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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1949-11-16, Page 6We Clave lr Mears That few Loo!: A careful survey of old old, worn, unattractive floors led us to the • only possible conclusion: They bad to be redone. After seeing several decorators and getting their esti- mates, we made another decision: We would do it ourselves, writes Marry M. Smith, in The Iowa Homestead. So, if your floors need refinishing and your budget is already etretehed, do^ as we did. Refinish them yourself. By bearing a few facts 3n mind, anyone can do the work professionally. First, consider the type of wood. le it closed grain or open grain? Maple and pine are closed grain . woo*; oak ie open grained. Each type requires a different method. Assusning the floor is an old oak one. Ti the boards are rough and worn, they must be sanded. This is done with a sanding machine. After sanding, apply wood filler in natural color or tinted to testa You can buy it ready prepared or mix it at home. If bought ready mixed, follow directions on can. Apply filler with a paint brush, a sponge, or an old soft rag. But don't spread on it larger space than cm be worked in 10 or 15 minutes, as the filler sets quickly when ex- posed to air. After applying the filler, scatter etewdust on it and eet.to work. Rub hard with the palms of the hands, always rubbing *arose the grain, until most of Bee filler is rubbed off. Then sweep up aawdust and clean away remaining specks by wiping with burlap. Continue over entire floor. As noon as the filler has been applied, dispose of rags, sawdust and any other items saturated with filler, to avoid combustion. Let filler dry for 24 hours. Then sweep the floor carefully four or Sive tunes. Next, wipe it carefully but quickly with painter's naphtha, Then cove( with a coat of good grade clear varnish, thinned 10 per sent. with turpentine. Let dew 24 hour*. Sand with No. 0 flint sandpaper. Sweep four or five times, then wipe 'with painter's naphtha. Apply an- other coat of varnish, just as it eaves tram the can. Let it dry 24 hours. Wax. If the old floor is of close -grain wood, eliminate the filler process. Sand with sanding machine, clean and proceed with the varnishing, using the 10 per cent. reduced var- nish for the first coat. Allow to dry 24 hours. Sand with No. 0 flint paper. Apply the second coat just as it comes from the can. Allow to dry 24 hours. Wax. If the wood of an old floor is in good condition, but the varnish is worn and spotty, the old varnish probably will have to be removed. Get a good varnish reprover, apply with an old paint brush, and then scrape with a putty knife. After the floor has dried for 24 hours, sand with No. 1 flint sand- paper. Sweep four or five times; wipe up with painter's naphtha. If of. closed grain wood, sand, clean and proceed with varnishing. If of open grain wood, it is always necessary to apply paste wood filler 'to get a smooth finish. Then apply the varnish. If the varnish is only slightly worn, wash the floor with a wash- ing compound used especially to wash floors to remove wax. It is necessary to remove every 'bit of wax, or the varnish will dry 'very slowly and will have a tend- ency to chip, leaving unsightly nears. So (lean thoroughly. When pbsolu'tely dry, sand with No. 34 !lint sandpaper. Sweep well. Then wipe quickly but thoroughly with painter's naphtha. Next apply varnish. One eoat, just as it comes from the can, will probably be sufficient unless the old varnish is too badly worn, If a second coat is needed, thin the fast coat with turpentine, allow to 'Ary 24 hours, and sand with No, 0 flint sandpaper; then apply second coat as it comes from can, Rom Diplomat — Bob — "You *ink Henry belongs in the diplo- matic service?" Rob — Well, just consider—he persuaded his wife she she would look too fat in a fur coat." Not A Drop To Drink—Dr. George Klotzbaugh holds a "dry raindrop" 3n ,the ;path of a radar beam at the Westinghouse Laboratories..<;The make-believe drops, made from a plastic wfixture, have the identical electrical behavior of real rain. ing the drops and sensitive measuring instruments, scien- tists can determine the effect of rain, sleet and snow on ultra - shortwave radar, the kind used by military planes. FORT Sloth, ignorance or some other of the seven deadly vices caused us, in a recent column, to set down the number of tie games played so far in the National Hockey League as just double the quantity of these no -decision affairs that had actually taken place. In other words, we added up the number appearing in the league standings, and then neg- lected to divide by two. * * * We hasten to express our humble apologies for this contretemps— (if we know what we mean) — with the hope that no great harm has been done to QUOTE the world's fastest sport UNQUOTE. * * * But oureregret for the boner by no means weakens our long -held belief that games ,were meant to be played to a decision, and that when no efforts are made to break a dead- look—well, it may be good box- office, but it certainly isn't sport. Also, we still contend that if the well-paid gladiators understood that, in ease of a deadlock, they would have to play to a sudden -death fin- ish or else that neither team would get a point in the standing, the pub- lic would see quite a different brand of hockey, especially during the final ten minutes or so of a great many games. * Those who have watched the de- velopment and increasing popularity of basketball, ever since its com- paratively recent invention by a Canadian, of recent years have been viewing with alarm the growing tendency of coaches to search the highways and byways for players showing at least a trace of giraffe in their ancestry. * * * According to the Good Book "the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong"; but, as an old-time gambler once said, you'll need a very healthy bankroll to bet the other way. And in no other sport not evgn football, has the good big man" such an over- whelming advantage over his just as good but smaller adversary, * * * These profound remarks are occasioned by the news that there Poodles In A Puddle—Gut in Hollywood, JIjor(lis and David Niven treat their poodles, Baba and Sura, to a boat rill(' in the Niven pool. With such goings on, and a master and mistress like that, a dog's life isn't what it used to be. has at last appeared on the basket- ball scene a player who must be just about a coach's dream. * * * He is a gentleman of color, Ray Harris by name, and he pleasures a niere seven feet seven inches id height. (The dispatch didn't say if that's in his stocking feet or bare- foot, but possibly that doesn't mat- ter." If you'll take the trouble— and a yardstick—to measure seven feet seven inches on the nearest telephone post, you'll have a better idea of just what a picture Mr. Harris must make when he looms up on a basketball court, ■ * * Harris, who is presently perform- ing with a Negro professional team, can sink the apple for a couple of points merely by reaching up as he runs bast the basket, not even hav- ing to go to the bother of jumping. But great as his scoring ability must be, it is on the defense that he is most impressive. * * * We have often wondered how it would be in hockey if a goal tender ever appeared so broad and hefty that he completely filled the space between the posts, making it im- possible to jani the puck past hm. (And the way some of the goalies pile on the padding and tack these days, that is by no means the pipe dream it might have been a few years ago.) Shoemaker Wanted — Photo- graphs taken at the opening of Philadelphia's Community Chest drive — withloud- speaker "'message" by'William t Penn, atop City Hall — Re- vealed that the founder of the Commonwealth has aoorly shod right font (see inset. The toe telt removed d two years ago to atrengtllrll the stattt and will be replaced. Shed New Light On The Bible The ancient Hebrew -trolly—found by accident, in a cave in Trana- jordan—possibly date, in the opin- ion of experts, from the second century before Christ. Professor Plenderleith, keeper of the research laboratory of the British Museum, describes the work he is doing on tome of the fragments in ''London Calling," This would seem to be the most outstanding discovery of Biblical manuscripts ever made. The whole of the Book of Isaiah — a scroll seven yards Jong; a considerable fragment of another Isaiah; a com- mentary on 1'labbakuk; a selection at the Psalms; several sections of the Apocrypha, as well as some other documents of the greatest historical interest — all of these were found stored in sealed jars in a cave in the hills near Jericho. Archaeologists have now exam- ined the jars and the scrolls, and agree that the manuscripts are gen- uine, possibly dating back to the second century before Christ, It is an incredible piece of good for- tune that, after 2,000 years, .the finest of the scrolls are in such good condition that all have been un- rolled without mishap. This, 1 understand, is in no shall measure due to the protection of the jars, Now why is this find so very im- portant? As we know, the Bible has been handed down to us from texts copied and recopied many times. Two of the principal sources are the Hebrew text of the ninth century A.D., called the Massoretic text, and the Greek Septuagint, translated from the Hebrew about the third century 13.C, The newly discovered documents are actually 1,000 years earlier than the Mas- soretic text, and must 'be almost contemporary with the Hebrew writings from which the Greek Septuagint was derived. Scho tarsr ae translating and comparing texts, and already we are told that there is very little change to record; the Bible has been tran- scribed for us down through the ages with astonishing accuracy—a tribute to the strictness and fidelity of generations of devoted scribes. Now, in a find of this kind, it will be understood that every acrap is of the utmost value; not a word must be lost. After the main scrolls had been removed, the cave was visited and searched by Mr. Lanke- ater Harding, the curator of an- tiques of Transjorden. He gleaned every fragment left in the cave, from the floor and from the jars, and it is these gleanings that he brought to me at the British Mu- seum for examination and treat- ment. The manuscripts, I find, are com- posed of parchment, that is, animal skin prepared for writing—in this case, probably goat skin. The ink is a carbon ink, the most perma- nent kind of ink, traditionally made from a mixture of soot and gum. The Hebrew writing is black and as legible today as it would have been 2,000 years ago; but the fragments from the floor of the cave, not protected by the jars, are in a sorry condition. Some of the pieces are no bigger a Well, that is practically the situa- tion rival basketball teams are con- fronted with when Ray Harris is on the defence. He simply stands by the basket and taps away oppo- nents' shots as they come, making "lay-ups" impossible. Now they're saying that if Harris gets into the basketball "tig time" he may force a revision in the rules, * * * However, what with winter com- ing on, we can -think of a lot of other things better worth worrying about, such as the price of coal, clothes, alcohol—for the ear ra- diator, naturally — shoes et teeters. Basketball is just one of several major sports in which coaches and 'tanagers have come to think that their own personal Ireeords and reputations are of far more im- portance than pleasing the custom - are, One of these days a movement will start aimed at giving games back to those who play them. Mental Cruelty — Divorce judge —"Now, just why do you wish * divorce, Mra. Whanglook?" Mira. 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Top Notch Chick Sales Guelph. tlntn'lo. than a thumb nail, and in wads of 10 or 12 layers, sticking together. ft is my job to separate these lay- ers. This may sound easy, but after so long in the and climate of Palestine, the pieces are dry and brittle, so much so that they can- not stand the most delicate manipu- lation without fracture. We tocol' that in its natural con- dition, parcluneut is soft and pli- able because it contains moisture, but when old and dry it becomes brittle. If we can restore moisture to brittle parchment it again be- comes pliable. The obvious way to do this might seem to be to soak the parchment with water, but this would convert it into glue; parch- ment, when wetted, however lightly, gelatinises on the surface. There is great danger in using too much water. However, in the laboratory we have experience of old parch- ment and a simple piece of appar- atus for a job of this kind. The parchment is placed on a support, in a glass vessel. In the base of the vessel is a glycerine - water mixture, which has the effect of keeping the air in the closed vessel at a predetermined humidity. In time, the parchment absorbs the moisture from the humid air, and after two hours, the specimens have again become pliable, without change in appearance. It is now possible to ease the leaves apart, thus exposing fresh layers of writ- ing as the work proceeds. However, there was a serious complication. At one edge of some of the wads, holding the leaves together, was a black substance like pitch. It was not pitch, but was actually a localized decorn'position of the tissue to parchment glue— decomposition beyond recovery. This glue absorbed more than its share of moisture in the humidifier and became like black treacle, and threatened to spread over the small fragments and obliterate the writ- ing. It had to be hardened again, and quickly. What was I to do? I put a trial piece into a refrigerator, and found that this worked. Soon, the black aubstance solidified and lost its stickiness;; and it was now possible, with the aid of a scalpel, to slip it sway from the text, and so sepa- rate the leaves entirely, so that they could be mounted between glasses in preparation for study. It was going to take time and patience to read the many fragments in my possession, but when the work is completed, there will be the satisfaction of knowing that all of the remaining script has been saved, .1401 0 Ill SINESS u)'POt'rU AN 0101,1051 to every luvenlUr--List of 01,n•n- ttone and full information sent free. The Itanlsny t''0., Iieglotol'od Patent A13.17101, 510 Danis Street, Ottawa, 1)0101N4 AND ULI*ANIMl DA VIC 101 °twining 'Iu'eU, 110155 of clean 1001 W,'lix In ie rot Iutarmnnna we ars glad to anen'ef you, quest lona Deportment H. Porlier a nye warts 'mimeo tel Sonar Street _Toronto onto rlo PO It SALE --- STOOK clearing sale of mu0lca) Instruments. Writs for Moo Price list. 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