The Evening critic., 1882-04-13
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
vTo ALL CONSUMERS OF PAINTS.
TO THE HOUSE OWNER,

The following plain and pertinent truths are re-
spcctfully presented.
"Be ready always to give an answer to every man
that nsketh you n reason.
In accordance with, and in obedience to, the
above Injunction, we propose TO set before the
houso oicnor and the consumer or paint good and
valid reasons, with argument in support thereof,
why the Rcddy.mdde Paints manufactured by
John w. Masury & Son should in exterior house
painting be preferred before any and all other
material offered or presented for such purpose
First, we hold up I'm terms as brief and concise
as possible the facts in the case, and afterward
give the reasons for the hope that Is within u.s."
We assert. without fear of reasonable contra.
diction, that the Ready-made Colors made and
sold by are, all things considered the most eco
nomicdi meaning thereby that a house owner
can, by the use of our paints in painting his
house. realize a better result for given sum of
money than by any other mode of procedure:
and we submit that, all other things being equal,
,raat Is most ,,,, .conomicot g 6es, We claim too;
others ever offered for public favor and we can, If
wrtten testimonials of i've thousand respoSsibie lie
and respectable men. Our colors fade less than do
tney are ni @ a IN ud ahe mature
prime importance. in. fading they fade so ni-
not fading at all, and we believe them to be, for
all surfaces exposed to external weather forces.
inherently the maximum of ali good properties
and qualities and the minimum of all undesirable
and assertions here presented may seem to one
not acquainted with the merits of our products
exaggerated and not strictly in accordance with
sober truth; but when we shall have presented
our reasons why such things may be we have no
fGness or exaggeration We are older in this
line line Of business than any other establishment in
paints herein particularly recommended have
been muse for more than halfthe lifetime ofa gen
urban and rural domicies present themselves as
attesting monuments of the truth of our claims
houses to lie number r. Of thdasands, have beeS
painted again and again in all these years with
highly commended where they have been most
not asking the house owner to. try doubtful ex-
periments for our profit Can the new claimants
manufacturing and preparing colors for the ready
use ofihe painter the house Of John W. Masury, &
largest in the world. The senior partner and
present sole propIie,t,Cr m has been continuously
business for almost. half a century, and, in view
Of these facts it II is reasonable @ to suppose that
possesses knowledge of. If the reader have any
OF line 5e aps All S OF our
throughout the country. We do not propose to
maker d ans BUT we DC
and with reason, that in using our paints good
these coors before the public we gladly avail our,
selves of all reputable ways and means of pub
fishing and advertising them but we cannot come
called manufacturers of paint, who cover every
dead wall and outbuilding and ran fence through
out the rural districts with their cheap board
signs, in company with quack medicine venders,
mo cure, no pay private medical consultation
and liver pads. These quacks in the paint trade
having no recognition by the respectable mem
than doubtful practices to palm off upon the pub
lie their worse than worthless trash. In their
own phrase, II Is cheap! and they might add the
Euall1N1Dg adjective ndSfU with good deal OF
pertinence. The purchaser of these paints should
Keep in mind the fact that somebody has to pay
for the cord of sign-boards which is sent along
| with every twenty-dollar order for these fraud
The remarks foregoing, commendatory of our
own colors, refer particularly to those of our
paints which are presented to the public in the
form of oolored white lead, called Railroad
Paints; In paste form, so to speak, not thnned
with oil to proper consistency for application
requiring to be thinned with linseed oil or tur-
pentine, ss the case may be. Now, we propose TO
set forth the qualities and properties and merits
of our Liquid Colors ready thinned, which are
offered and recommended for the same purposes
as are the unthinned paints but in more con
venient form, These colors have not undergone
the test OF time to the same degree have the
others, but they have been in common use for
some years, and in all where the directions
have been observed the result has been entirely
satisfactory. We say from our own experience
seen any paint, after twelve months of exposure
| to the sun and the storms, present so fresh an
wear. We commend these remarks in all seri
ousHess to the house owner about to paint, and
ask Iial Of our prodnets;;, e,o>r
For sale by
JAMES II. McGILL,
Sole agent for the District of Columbia,
| ap13 81 No. 1921 New York avenue