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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1919)
THE ALLIANCE (NEBRASKA) HERALD Thursday April 24, 1919 AI.'TIQUITY OF : DECORATIVE ART Strange Sources From Which Picments Used by Modern Painters Are Derived. PRESERVATION OF SURFACES. CrutU but Effective Processes Employ j d by th Egyptians and Greeks of 4 Pliny's DayNoah Prudently ' Waterproofed the Ark. " A letter received In Indianapolis from a Danville colored man In mili tary service In France told of a Joke the colored boys h:d at the expense of the Huns. A rnlored division had relieved a white division during the nittlri, when the Oermans were send ing over a regular shower of pas shells. The heavy fighting continued the next dny, and a German prisoner liken by the colored boys was heard to remark: "We can't whip these Yanks, and there Is no une trying. The more gas we Bend over on them the blacker they turn and the harder hey fight." Whether paint was Invented In an km i in n need for a preservative or to i. eel it desire for beauty Is a question i, .iiv n knotty as the sm lent one about ti n In 1 1 vp time of arrival of the rl.ii ki-u or the egg. It was Invented, ttiiuji'i. and It serves both purposes i j tin ' : ; so whether it Is an offspring i ;' nxiilicr necessity or an adopted sod r beauty remains forever a disputed , ,i Slli. II. I he first men, cowering under the l - ue ti ml glaring suns of the biblical J ...iirlis, constructed rude huts of W.. .1 In shelter them. The perishable pi .re of iliese struct tires caused rapid Jt i. mill It Is prolmbte that the oc cu, mil-. seeking some artificial means of ; i(" ' rvntlon, hit upon the pigments f ilie .mill in their search. It Is per hi ; h i annul to suppose that It was tl. Iri-i'uci of preservation that led m to i lie search, although the glories of i In- - niets and the ben titles of the rali.hov limy have created a desire to linltuti' ilmse wonders In their own Iwcllin;. s. i Tin .idlest record of the applica tion i f n pretiepvatlve to a wooden f ruciv.ie dates from the ark, which yas, ii. i ..nllng to the r.ible, "pitched v thin iit.il without." The pitch wus a n :m !i of preservation whatever It liii :.ed us h thing of beauty. I'l'Ciiiiiinii applied to buildings first ci. es to lllit with ancient Ititliylon, v ln.se whIIs were covered with rep re n t iittlon.s of huntliiK scenes and of luinlnif. These were done In red and tl.e i... tlmil followed was to paint the sme on the bricks at the time of ii. iuinfiM iiire, assuring permanence by tnkin'. Strictly speaking, thli was ii"t pnlntliiK so much as It was the cn'iiiM manifestation of our own fa il. I'm I-ii K.. mining. T'. e tirst Hebrew to mention paint In;, i Mmm's. In the thirty-third chap ter nf i lie book of Numbers he In nmeis the Israelites, "When ye have - .--il over the Jordan Into the land t f iiMii in. then hhnll ye drive out all t! e It 'i. I.Iuhiis of the land from be fi e .ni tihtl destroy all their pic- At I, iter periods the Jews adopted many x tih'oinx of the peoples who sue- csslwiy' obtained power over them i i l in ilia npocryphal hook of the Mnei ii'.ees Ji found this allusion to the an of dc-onitiiijj, "For ns the mus ter builder i I a new house must cure for '! e wi de building, but he that v ; 1 1 1 1 1 ; i k t ! i to set It out mid paint It, niii ! seek out things for the udorning tin ft-.. f." Although limner gives credit to a tSruk for the discovery of paint, the nil :-'tliH to it In the books of Moses, il.i- painted mummy cases of the FtfJ'p ti.nig mid tlie decorated wulls of Ilaliy I' ll ii ud 'Jlicl.es fix Its origin at a period Ion;: uiitecedent to the Grecian era. The walls of Thebes were paint ed 1.IKX' .venrs before tho coming of Ctrl!, M..I !Hm years before 'Oilier inioto lu iiiooinin' lyre." T!. Hi. ei.s recognized the value of a- preservative and made use of i... inc.! u akin to It on their ships. JMi: . vm; i s of the mode of boiling wax ami Minting ships with It, after Which, he continues, "neither the sea, nor the wind, nor the sun can destroy thf v I thus protected. Tiie It. minus, being essentially a mui ke people, oever brought the dec ora. ' i. of t.uildliigs to the high plane It h.i i i-'- 'i Led with the Greeks. For 11 Mi-. In' ruins of Pompeii show snai v : met urea w hose mural decora tloi ti i v In fair shape today. The Tt'iT- ved were glaring. A black tRi t. tii'iud wns the usual one and the eomi i: iiMnns worked thereou red, yel low ni.'t LI lie. In tit early Christian era the use of m.'Mi.s fur churches somewhat aup ll: t.i.'.l in n h I painting. Still, during the - .- of Justinian the Church of .vh.i.i s M'li's was built at Constantino ple siil Its walls were adorued with .il:lll .. In i;u.."iti times the uses of paint hsve eiiitie to be as numerous as Ita mvriiiil shades and tints. I'alnt Is m;.'.ii. i'i lint its name .ins no syito ii.M.t Mid inr It there Is no substitute niaiei i.il. itieiid Is the staff of life, but paint i the life of the staff. Nit i.e thinks of the exterior of a W i'.l ! building now except In terms of paint coii'eil. Interiors, too, from pa nted walls and stained furniture d vn ti the lowliest kitchen utensil, all recti-' their protective covering. S'eel. so i fien associated with cement i.-eiii.-rcii:. is .minted before It goes it s:ie sv'.i li'y to the manufactured ' t Tie huge girders of the tky. i- i .i ii - a i daubed an ugly but eCl h i t .1 i.M .n euth the sarface coat if I ;. 1'i.haps the best example i i ih ip.l i.f paint on steel Is found ;n t' v . .,! le lirooklyu bridge, on ilvi 1 - of painter Is kept go- i g ' v. It is scarce sstbl 1 . : . '!igie ma tin fin tu red ar t.c ' ' -l.-i-s not meet pulnt some- The total of the small and steady lavings of the Swiss is so great that their savings institutions have to go to foreign rountries to tind Invest ments for a large hare of their de posits. It pays to advertise In The Herald. DRINK HOT WATER BEFORE BREAKFAST Says you really feel clean, sweet and fresh inside, and are seldom ill. If yon are accustomed to wake up with a coated tongue, foul breath or a dull, dl.7.y headache; or, If your meals sour and turn Into gas and acids, you have a real surprise await ing you. 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