Observe well the shadows of the pictures you wish to copy ; draw
their shapes as exactly as you can, and cut them out. Paste these
pieces on a sheet of paper, in the same relative positions they occupy in
the landscape ; if the shade be rather light, put on only one thickness of
paper ; if darker, two and three thicknesses may be used ; if the shadow
is very deep and heavy, five or six pieces may be pasted on, one above
another. When held up to the light, shades are produced, differing in
degrees according to the thickness of the paper. These make very
pretty tranparencies for lamps in summer. Lamp shades can be made
in this way, with colored paper placed between two thin white papers,
and so arranged that the shadows will represent grapes, or any fruit or
flower. China lamp shades are prepared in the same way ; that is, por-
tions of the china are made thicker than others ; in the daylight they
look perfectly white, but when the light shines through them the shades
look like a soft landscape in India ink. It is on the same principle that
the beautiful transparencies are made for windows.
310 HOW TO MAKE PERFUMERY.
HOW TO MAKE PERFUMERY.
This is enough for a small trial, which can be managed by any per-
son having the run of a garden : Procure an ordinary glue pot, which
melts the material by the boiling water ; when the flowers are in bloom
obtain half a pound of fine mutton suet✪ How to Make Perfume and strain it through a hair-
sieve ; allow the liquefied fat as it falls from the sieve to drop into cold
water. This operation granulates and washes the blood and membrane
from it ; this must be repeated three or four times ; finally remelt the
fat and cast into a pan to free it from water.
Now put the clarified suet into the macerating pot and place it in
such a position near a fire that it will keep warm enough to be' liquid ;
into the pot throw as many flowers as you can ; let them remain twenty-
four hours, then strain the fat from the spent flowers and add fresh
ones ; repeat this operation for a week. At the last straining it will be
highly perfumed. When cold, chop up, like suet for a pudding ; put in
a wide mouth bottle, cover with spirits as highly rectified as can be
obtained, and let digest for a week or more. The spirit then strained
off will be highly perfumed. In reality it will be the extract of the
flower, a most delightful perfume for the handkerchief.
The same experiment may be repeated with almond oil instead of
fat. The experiment here hinted at may be varied with any flowers
whatever; indeed by having the macerating bath larger than mentioned
above, an excellent millefleur pomade and essence may be produced
from any conservatory.
PICTURES.
MOUNTING THEM.
Make a stretcher; take cheap unbleached muslin and tack on,
stretching tight. Varnish it all over on the back with coach varnish
and let dry for a couple of days. Make a paste of silver gloss starch,
putting into a teacupful of starch about a teaspoonful of white gum
arabic, dissolved in water. Stir until cold ; spread it on the canvas very
thin and on the back of the chromo or picture. Lay the picture on the
canvas and rub with a cloth until it sticks ; then hang up and let dry.
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Observe well the shadows of the pictures you wish to copy ; draw their shapes as exactly as you can, and cut them out. Paste these pieces on a sheet of paper, in the same relative positions they occupy in the landscape ; if the shade be rather light, put on only one thickness of paper ; if darker, two and three thicknesses may be used ; if the shadow is very deep and heavy, five or six pieces may be pasted on, one above another. When held up to the light, shades are produced, differing in degrees according to the thickness of the paper. These make very pretty transparencies for lamps in summer. Lamp shades can be made in this way, with colored paper placed between two thin white papers, and so arranged that the shadows will represent grapes, or any fruit or flower. China lamp shades are prepared in the same way ; that is, portions of the china are made thicker than others ; in the daylight they look perfectly white, but when the light shines through them the shades look like a soft landscape in India ink. It is on the same principle that the beautiful transparencies are made for windows.
310 HOW TO MAKE PERFUMERY.
HOW TO MAKE PERFUMERY.
This is enough for a small trial, which can be managed by any person having the run of a garden : Procure an ordinary glue pot, which melts the material by the boiling water ; when the flowers are in bloom obtain half a pound of fine mutton suet and strain it through a hairsieve ; allow the liquefied fat as it falls from the sieve to drop into cold water. This operation granulates and washes the blood and membrane from it ; this must be repeated three or four times ; finally remelt the fat and cast into a pan to free it from water.
Now put the clarified suet into the macerating pot and place it in such a position near a fire that it will keep warm enough to be' liquid ; into the pot throw as many flowers as you can ; let them remain twentyfour hours, then strain the fat from the spent flowers and add fresh ones ; repeat this operation for a week. At the last straining it will be highly perfumed. When cold, chop up, like suet for a pudding ; put in a wide mouth bottle, cover with spirits as highly rectified as can be obtained, and let digest for a week or more. The spirit then strained off will be highly perfumed. In reality it will be the extract of the flower, a most delightful perfume for the handkerchief.
The same experiment may be repeated with almond oil instead of fat. The experiment here hinted at may be varied with any flowers whatever; indeed by having the macerating bath larger than mentioned above, an excellent millefleur pomade and essence may be produced from any conservatory.
MOUNTING THEM.
Make a stretcher; take cheap unbleached muslin and tack on, stretching tight. Varnish it all over on the back with coach varnish and let dry for a couple of days. Make a paste of silver gloss starch, putting into a teacupful of starch about a teaspoonful of white gum arabic, dissolved in water. Stir until cold ; spread it on the canvas very thin and on the back of the chromo or picture. Lay the picture on the canvas and rub with a cloth until it sticks ; then hang up and let dry.
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