour out into an earthen vessel to cool.
then cover and put In cool place. When
needed, take portion and dilute with
warm water.
Paste for Scrap Book.-Equal quanti-
ties. say small lump of each. of glue
and alum and dissolved in water. Beat
up with flour until smooth, then add
boiling water and stir well. This will
keep long while in a cool place.
Postage Stamp Paste.-The paste or
smucilage used by our government for
cumming postage stamps is made as
follows: Two parts gum dextrine, one
part acetic acid and five parts water are
added together and put into a water
bath, dissolving the gum, after which
one part alcohol is added. English post
age stamps are gummed with a potato
starch paste.
Ordinary Starch or Flour Paste.-It
is best to prepare paste by trituratine
the starch or -four with cold water until
no Jumps remain, and not too thick
mass is formed, and pouring into this
boiling water very slowly, with rapid
stirring, until the paste begins to form,
as indicated by the increase of trans
parency, and then rapidly adding the
rest OF the water (boiling) necessary for
the paste Boiling the paste is very in
furious, rendering it less adhesive and
liable to peel off. Rye flour gives a
more adhesive paste than starch or
wheat -four, but is too strong or hard
to spread for paper hanging; it is of a
gray color also. The addition of lit
tie alum to the water with which the
paste is prepared renders it more perm
zanent, and the use of boiling lime water
instead of pure soft water adds to the
adhesiveness. An aqueous extract of
~decomposed gluten, however, affords
the best paste with starch. BY incor-
porating with the paste a quantity
~of turpentine equal in weight to
half of the starch employed, and
stirring while the paste is still hot, it
will be rendered more impervious to
moisture, and at the same time more adj
hesive.
A paste, very brilliant and adhesive,
sand said to be superior to gum arabic,
may be made by dissolving caseine
(precipitated from milk by acetic acid,
sand washed with pure water) in sat
-urated solution of borax.
A label gum that only requires moist
~ening with saliva to affix to objects is
made from II parts (by weight) good
glue. previously soaked in cold water
until soft; seven parts gum arabic, and
"a little rock candy, in So parts water,
subjected to a gentle heat, with con-
'tinued stirring until the mass is uni
form.
There are several substances useful
for adding to paste to keep it sweet.
Among these may be found essence of
.wintergreen, hydronaphthol dissolved
in little alcohoD, oil of cloves, oil of
sassafras and carbolic acid. Alum also
helps to keep it besides hardening or
sstiffening it. Oil of pennyroyal added
will keep the flies away. Two grains
of hydronaphothol is sufficient for
each pint of paste. The oil es-
sences may be Objectionable some
times, being liable to grease deli
cate paper; but they give an agreeable
perfume, and keep the paste from sour
ing.
Glutol added to common paste gives
a fine. strong paste that keeps well. and
lis much used by paper hangers in this
manner.-Western Painter.
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