SoMETHING of the scientist's joy—comparable with the thrill which shook Pomponius Ego, who first discovered that you can make a hard-boiled egg stand up by smashing one end—was mine yesterday, says Showman in the "Daily Herald."
For I discovered exactly how that imitation granite effect is produced on buildings. You paint a light bluish grey background. You let it dry. Then, as I observed, you smear it with black and dab away at it with a thing like a boot brush.
You give each dab a twisting motion. That is the art of it, And, as you dab, revelling in your creative art, you whistle the Penny Serenade.
This is a secret which I have long wanted to know. At last it is mine. I have not felt so happy since I found out how they put the soft centres in chocolates,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.