The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-07-11

lean people consume more paint, both
In the aggregate and per capita, than
any other people In the world. In a
recently published article on the SUBJ
tect 1t was figured that our yearly
consumption is over 100,000,OOO gallons
Of paints of all kinds, of which over
one-half is used In the paintings OF
houses.
The reason for this great c0nsump-
tion is twofold: large proportion Of
our buildings, especially in small
towns and rural districts, are con-
structed of wood, and we. as a people,
are given to neatness and cleanliness.
For, take it all in all, there is nothing
so cleanly or so sanitary as paint
Travel where we will throughout The
country, everywhere we find the neat.
cheerful painted dwelling. proclaUnng
at once the prosperity and the self
respect of our population.
Fifty years ago this was not so;
painted dwellings, while common in
the larger cities and towns, were tho
exception in the rural districts; be-
cause, on the one hand, large pro-
portion of those buildings were tenn
porary makeshifts, and, on the other
hand because paint was then luxury,
expensive and difficult to obtain in the
out.Ofthe-way places. and requiring
special knowledge and much prepara-
tion to fit it for use.
The introduction of ready mixed or
prepared paints, about 1860 changed
the entire aspect Of affairs. As the
Jack-of ll-trades told the Walking
Delegate in one of Octave Thanets
taYia II,
The insurmountabe difficulty with
our predecessors was TO get the paint
ready for "slathering." That the coun-
try was ready for paint in a convenient,
popular form is shown by the imme-
date success of the industry and its
phenomenal growth in fifty years from
nothing TO G0,OO0,00O gallons-the esti-
mated output for 1900.
Some pretty severe things have been
written about and said against this
class of paints, especially by painters
and manufacturers of certain kinds of
paste paints. Doubtless in many in
stances these Strict1res have been JUS
tilted and some fearfully and wonder
fully constructed mixtures have in the
past been worked off on the guileless
consumer in the shape of prepared
paint. But such products have had
their short day and quickly disap-
nfarturers that nrodnced them have
como 10 grief in +ba honLruntcv
courts mr. hove IeorneI Inv coetly oy-
nerience that bopestv is tha host mol
lev and ave reformed their wavs
The chief exceptions TO this lule are
some mail order houses who sell direct
10 tbe country trade Of a verv low
Icn-franuentlv below The wbolesoIe
nrica of linsood oil The huvar of ouch
Goods lilo Tho huvor of n ..goId brink -
noe onIy bi,reeIf to hloma If ha fnds
Lie nurchoea worthless With gold
Saline Of onv honl, or mint at q fixed
nrina oyyrrrs of cold dn not coll If at
a diSooun+. ord u.ftb Itnsood oil ounted
nvnrvwhcrn NJ fffv IA sevnntv cents n
gollnr n,onufoctnrars do mot coll n
nuro liuened oiI raint ot thirty mr. forty
conts , Gallon
THO comrositiop of nrenored noints
dierors hooarso naint ornnrts Toye NOT
yot ogroed &c ,o +bo host moments
and becouse tbe Goilu results Of tests
nm a largo sooIn arc constantly i'm
bror;ng tne formulas of monufa ctur
ers. INT oil have come to tbe conclu-
sion that tha essentials of good noint
Dre nura linseed oil fine grinding and
,bornugh incornorntion and in these
narticnlors oil tho nroducts of rppu-
,ohla manufact,,rcrs corresnond. all
fret class nrenared naints are thor
nrohly rnixad and grnund and tho fios
MD hosa 10 aImosf exclusively nure
linseed oil tbe necessary volatile
"thinnars" and Janan Drivers
rho nai,ter,s onnosition 10 sucb pro-
srcts is based largely on self.interest.
No want to miy the noint himself
and IN ha Maid for doiny If. and TO a