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Show Early Day Painting In the days when paint recipes were kept in the family cook book, our colonial ancestors knew about making paint out of skimmed milk, which is basically the same idea as the modern casein paint of today to-day which has a milk base. Colonial Colo-nial dames mixed skimmed milk with salt, boiled rice, coffee and egg-white egg-white when they wanted a batch of paint for freshening up their houses. And a painted house was a matter of social prestige. It was considered presumptuous for a tradesman to paint his dwelling. Gradually, though, as the idea of equaUty penetrated, the butcher and the baker and the candlestick maker decided they had as much right to paint their houses as the doctor, lawyer and ship owner. |