the warmer. Very light hair may be improved by a slight
tint of brown, or yellow and brown, according to the color.
In coloring the drapery, the same care must be used.
No rules can be laid down for all the different colors required,
and the amateur had better obtain the assistance or advice
of some one accustomed to the use of colors. A little
white with a dash of blue or a little silver, will improve
white linen, lace, etc. The jewelry may be touched with gold
or silver from the shells, moistened with distilled water,
and laid on with a fine-pointed sable-hair brush.

"Brilliants may be represented by picking the plate with the point
of a pin or knife."



MISCELLANEOUS.

CHAPTER II.


Coloring Back Grounds--Transparent ditto--Gilding Dissolvent
Solution for removing Specks--Solarized Impression--To Purify Water--
Cleaning Mercury--Adhesive Paper--Black Stain for Apparatus--
Sealing Wax for Bottles--Rouge--Rotten Stone--Potassa Solution--
Hyposulphite Solution--Substitute for do.--Gilding Solution--
Solution for increasing the Brilliancy of the Daguerreotype--
Bleaching Solution;--Cold Gilding--Neutralizing Agents--
Buff Dryer--Keeping Buffs in order--Cleaning Buckskins--
Reflector for taking Views.