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Show Good Colors for Houses. It Is not generally known not even among painters why certain tints and colors wear much letter than others on Iioufcs, nnd the knowledge of just what tints are best to um is, therefore, rather na'r-One na'r-One writer on pnlnts, In n recent book, sajs that experiments seem to Miow that those colors which resist or turn back the brut rays of the sun, will protect a lmuc better than thopc which allow there lavs to pnn through the film. Thus red is n good color because it Mum Ihiek, or rellctts the led rays, and the red rays are the hot rn.vs. In peneral, theufme. the warm tone are good und the cold tones nre poor, so far as wo.ir i com-crm-d, In choosing the color of pnlnt for jour house, fclect reds, brrmns, grnvs and olive, which, considering the various tones tlnse tints ,ttill produce, will give n wide range from Inlilch to choose. Ave id the linrsh tints, mcli as cold vellows (like lemonl, cold errens (like gnss gicen, etc.), nnd the bines. It must lc umlerMnod that no virtue , lis (luinied for tints in themselves, ine spcotiye of the nntcri.its ued in the Ipiint. Any color will fide, nnd the paint will seale 'olT if ndulterated white lend or coined paint is u-rd, but if one 1-'arrfnl 1-'arrfnl to ne the lx-st while lead some ncllkunnii hrnml of n lelmble maiuifni lurer slid genuine linseed oil, the war m ints mentioned nlwne will outwear the 4uinc material tinted with the void lolot. |