Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1917 — Cheap Substitute for Linoleum. [ARTICLE]

Cheap Substitute for Linoleum.

An inexpensive and sanitary-suit-stitute for linoleum can easily be made by pasting together three sheets of brown paper used for wrapping up goods. After thoroughly cleaning the floor a sheet of the paper should be pasted down and allowed to dry. Then a second sheet is laid down and allowed to dry before laying a third sheet. If a pattern floor covering is desired, ordinary wallpaper serves the .purpose admirably. It is pasted to the top sheet of brown paper already laid. The whole, being thoroughly dry, a coat of sizing is applied and left to set, after-which a coat of good var-~ nish completes the pfoceSST' This floor covering has all the advantages of real linoleum and may be washed and polished in the usual way.