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Show COATING FOR PLASTER CASTS Simple Treatment That the Chicago Art Institute Hss Found to 0 Effective. According to the bulletin of th Art Institute of Chicago, that organisation organi-sation ha been very successful In keeping Its plaster casts presentable by means of simplest treatment. The cast Is first slxed with an application ap-plication of linseed oil and turpentine. This Is put on with a brush, and It Is immaterial whether It Is done when the cast Is new and clean or after It becomes dirty, provided only that It has not been painted or In any way roated with foreign matter. The only object Is to make It Impervious to water, so that subsequent applications will not sink In. Then th cast I washed over with a coat of whiting and water with a little glue (practically a fine whitewash), white-wash), applied quite thin with a brush, and stippled or pounced on, so as not to show brush marks. A little lit-tle yellow ochre la put Into the wash, so that It will not be a blue or dead white. This wash la perfectly soluble, and when It gets dirty It Is easily removed re-moved and a fresh coat appMed. It I obvious that tb cast I do more coated or loaded after the twentieth application than after the first. ' It I surprising In fact bow little the modeling la obscured, even when It Is delicste and detailed. It Is doubtful ir snybody, however, skillful, can tell at a distance of eight or ten feet whether a cast has been whitened o- not. and olght or ten feet I not a great distance at which to view a llfe-slie statue. The larger form are not In the least affected by th prxess cf whitening. John Hobb's Says. The way the political! are coming out for woman's suffrage remln.ts one of the proposals a girl gets when she suddenly Inherits a fortune. If your rooking Is not sufficient to keep an undel'atle Ipisband away from home, oliject to his Joining a club. |
