Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1906-04-20

Fifty years ago a well-palnied hol re
was a rare sight. today an unpnlu "a
house Is rnrer. II people knew the N&1|
value Of paiut house In need OF n IHI
would be "scnrcer than hens feel
There was some excuse for our { ra
fathers. Many Of them lived In hou fI64
hardly worth preserving; they H
nothing about paint, except that It tf5<
pretty and to get q house painted t43s
O serious and costly Job. The di EH
ence between their case aud ours T.
that when they wanted paint It hal II
be made for them; whereas when "a
need paint we can 60 to the nea{est
good store and buy Il, In any eol0For
quality ready for use. We know or
ought to know by this time. thai 10
let house stand implanted Is cost
costly, while n good coat Of paint, zap.
piled In season, is the best Of INVEST
ments. II we put oil the brief visit OF
the painter we shall in due time have
the carpenter coming to pay as long
visit at our expense. Lumber is con-
stantly getting scarcer. dearer and
poorer. while prepared paints are get
ting plentler, better and less expensive.
II is a short.sighted plan 10 let the val
liable lumber Of our houses so to pieces
for the want OF paint.
For the man that needs paint there
are two forms from which to choose;
one is the old form. still favored by GER
tain unprogressive painters who have
not yet caught up with the tlmes-leHd
and oil; the other is the ready-fsr-use
paint found In every up-to-date store.
The first must be mixed with oil,
driers, turpentine and colors before 1t
Is reaIy for use; the ether need only
be stirred up In the can and it is
ready 10 go on. To buy lead and oil,
colors, etc, and mix them into a paint
BY hand Is, in this twentieth century.
about the same as refusing to ride In
trolley car because ones grandfather
had to walk or ride on horseback
when he wanted to go anywhere.
Prepared paints have been on the mar
ket less than fifty years. but they have
proved on the whole so inexpensive, so
convenient and so good that the con-
sumption to-day Is something over six
~ million gallons year and still grow
Ing Unless they had been in the main
satisfactory, it stands to reason there
would have been no such steady
growth In their use.
Mixed paints are necessarily cheaper
than paint Of the hand-mlxed kind. be
cause they are made In n large way by
machinery from materials bought In
large quantities by the manufacturer.
They are necessarily better than paints
mixed by hand, because they are more
finely ground and more thoroughly
mixed and because there Is less chance
Of the raw materials ia them being
adulterated. No painter, however care
full be may be, can ever be sure TINT
the materials he buys are not adulter-
ated, but the large paint manufacturer
does know in every case. because
everything he buys goes through the
chemists hands before he accepts it.
OF course there are poor paints on
the market (Which are generally cheap
palntsl. So there is poor flour, poor
cloth, poor soap; but because of that
do we go back to the hand-mll, the
hand-loom and the soap-kettle of the
backwoods? No, we use our common
sense in choosing goods. We find out
the reputation of the different brands
Of flour, cloth and soap; we take ac-
count of the standing of the dealer that
handles them. we ask our ueighbOrs.
So with paint; II the manufacturer has
good reputation, IL the dealer is re-
sponsible. If our nelghbors have had
satisfaction with 1t. that ought to be
pretty good evidence that the paint is
all right.
Many men Of many minds
Many paints OF many kinds;
but while prepared paints may differ
considerably In composition, the better
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