Show THE COSMETIC 0 00 THE INANIMATE qi II am the saver of surfaces ij 1 am the world old preserver iloah knew me for he pitched the ark within and without ithe pharaohs Phara sought me as an all adornment for their tombs their mummies endure because I 1 conserve ff HI I 1 am the of the ancient britons their blue battle hue because of me the treasures of the sistine chapel defy efface ill am the keeper of the antique II 11 am the servant of progress Il Columbus found me be decking the savages who watched him plant ferdinands banner on the shores of new spain and the very sails of his caravels caravell car avels resisted the elements of the west through my aid bithe pioneers westward wending their way daubed the prairie schooners ners with my protection III 11 II am the royal robes of civilizations monarchs steel and lumber ithe taut tau t wings of the airplane gleam under my protective veneer lithe sullen dreadnought dread naught and the homing tran transport port plow the seas impervious to corrosion because of me ill II waterproofed your agents of destruction the bullet and the shell ithen fithen I 1 drew the mercy of my concealing camouflage over your hospitals 1 glisten on the homes and on the barns and on the cement surfaces where life is I 1 am alive where death and decay set in my absence hastens them fland my mission is to preserve saver of surface I 1 am PAINT 1 V A 44 ka 01 4 ivl 11 REA k i 11 04 1 V R 41 k r t UZ r a SR ap z ar I 1 A b v A p I 1 i fata va V N N 81 8 M M r anu r Z 4 0 pr a 0 0 ij F A 4 4 t THE QUINCY MANSION QUINCY MASS BUILT IN 1685 americas classic example of a clapboard building preserved for over two hundred years by reful and pointing painting lt it has secret rands panels chimney staircase and dilding places said to lieve been used by smugglers later the home of great statesmen atal and of the tha famous belle dorothy quincy |