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Evening Star, Issue 18259, 26 April 1923, Page 4

How many people are aware that “ mummy," whicja figures in artist's colormen’s catalogues, is what it* name indicates? The transparent brown paint is actually Hie remains of long ago dead Egyptians ground up with oil. It is a gruesome idea, but there it is, end Holman Hunt used to tell a story about an artists' oolorman who once, when his supply of “ mummy ” had run short, went to the British ilusoum, hoping to buy there a-n unwanted mummy! Into a suburban chemist’s Tliero came a woman bearing a bottle, which she handed to the proprietor. “Is this all right to take?" she asked. The chemist inqpoclcd the bottle carefully. “You didn’t buy tills hero, I think?” bo said courteously. "Oh, no. It’s a nerve tonic I saw advertised. 1 folt a bit dubious about it, and I thought you’d tell me whether I ought to take it." 'The chemist' handed the bottle back. “I don’t think.-.’’ he replied, ’ there ia »nr necessity for you to take it. There U nothing' wrong with roiw ncrvft.’’