Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1916 — RED PAINT. [ARTICLE]

RED PAINT.

By Walt Mason.

Red paint is* pretty as pickled beets; of rich red paint let the poets sing! Red paint is good for the'rus-' tic seats, and excellent for the garden swing. We put red paint on the ham and fence, and know full well it will hold them down; red paint is good—but there is no sense in using it on the sleeping town. Red paint ; is wholesome and safe and sane, 1' i sing its worth on the stage and Stump; it's a splendid thing for the weathervane, and fine as silk for the' cistern pump. It can be used when you’d decorate the stable roof or the kitchen floor; oh, put three coats on the wicket gate, and spread it thick' on the henhouse door. It’s earned j the praises of tongue and pen, it is| far better than green or brown; it is a boon to the sons of men—but it’s no good for the sleeping town.