Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1916 — Profit In Paint. [ARTICLE]

Profit In Paint.

If paint didn’t do anything, but make the family feel more cheerful and give them more pride and selfrespect, it would really be worth all it costs, but in this day of high-priced lumber, and building material, paint really pays two profits—pays one profit in beauty and a second profit in lumber and dollars saved. Back in the day when the South was full otj. 'magnificent timber and we dldn t think of trees at all except as something mightily in the way when we wanted to clear a “new ground,” back in those days a man might have lived In an unpainted house and consoled himself that he wasn’t losing much except cheer and beauty. But that . day has ing now pays its way besides adding beautjj. In other words, you can get the fun and satisfaction and good cheer that come from living in a house that’s painted—you get all this “free gratis” as a sort of surplus by-product of the good common sense business deal that you make when you have your protected by paint. —Progressive Farmer.