American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-04-18
Strange Sources From Which
Pigments Used by Modern
Painters Are Derived.
PRESERVATION OF SURFACES.
Crude but Effective Processes Employ
ed by the Egyptians and Greeks or
Pilny's nsy-Noah Prudentiy
Waterpreofed the Ark

meet q desire for beauty is q question sor
fully as knotty as the pcient one about ev.
the relative time of\arrival of the tat
chicken or the egg. Awas invented, wa
though, and 1t serves 10th purposes Ian
equally SO whether 1t nan offspring pal
Of mother necessity or anNdopted son Tn
Of beauty remains forevers disputed we
question. N,
The arst men, covering tder the r.
fierce and glaring suns OF tneeibiicai !,
countries. constructed rude hts OF H.
wood 70 shelter them. The perhaable Il
nature of these structures caused spid a
decay. and it is probable that thepc-
arnan+s seeking some artificial meps e
of preservation, hit upon the pisineF >
NJ the earth in their search, IL Is pe ?
hans natural to suppose that IL wy y
he instinct of preservation that ! w.
mon TO the search, although the giorls n,
90 the sunsets and the beauties OF I'll n
rainbow may have created a uesi'e l,ar
initiate those wonders in their u"
dwellings. ake
The earliest record of the appheuii
tion of a preservative to q Woouel l,
structure dates from the ark, "hieIt
was. according to the Bible, "pltcheu
! u,ttbin and without" The pitch was "
trinmnh of preservation whatever ~
lacked as a thing of beauty.
= Decoration applied to buildings nrsu
.e comes TO light with ancient BABYLON
lie whose walls were covered win repie.
g sensations of hunting scenes anu u
X combat. These were done In reu anu
- the method followed was to paint Ihe
"a scane on the bricks ct the ume VI
r manufacture, assuring permanence oS
baking. Strictly speaking, TINS was
as not nainting so much as 1t was th'
RS earliest manifestation of our W Ia
j. miliar kalsomlning.
Tba first Hebrew to mention palnt
ing is Moses. In the thirty-thlru chal
ter of the book of Numbers ne III
str,,cts the Israelites, "When we nav
nassed over the Jordan into the IAN
or, Of Canaan. then shall We drive out d
tho inhabitants of the land from o.
fore YOU and destroy all their Pr
. lures. :.
800, Az later periods the Jews adopte
+, u,.nv customs of the peoples who su
cessiyely obtained power over the
nd In the apocryphal book or u
Maccabees is found this alusloh
the art of decorating, "For as inc "'
tor builder of a new house must Gu
for the whole building, nut ne III
,ndartaketh TO set 1t out and paint
,sust sock out things for the adornl
thereof .
Although Homer gives credit TO
craar for Inc discovery Of paint,
illusions TO 1t In the DOCKS d "o
the painted mummy cases OF Ihe Es
tians and the decorated wslls OIL Dn
Ion and Thebes fix It's origin !"
nerIod long antecedent to the Gree
ora The walls Of Thebes were pa
cd o years before the coming
christ and 900 years before "o'
.uu smote his bloomin' Tyre.
naHS@5 The Greeks recognized the Vaiu'
faint as a preservative and made
of something akin TO II on thelr >,
p,tny writes of the mode of Dol
wax and painting ships win IT, d
which. he continues, neither the
nor the wind, nor the sun can ues
the wood thus protected
rho Romans, being essentlaii
urorIiLa neoale. never brought the
oration of buildings to the high
If had reached with the Greeks
uwum all that the ruins Of Pompeh
many structures whose mural dc
lions are In fair shape TO-DAY
coIors Used were glaring. A
background was the usual one an
.oubinations worked thereon req
low and blue.
IA the early Christian era the
,,osoics for churches somewhat
nIonted mural painting. Still,
,no retou of Justinian the Chul
Sai,t Sophia was built at Consta
ple and its walls were auorne'
paintings.
In modern times the uses OF
,ov. rome to be as numerous
mvrad shades and tints. IA
unioue in that its narse 1as nc
nvm and for It there Is no SUI
material. Bread is the stan OF i
naipt is the life OF the stan.
No one thinks Of the exterl'
wooden building now except IT
~ naint coated. Interiors, TO-
painted walls and stained II
down to the lowliest Kitchen
all receive their protective G
steel. SO often associated win
reinforcing, is painted before
70 give solidity to the manu-
stone. The huge girders OF
scrapers are daubed an ugly
Gent red underneath the sirt
NJ black. Perhaps the best
NJ the value Of paint on steel
in the venerable Brooklyn br
which a gang Of painters is
ing continually. II Is scarce
IN think Of q single manufac
ncle which does not meet pa
where in the course OF is
ton. 50 has paint grown
very marrow Of our lives.