Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1880 — Pictures. [ARTICLE]

Pictures.

Castile soap and water can be used on oil paintings without danger, care being taken, of course, not to wet the back, or let water through cracks. For ordinary dusting of pictures a silk handkerchief should be used. Heavy gilt frames are appropriate for oil paintings. An engraving would be made to appear cold by a bright or heavy gilt frame, though sometimes a plain, unburnished one looks well. Of course a margin of white paper is needed between the printed surface and the frame, so as not to make the contrast or brilliancy too violent. For hanging, use copper or silver wire. Moths . eat out the inside of the cord. Water in which onions have been boiled, rubbed lightly over the frames, will keep insects away from them The longest recorded drought in America is said to have occurred in 1762. No rain fell from the Ist of May to the Ist of September—a period of 123 days.