Human nature is at its worst when it comes across a sign saying "paint" resting gingerly on the walls of some stairway. There surges within most individuals an irresistible impulse either to carry off the placard and relax it against the faucet of a washbowl, or else refuse to take the painter at his word and run a testing finger along the damp surface until the amount of paint collected on the digit impedes further progress. The result is probably worse than no sign at all, in which case bitter experience with new coats would soon deaden curiosity and remove all friction between the wall and the man.
But one imaginative painter hit upon a much more satisfying if not a more satisfactory solution. He hung a forest of "paint" signs all along the wall but left room for a large square one at the top of the stairs that smiled down upon the painting pedestrians as it remarked, "Yes, it is wet."
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PEERS DISCUSSES SPAIN
