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Show WHAT WIFE 8AY3 "GOE8." Dut It Sometimes Is Bad for tho Palntlnn. Whon a property-owner knows nothing noth-ing about paint It Is bad for tho property-ownor, and bad for tho painter. paint-er. It would not bo so if tho property-owner property-owner would always hlro a skilled painter, nnd then really leave everything every-thing to him. But tho houso-ownor so often fools himself on ono or tho other of theso things. Tho skilled painter In ovory community commu-nity has somo of tho most lncompotent competitors that ovor vexod a conscientious consci-entious workman or contractor, and tho incompetents get Jobs generally by working cheap. In tho next place, wjicn tho skilled painter Is hired, thoy do not leave everything to him, as so many property-owners boast they do. Thoy lnlcrforo most Ignorantly nnd most fatally. Thoy Insist Bomctlmos on using paint materials without Investigating In-vestigating whether they aro good or not. Or perhaps they insist on tho painter's hurrying tho work. "I'm not going to havo that painter's mess around my house a month," tho wlfo says, and what wlfo Bays goes at tho cost of a lot of wasted painting money. If tho painter stays away a fow days to allow tho paint to thoroughly dry tho owner says: "That painter's neglecting this work guess he's sidetracking side-tracking mo for Jones' work. I won't stand It." What chance docs a palnterhavetodo ?ood work for a man who Is continually nagging at him and othorwlBO handicapping handi-capping him (without meaning it, ot course) ? A poor Job is the lnovltablo result ot Buch Interference. Poor painting costs tho houscowncr money don't forget that. It might pay you to get tho practical paint book, painting specifications nnd Instrument In-strument for detecting paint adulterants, adul-terants, which National Lead Co. aro ottering under tho tltlo of Houso Owner's Painting Outfit No. 49. Address Ad-dress National Lead Co., 1902 Trinity Bldg., Now York City. This company do not make paint (they lcavo that to tho painter to do) but they mako puro white lead ("Dutch Boy Painter" trndomark kind), and they can tell you how to save monoy by securing durablo pointing. |