Stove Colors

In view of the fact, says an AustriaHungarian jourual, that black iron stoves do not in all cases suit a room which is painted in light colurs, and of the attempts made unsuccessfully to use upou them a water glass paint, Herr Kratzer, a Leipsic chemist, has been experimenting in this direction with very satisfactory resnlts. The colors, he finds, may be blue white, borium sulphate, zinc white, borinm chromate, yellow ocher, uranium oxide, green chromium oxide, cobalt green, green ultramarino, ultramarine blue, cadmium oxide for yellow brown, English red or caput mortuum for brown, brown oxide of manganese, burned terra di siena, red iron colors, chrome red. These are to be mixed with warm soft water, distilled or rain, and diluted 33 degrees or sulphur free water glass. Thus one part of water glass may be mixed with two of warm soft water, and one part of bronzepowder be worked up with 50, by weight, of the diluted water glass. It may be necessary to give the color a thorough preliminary wetting with very soft water, particnlarly if the color be an earthy one, and the better this is done the better will the color mix with the water glass, but no more color should be mixed than can be nsed within two to four honrs. The iron should be perfectly free from grease and rust, and should be treated with a scratch brush - then three coats, at 12 hour intervals.