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Show WHAT WIFE SAYS "GOES." But It Sometimes Is Bad for the Painting. When a property-owner knows nothing noth-ing about paint it is bad for the property-owner, and bad for the painter. paint-er. It would not be so if the property-owner property-owner would always hire a skilled painter, and then really leave everything every-thing to him. But the house-owner so often fools himself on one or the other of these things. The skilled painter in every community commu-nity has some of the most incompetent competitors that ever vexed a conscientious consci-entious workman or contractor, and the incompetents get jobs generally by working cheap. In the next place, when the skilled painter is hired, they do not leave everything to him, as so many property-owners boast they do. They interfere most ignorantly and most fatally. They insist sometimes on using paint materials without investigating in-vestigating whether they are good or not. Or perhaps they insist on the painter's hurrying the work; "I'm not going to have that painter's mess around my house a month," the wife says, and what wife says goes at the cost of a lot of wasted painting money. If the painter slays away a few days to allow the paint to thoroughly dry. the owner says: "That painter's neglecting this work guess he's sidetracking side-tracking me for Jones' work. I won't stand it." What chance does a painterhave to do good work for a man who is continually nagging at him and otherwise handicapping handi-capping him (without meaning it, of course) ? A poor job is the inevitable result of such interference. Poor painting costs the houseownei money don't forget that. It might pay you to get the practical paint book, painting specifications and instrument in-strument for detecting paint adulterants, adul-terants, which National Lead Co. are offering under the title of House Owner's Painting Outfit No. 49. Address Ad-dress National Lead Co., 1902 Trinity Bldg., New York City. This company do not make paint (they leave that to the painter to do) but they make pure white lead ("Dutch Boy Painter" trademark kind), and they can tell you how to save money by securing durable painting. |