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Show MENDING OF CHINA. Time and Patience Necessary, As Well As Good Glue and Cement. (Boston Post.) Time and patience are both quite necessary factors in the successful mending of broken china, crockery or glass. Any such article that has sustained sus-tained a sort of compound fracture must be mended one piece at a time. For this reason, those who make such repairing a matter of business require a long time in the work, letting one piece harden in place before another is added. For mending broken crockery there is nothing better than white lead. It is one of the few cements that resist re-sist both water and heat. Smear in thinly on the edges of the article, press them together and set it aside to dry. A waterproof glue for repairing marble mar-ble or porcelain may be made by mixing mix-ing plain white glue and milk. Into two ouarts of skimmed millr r,,f v,.n a pound of the best white glue. Put the basin containing this into another basin of hot water. Cook until the milk has evaporated to such an extent ex-tent that the mixture Is like ordinary glue or even thicker. When dry, this cement is one of the hardest, with the clearness of ivory. Unslaked lime mixed with the white of an egg is a simple and a good cement. ce-ment. It dries very quickly, even having hav-ing a tendency to dry berore the broken brok-en edges of the article can be brought together. If quickfy mixed and applied, ap-plied, the mended dish will be strong and ready for use within a few hours. Many other cements need to be left to their work for days and weeks before be-fore the dish can be used. A very good cheap cement that may be used in many ways in patching crockery ware and mending leaks may be made from plaster of Paris. Mix this with the white of an egg to a cream and smear It on the article. As in all cements, ce-ments, this must be left to dry thoroughly thor-oughly before using. A heat and moisture mois-ture proof cement is a handy thing .to have. Here is one that is warranted to fill cracks in kettles, close seams in pans, and mend all sorts of things, remaining remain-ing perfectly indifferent to subsequent trials by heat or water. Get some powdered litharge and mix with glycerine gly-cerine till thick and soft as putty. After these two elements have thoroughly thor-oughly blended, the cement is ready to be applied. |