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FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1919.
ANTIQUITY OF i
DECORATIVE ART
Strange Sources From Which
Pigments Used by Modern
Painters Are Derived.
PRESERVATION OF SURFACES.
Crude but Effective Process Employ
ed by the Egyptians and Greeks of
Pliny’s Day—Noah Prudently
Waterproofed the Ark.
J’ Whether paint was Invented in an
swer to a need for a preservative or to
meet a desire for beauty is a question
fully as knotty as the ancient one about
the relative time of arrival of the
chicken or the egg. It was invented,
though, and it serves both purposes
equally; so whether it is an offspring
of mother necessity or an adopted son
of beauty remains forever a disputed
question.
The first men, cowering under the
fierce and glaring suns of the biblical
countries, constructed rude huts of
jwood to shelter them. The perishable
nature of these structures caused rapid
decay, and It is probable that the oc
cupants, seeking some artificial means
of preservation, hit upon the pigments
of the earth in their search. It is per
haps natural to suppose that it was
the instinct of preservation that led
men to the search, although the glories
of the sunsets and the beauties of the
rainbow may have created a desire to
imitate those wonders in their own
■dwellings.
The earliest record of the applica
tion of a preservative to a wooden
structure dates from the ark, which
was, according to the Bible, “pitched
within and without." The pitch was a
triumph of preservation whatever it
Tacked as a thing of beauty.
Decoration applied to buildings first
■comes to light with ancient Babylon,
whose walls were covered with repre
sentations of hunting scenes and of
combat. These were done In red and
the method followed was to paint the
scene on the bricks at the time of
manufacture, assuring permanence by
baking. Strictly speaking, this was
not painting so much as it was the
earliest manifestation of our own fa
miliar kaisomining.
The first Hebrew to mention paint
ing is Moses. In the thirty-third chap
ter of the book of Numbers he in
structs the Israelites, “When ye have
passed over the Jordan into the land
■of Canaan, then shall ye drive out ail
the inhabitants of the land from be
fore you and destroy all ffieir pic
tures. ...”
At later periods the Jews adopted
many customs of the peoples who suc
cessively obtained power over them
and in the apocryphal book of the
Maccabees is found this allusion to
the art of decorating, “For as the mas
ter builder of a new house must care
for the whole building, but lie that
undertaketh to set it out and paint it,
must seek out tilings for the adorning
thereof.”
Although Homer gives credit to a
Greek for the discovery of paint, the
allusions to it in the books of Moses,
the painted mummy cases of the Egyp
tians and the decorated walls of Baby
lon and Thebes fix its origin at a
period long antecedent {o tiie Grecian
era. The walls of Thebes were paint
ed 1,900 years before the coming of
Christ and 996 years before “ ’Orner
emote his bloomin’ lyre.”
The Creeks recognized the value of
paint as a preservative and made use
of something akin to it on their ships.
Pliny writes of the mode of boiling
wax and painting ships with it, after
which, he continues, “neither the sea,
nor the wind, nor the sun can destroy
the wood thus protected.”
The Romans, being essentially a
warlike people, never brought the dec
oration of buildings to the high plane
it had readied with the Greeks. For
all that the ruins of Pompeii show
many structures whose mural decora
tions are in fair shape today. The
colors used were glaring. A black
background was the usual one and the
combinations worked thereon red, yel
low and blue.
In the early Christian era the use of
mosaics for churches somewhat sup
planted mural painting. Still, during
the reign of Justinian the Church of
Saint Sophia was built at Constantino
ple and its walls were adorned with
paintings.
In modern times the uses of paint
have come to be as numerous as its
myriad shades and tints. Paint Is
ufiique in that its name -tas no syno
nym and for It there Is no substitute
material. Bread is the staff of life, but
paint Is the life of the staff.
’No one thinks of the exterior of a
wooden building now except in terms
of paint coated. Interiors, too, from
painted walls and stained furniture
down to the lowliest kitclwn ' utobml.
all receive their protective covering.
Steel so often associate/) with cement
re-enforcing, Is painted before it goes
to- give solidity to the manufactured
stone. The huge girders of the sky
scrapers are daubed an ugly but effi
cient red underneath the surface coat
of black. Perhaps the best example
of the value of paint on steel Is found
In the venerable Brooklyn bridge, on
which a gang of painters is kept go
ing continually. It is scarce possible
to think of a single manufactured ar
ticle which does not meet paint some
where in the course of Its construc
tion So has paint grown into the
jrery marrow of our Uvea.
Lieut. Stout, Flying
T eacher, Discharged
SOUTHER FIELD, April 25.—Lieut.
Samuel C. Stout, Reserve Military
Aviator, with over three hundred
hours as an instructor in flying to his
credit, has received his honorable dis
charge from the Army at Souther
Field and is turning to Chicago to en
ter the tractor business. Lieutenant
Stout was * well known throughout
Georgia for his daring and extremely
capable flying. He arrived at South
er Field, Sept,, 3, 1918, after graduat
ing from the instructor’s course at
Brooks’ Field.
Major Courtney P. Grover, M. C.,
who for the last two weeks has been
post surgeon at Souther Field, has
just received his honorable discharge
from the Army. Prior to reporting
at Souther Field, Major Grover was
District Surgeon for the Southeastern
District. Captain Bridgman will act
as both post surgeon and recruiting
officer for the Air Service at Souther
Field.
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This is 1919—not 1819. Every up-to-date home has its electrical appli
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Do you know the joy of an Electric j "S
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OVER THREE CAR LOADS SOLD AND IN USE
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WITH( UT FOUNDATION and FALSE.
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