Enameling The Bathtub

The bathtub froin which age and constant use have worn away the brightness is the despair of the model housewife, 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 ineffectual attempts to burnish up the metal lining, the dull, worn look remains, and the unwelcome truth bursts upon her that its "polishing days" are 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 idea is on the wing, which will as time ad vances gain in favor. Who does not admire the porcelain tubs in which fortune's pampered proteges take their daily dip? To those but lightly endowed with worldly goods the possession of on? 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 aa daintily attractive in appearance as that of porcelain. This is the enameled bathtub. When the zinc or tin lininggrows shabby, give it a coat of white paint. After this has dried apply several thicknesses of white enarnel, 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 easiJy than zinc or tin, a damp cloth wiped across the surface being all that is ueeded to retain the purity of coloring. As company for a tub f urnished 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 uotion, while iesthetic conceptions in pumpkin yellow, sage green or russet brown contrast admirably with the