4. This Week's Stories and Requests for Help

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Jacque E. From VA sent us a request for a vintage "glue" recipe for a 1930s
scrapbook.  We had *so* many responses, and they all suggested a mix of flour
and water, or the use of Mucilage.  Thanks to "gwade", Pamela P, Gerald B, H
Marie B, Darlene F, Lyle M, and Sandy S for the flour and water suggestions.

Here are a few comments:

Possible answer to Jacque about scrapbook glue...........

My mom used a lot of Mucilage glue during that time period....She was a school
teacher.  We also made fake caterpilliar cocoons by putting the glue on 2
fingers and opening and closing till fiber formed And and added it to the end
of a pencil or dowel rod .  It was easy to apply and was non toxic too.... 
Sue M.
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Two guesses here: the first would be flour and water paste, similar to
wallpaper paste, except made with regular baking or cooking flour. It was very
hard to get smooth, so my second guess is egg white.  In the late 1940s and
1950s my mom would save the raw eggshells from breakfast and swab out, with
her finger, the little bit of egg white still left in the shell.  This would
then be used to glue envelopes shut, or I would use if I needed to paste
something together.  The egg white pasted very smoothly and very permanently,
and paper seemed not to crumple up on top of it (I assume because there was
very little moisture content to the egg white).  Ronald H.
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