NPPF - Golden Paste

[jbor]

>> --- "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel at cox.net> wrote:
>>> EDNOTE. "How fully I fdelt nature glued to me   /
>>> And how my childish palate loved the taste /
>>> Half-fish, half-honey of that golden paste! / My
>>> picture book was at an early age.
>>> ------------------
>>> I believe the golden paste is simply the glue that was called mucilage that
> used to be common in school rooms and used by kids at home through most of
> this
> century and probably the last for pasting together their art junk.
>>> 
>>> It came in a bottle with a reddish rubber sort of a nipple that you rubbed
> on whatever surface you were going to stick something to, say, a photo snipped
> from Life magazine into a scrap book.
>>> 
>>> I would bet almost every kid who used this stuff tasted it at some time.

If the paste (Elmer's glue, was it? -- we used Clag, which was white and had
the consistency of milky porridge, or another sort of glue which was clear
and quite runny) was a golden colour, and if it had the conspicuous taste
Shade recalls, then this would seem a logical and reasonable suggestion.

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