Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1903 — Rare Brown Paint. [ARTICLE]

Rare Brown Paint.

Ground-up mummy makes a brown of a certain rare color that nothing else can give. It is on account of tho asphaltum In the mummy that this is so. The Egyptians wrapped their dead in garments coated with asphalturn of an Incomparably fine and pure quality. This asphaltum, as the cefr turles passed, impregnated the tissues, of the dead themselves. It turned them Into the beet paint material hi the world. Being exceedingly expensive, It Is used only by portrait painters in depicting brown hair.