Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-25

hH irish'Italian painter en-
claimed, when he had
i 4 ploughed about half way
through that well-known
Mona Lisa picture of his. II have put
my hand to the paint pot and will
not turn back"'
4 And just how he felt was some
thing which come over me recent,
when | and George, that's my hus-
band, decided to paint our car. The
need for doing so come over us one
afternoon when we was putting II
up in our ready made one-car garage.
The garage is kinda narrow and we
hat to use a shoe-horn to get the
car into 1t, one of us sitting at the
wheel, and the other using said shoe
horn. Then the one at the wheel has
10 climb out the window Of the garage
otter the car is in.
When the portable garage first
, come we couldn't figure out why the
window was there, on account the car
wouldn't naturally care about any
window to look out of. il wasn't as
If we expected to keep a horse in the
darn thing. But the first time we
used the garage we found out why
The window was there. Also why II
was called a. portable garage, For If
our car had been Il of a inch wider
and it had been in gear the car would
of portabled that little mail order
building right on over into the Vege'
Table garden
Well anyways, this putting the car
PIP and getting it out was kinda hard
bn the paint-je and this afternoon
I am speaking about, the poor lizzie
certainly looked something awful.
| really had ought to have that car
painted, says Geo. giving 1t the dou-
BILE ephis with a critical eye, II Is
sight, but with the motor skipping
nlong like it does, If that car was
painted over, you couldn't tell it from
new and we could get along with it
Tor the next eight or ten years!
And / says why yes, dear, but re-
painting is a awful expensive job,
it would cost at least $50! And he
says well I dunno, | heard that Gen
eral Buster got his car painted for
1888 over at the Slapdash Garage,
and it's a mighty fine job, he's had
it out for month and it's only just
beginning to crack. And / says well,
we would crack long before that,
track under the strain of paying for
it, have a idea, George, why not
patzG It ourselves?
Well, the answer to that why not
is d thing a person can only learn
couldn't see q thing against ii any
more then he would of seen against
taking a free present Of a million
dollars.
Why, he says, that's quite a idea,
Jennie. he says, it's really nothing
of q job, we could do 1t in about
hour. and all it would cost would be
the paint, got a coupla old brushes
somewheres around, one is a clothes
brush and the other is a tooth brush,
and / guess we could make out all
right with them. Then there is that
bottle of postwar hooch your uncle
sent us last Xmas we can use that
for paint remover, I'll bet we can
bring down the cost to about 75c at
most.
So / says. yeh. I believe you can,
dear, 1t was awful clever of you to
think of painting 1t ourselves, and
Geo. says oh well, 1 hat to use my
brains onct in a while. And he
laughed in that semi-modest way
husbands have of doing at such
times. And any thoroughly practical
wife, of which l am admittedly one,
will realize the point. If you want
q husband to do something, the first
stop Is to make him believe he
thought of it his own self.
Well, says Geo. then, what color
shall we paint it, black I guess. And
] says well, while we are at it, why
not have something real snappy?
think ii would look wonderful painted
light pink with dark green lines. And
Geo. says wonderful is correct, no,
think dark gray with magenta wheels
and blue running gear. / saw a peach
of job the other day, it was a Rolls
Royce in a painters collie green with
n little dash of lavender it was a won
der.
And I says l believe you, but /
don't believe it would look good on
our bus. how about us painting 1t
cafe-olay-eh- hoo? with new khaki
top and a nickel-plated spare tire?
And Geo. says no, not with this type
OF body, say, how about a nice bright
red, Ell? Oh, boy! Then we could put
F. ID. on the doors and have the right
of way through traffic all the time!
And I says yeh, but how could you
explain that to the Fire Department
IN case they was to object? And Geo.
says, we'll. we could always claim it
was our initials but the painter put
'em on a little large.
X r X y
WELL, seen where that idea
would only be good as long as it
lasted, so I suggested yellow. But