Show AS A DYE lilts it to the t seat 1 I tims arfa 0 r most host of us have a alight acQua lat race with noad from early childhood baying been taught that the early urit brit oci ors smeared themselves ies with sith this dye cither either for the purpose of terrifying their enemies or beautifying their per soon curiously enough the latin hirt differ aa as to the color one pronouncing it to be blue another black a third green As a matter of fact they are all correct though blue Is is the lae usual extraction sometimes the material will come out green while the hands of the woodworkers worker become as black us as negroes neg roea bands and are any on restored ree to the natural hue line with the change of skin akin in the middle of the sixteenth century came the importation of indigo and in the interests of the home trade these attempts were only partially and temporarily successful and eventually indigo superseded d wad both being a cheaper and more brilliant de but now a curious thing happened happen cd it looked for all the world orld as it if bad had been rushed out of ex lat laterre Is teDi erce and could nver raise its head a aal aia and indeed most of the factories bad had to put up their shutters so that nine people out of ten are probably ignorant of the fact that I 1 Is 5 still till used by dyers experiments however ho ever proved that the addition of a certain percentage of at fermented to indigo produced a much taster faster dye an and all the best blue materials I 1 te rials si st ch as policemen a and naval officers leers off uni uniforms foris are ded with a mixture of coq I 1 and indigo notes and queries |