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Show ENAMELING THE 'BATHTUB." An Ingenious and Simple Method of Making Mak-ing an Old Zinc Tub Dainty. The bathtub from which age and constant con-stant use have worn away the brightness bright-ness is the despair of the model housewife, house-wife, who wishes to have everything about her home show traces of care on the part of herself and her domestics. How distressed she is when, after several sev-eral ineffectual attempts to burnish up the metal lining, the dull, worn look remains, re-mains, and the unwelcome truth bursts "upon her that its "polishing days" aro . ' over and there must in the future hover -about the tub the air of dinginess and neglect! To avoid this sort of trouble an ingenious in-genious idea is on the wing, which will , as time advances gain in favor. Who does not admire the porcelain tubs in which fortune's pampered proteges take their daily dip? To those but lightly en-dowed en-dowed with worldly goods the posses-t posses-t f ion of one of these luxurious fancies looks to be an utter impossibility. But there is a means by which the mother and her brood may secure a tub, which, if it is not quite up to the mark in point of quality, is certainly as daintily attractive at-tractive in appearance as that of porcelain. porce-lain. This is the enameled bathtub. WheD the zinc or tin lining grows shabby, give it a coat of white paint. After this has dried apply several thicknesses of white enamel, waiting for each application to dry before adding the next. In this way a thick enamel coating is laid upon the metal, giving it the appearance when completed of porcelain. The enameled lined tub is not only very much daintier in appearance, but can be kept in order more easily than zinc or tin, a damp cloth wiped across the surface being all that is needed to retain the purity of coloring. As company for a tub furnished up in the foregoing manner treat in the same way the woodwork of the bathroom. Some faint hued enamel, pale blue, old pink, violet, gray, cream or lemon, laid upon the woodwork completes the decorative deco-rative notion, while aesthetic conceptions in pumpkin yellow, sage green or russet brown oontrast admirably with the enowy lining of the tub. Golden Days. |
