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II FIREWORKS.
Pyrotechnic Products Must
lUI nme Onan Open Air, Air
pry In the
fRYING POR NEW DESIGNS.
of A rtists Continually Devising
c!l»r a Schemes Construction to Be Worked of the Outjn Set
.yvork of the Chemists.
Pieces
firs t step in manufacturing fire
_
is the making of the cases, or
v, cylinders nr or other other TOO reccp
tirih the explosives ana the
the
rrac -
«» of these arG “ ade ° f lD ” U ;
Itically " sheets of tissue paper pasted
liiirri hie until the thickness
■ rolled together Most of those
“ made by machinery and are
feared al e the places
litre as wanted to
they are to be filled or charged
E the materials charging that have is been done pre- by
All the
arhlnery except in the big shells that
L forth sets each of stars "star” of has varying to be
I colors. Io these
[placed !u a certain position so as to
explode iu just the right way at the
[proper instant. weather the
1 of doors In pleasant
I Out fuse-“qulck match” they
long lines of
fare called— are made. These are wound
on reels six or seven feet across. Their
basis is loose cotton cord covered with
various highly inflammable chemicals.
•Quick match," roman candles and a
j number of other pyrotechnic products
cannot be dried by artificial beat. They
niust lie in the open air until the mois¬
ture used in mixing the chemicals
! evaporates.
All the year around the artists on
the staff of the pyrotechnic manufac¬
turers are taxing their brains design
I i„g color schemes to be worked out in
fire. Outside of the big set pieces,
which are much iu vogue, a great deal
I of attention is given to rockets,
! bombs and rocket bombs, of which
there are innumerable kiuds. When
the artist has evolved some striking
color effect he turns over his painting
to the chemists, whose task it is to
combine various combustible ingredi
1 ents so ns to reproduce what the
painter has put on his canvas. The
race between the art department and
the staff chemists is unending. It is
the boast of the chemists that they
can duplicate iu their burning colors
any combination of paints that can be
presented to them.
These colors are imparted by the
heated vapors of certain metals. So¬
dium, for instance, gives a yellow
light, calcium red, strontium crimson
and barium green. The number of
chemicals, common and rare, employed
in the manufacture of fireworks is
prodigious. Take blue stars, for in¬
stance. These are commonly produced
by a combination of chlorate of potash,
calomel, sulphuret of copper, oxychlo¬
ride of copper, dextrin, stearin, black
oxide of copper, copper filings and sal
ammoniac.
Every fireworks manufacturer has
his carefully guarded trade secrets.
Pyrotechnics in its various branches
and as a whole is taught in no uni
versify, and there is little printed lit¬
erature on the subject.
The construction of the set pieces,
especially jf they are large, is a huge
task. First the artist draws the pic¬
ture. it is complete in every detail
of outline and shade of color. This Is
marked off into equal squares, each of
which represents a square foot In the
actual reproduction in fire. Sections
of light boards, say, 20 by 25 feet are
built and laid Hat on the ground, and
toe-tangles a foot square are marked
thereon. On the section is outlined
the picture that the artist has made,
with the different colors indicated in
"mir proper groupings. Loose over
this is built a checkerboard frarne
work of light lathe. Then come men
wlttl strips of rattan. They tack these
t° dle framework, following exactly
putv line that has been indicated on
o boards below, -leaving practically a
huge line drawing in rattan.
aen c °me meu with thousands of
,
S pins—ordinary !ou pins, but about au
S- These are set iu the rattan
a u inch i apart. These are followed by
other - men, who cut the heads off the
mm. After this comes a gang of meu
1 bundles of little fireworks, two
,
c es lou S by one-quarter to three
quarter inches in diameter, iu varying
colors or combinations of color to cor
espond with the original drawing,
nese are called “gerbes.” When ig
ted fbey emit sheaves of fire. These
s'ln 0 lUcl£
!’ on the pius and glued, each
the COl0r 1U * tS Pr ° Per plac * a,0Dg
frame k
after this has been done auother
“quick .1 f comes with hundreds of feet of
match" and connects all these
,' sands of “gerbes” together. Loose
en , i* U *i e k°
wh rc and there for firing
sot V 1 -1 piece ben these ls in sections P'ace ready hoist¬ to be
' are
ed --- nocuous are uoisc
in/- ° ^ P r positions, aft
er j ua ^ °Per and
tor Ulte u la ^ 0r everything is ready
tt 6 " oudei ful
Whirl ' delight to the eye,
rninii* ias * between one and four
from S sw ’bftly does the fire run
“ ger be”
to “gerbe” through this
tare” “ atcb ” that the biggest “pic
aflam is usuall y shown will be
e t n every
mi 18 part In three seconds.
Per sald f° be little or no dan
fcVen ‘out firing ---® these set oKi pieces purees ur or
i
plode off tbe bombs that ex
ends f 1 Suc * ,<luick k fearsome noise. The
“Dort o re « * match,” where the
do s a PpHed by the men who
that gu!tin ®. are carefully timed so
nt'!?’ ti bave Plenty of
out or the chance to get
way.—New York Press.
deiw ^^s-Latln Without a friend menu the the world > is a wll
iToverh.
WAKING IP WILLIAM
His Wily Wife Finally Got What
She Was After.
IT WAS A WELL PLAYED GAME
William Was a Little Slow, but When
the Lady’s Trump Card Was Played
He Said Just What She Wanted Him
to Say From the Very Start.
“William,” said Mrs. Gilmartin, bend¬
ing over the sewing in her lap, “what
do you think we’d better have Thurs¬
day night when the Pritchards come?”
Mr. Gilmartin lowered his paper an
Instant and stared across the table at
her.
“Have?” he said. “Why, I suppose
we’ll have a couple of games of cinch
and a lot of foolish talk, as usual.”
“I mean what will we have to eat—
stupid!” explained his wife. “You
know they always have a little lunch
when we go over to their place.”
“Oh, to eat!” echoed Gilmartin, re¬
suming his newspaper. “Why, have
whatever you like. I don’t care.”
Mrs. Gilmartin sighed and patted the
Revving on her knee after taking a fur
live glance at ber engrossed husband.
“That’s easy enough to say,” she ob¬
served, “but I want to talk to you
about It. This Is important. Do help
me out, Will,” she added. “I’ve
thought until I’m dizzy, and nothing
seems quite the thing.”
“H-m-m!”-said Gilmartin, frowning
at the wall paper and trying to think.
“Why, I should think—er—almost any¬
thing would do that’s—er—nice— what¬
ever they usually have, you know,” he
added rather helplessly. “Go ahead
and get up a nice little supper. You
know' how.” And he calmly resumed
his newspaper.
“But this is different, dear,” persist
id Mrs. Gilmartin, puckering her
brows and her sewing in her agitation.
“Tills is Mrs. Pritchard's birthday,
and we invited them to celebrate it
with us weeks and weeks ago. You
know she’s such a stickler for having
everything Just right. I’m worried
sick.”
“What is there to worry about?” de¬
manded her husbaud, looking over the
top of the paper in surprise. “I sup¬
pose the Pritchards eat about the same
sort of things the rest of us do. I
never saw much difference the few
times we had a bite with them. They
aren't nny better than we are, as far
as I can see. I guess what’s good
enough for us is good enough for A1
Pritchard and his wife.”
Mrs. Gilmartin heaved another rath¬
er pathetic sigh and said: “It isn’t the
actual food I’m worrying about and
whether it will be, as you say, good
enough for them. That’s silly. But It’s
the selection of a little menu for a
birthday party and the table decora¬
tions and the lights and—and every¬
thing,” she added. “Mrs. Pritchard
says it’s the little things that show- the
clever housekeeper.”
There was silence for a few mo¬
ments, and then Mrs. Gilmartin ven¬
tured a suggestion:
“Creamed oysters are nice,” she said.
Urn-hum,’’ breathed tlie head of the
house absently. “What was that?” he
demanded, turning suddenly. “I didn’t
hear.”
“I said creamed oysters are nice,” re¬
peated Mrs. Gilmartin.
“Sure! Of course they are!” he de¬
clared with enthusiasm. “All right.
Let’s have creamed oysters,” and he
dived into the stock market reports.
“Well, you don't imagine we can
make a whole birthday supper off
creamed oysters, do you?” demanded
Mrs. Gilmartin indignantly. “There
must he a lot of other things thought
of. Mrs. Pritchard says it's just these
little affairs that bring out real tact
and good taste.”
“Oh, bother Mrs. Pritchard!” snap¬
ped Gilmartin.
“Why, Will!” said his wife mildly.
“I’m afraid you’re out of sorts this
evening, and i did want to have a nice
long talk about this little supper, be
cause so much depends on it.”
“1 beg your pardon,” said her bus
band contritely, laving down bis pa
per “I didn’t mean to be cross. Now,
what will we have after the creamed
oysters?”
“I suppose a chicken salad or some
thing like that would be all right,”
said Mrs Gilmartin rather doubtfully,
“and we ought have a stuffed to
mato, although that seems awfully
common and ordinary for a birthday
party. You know the Pritchards al
ways turn the whole thing over to
Robbem, who lias that caterer's place
near them, whenever they have any
thing sort of formal—a birthday or a
holiday party like this, you know.”
“What do we want of a caterer to
get up supper for four people?” de
jnanded Mr. Gilmartin. “You can get
away with It in great shape with Hilda
to help you out.”
“Oh, I didn't mean for us to get Hob
bem,” she said, glancing at him from
beneath her lashes. “I was Just telling
you how easy it is for them. Mrs.
Pritchard says It’s absurd for people
to go to the expense of hiring a caterer
for a small affair unless they have
plenty of money.” and took
Mr. Gilmartin stood up a
turn across the floor.
“Oh, she does, does she?” he said
defiantly. “Is that so? Well, you Just
go over to Bobbem’s tomorrow and put
the whole thing in his hands stand and^quit for It j
worrying 1 guess we can
i £ rs-r asssjs:
s&fta: -
THE COVINGTON NEWS
CHARMSOFUGLYMEH
Ca $e of John Wilkes, the Famous
London Alderman. ...
HE WEDDED A NOTED BEAUTY
And He Wae So Homely That Hie
Looks Frightened the Children In the
Streets-Bailly, With a Face Like a
Horse, Won a Famous French Beauty.
There w'as perhaps as much truth
as boasting in the statement of John
Wilkes, the famous London alderman
and champion of British electors,
bgly as I am, if I can have but a
quarter of an hour’s start I will get
the better of any man, however good
looking, In the graces of any woman.”
Of Wilkes’ abnormal ugliness there
was never a question, for Is it not re¬
corded that the “very children in the
street ran away affrighted at the sight
of him?” And yet his powers of fasci¬
nation were so great that “indies of
beauty and fashion vied with each
other for his notice, while men of
handsome exterior and all courtly
graces looked enviously on.”
There were, it Is said, few beauties
of the day whose hand Wilkes might
hot have confidently hoped to win, and
when he led Mary Mead to the altar
he made a wife of one of the richest
and most lovely women of her time.
“ 'Beauty and the Beast' they call us,”
W likes once said to his friend Tatter,
“and I cannot honestly find fault with
the description.”
Jean Paul Marat, whose name will
always be associated with the evil
history of the French revolution, was
notoriously the ugliest man of his day
In Tarls. When this reputation reach¬
ed his ears Marat is said to have re¬
marked, “But why limit my suprema¬
cy to Tarls?” And Indeed the restric¬
tion was much too modest.
And yet in his earlier years, when
he was the most popular of court doc¬
tors, his very ugliness seemed to exer¬
cise such a fascination over aristocrat¬
ic ladies that they crowded his consult¬
ing rooms in order to catch a glimpse
of and to exchange words with him
under the flimsiest pretexts of imag¬
inary ailments. The studied indiffer¬
ence with which he treated alike their
charms and their flattery only made
them the more insistent until he de¬
clared to a friend that he would have
to fly from Paris to escape the perse¬
cution of his fair admirers.
Bailly, mayor of Paris at the time of
the reign of terror, is said to have
had a face almost exactly like that of
a horse. His appearance was, In fact,
so abnormal, so monstrous, that chil¬
dren shrieked and women fainted at
the very sight of him, and yet his wife
was one of the most lovely women In
the whole of France—so lovely that as
a girl she was known as “the beautiful
angel.”
That there is a powerful fascination
for some women in extreme ugliness is
proved by innumerable cases in which
women who have been richly dowered
with physical charms have fallen mad¬
ly in love with men of almost repulsive
appearance.
A London paper records a remark
able case of this kind in 1817, when
Lady Mary X. married Mr. Mudford,
a London attorney.
Lady Mary was a girl of peerless
charms, the most beautiful of all the
court ladles and the favorite toast of
the world of aristocrats. She might—
for her birth and fortune were almost
equal to her beauty—have chosen her
husband from among dukes, and even
more than one royal prince sought her
hand in vain.
To the consternation of society, she
married Mr. Mudford, not only “a pet¬
tifogging attorney,” but a man of al¬
most unnatural ugliness of face and
with a deformed hand and foot. Sin¬
gular, too, as It may appear, her mar¬
ried life was one of unclouded happi¬
ness, and to her dying day, nearly forty
years later, she never seemed to have
a moment’s regret for her choice of a
husband.
Still more remarkable was the story
told of a most beautiful heiress with
an attachment for one of the freaks j
of a traveling show, and she per- ;
slsted in marrying him in spite of all j
tho ( ' fTorts of her frionds and relations, j
This singular object of her nffeitions :
masqueraded under the title of “the
man monkey, or the ugliest man in the
world,” and he had an excellent claim
to the titl e.—Exc hange.
Virginia Cabbage
Select a small, fine pointed head of
cabbage, cuttiug off the top for a ltd.
Cut out the center, leaving a wall an
i nc h thick. Chop one cupful of cab
t, age very fine, then add one veal, cupful J
e ach of ground ham and one
grated onion and finely chopped green !
pepper, six rolled crackors, two beaten
e ggs, one cupful of milk, two table- i
spoonfuls of melted butter, one-half]
teaspoonful each of celery salt and
sa it, one saltspoonful of white pepper j
an< i two dashes of cayenne. Mix thor- j
oughly, till cabbage, tie on the lid, put .
[ n a ehe^ecloth bag and boll in salted
water for one hour. Slice crosswise
and serve with cream sauce. Dell- |
clous. Serve the potato croquettes on |
the same platter.-Chieago Becord-Her
aid.
Fatherly Advice.
“Dad,” said the country youth who
had Just graduated from the district
80 hool, “I h«ve long cherished^a deMre
t o go on the stage and have at lai
z sr rr rs ^
TO MY FRIENDS
Georgia Made Top Buggies
For $49.oo. For $55.oo. For 6 O. 00 . For 65.oo.
You cannot save $ 20.00 on these prices nor $ 1.00 either]
These pric *s for cash, but will sell on time for a small advance.
D. A. Thompson.
PROFITS CUT ALL
TO PIECES ON
PIANOS
Ten or Fifteen Different Makes.
$10 Profit on Factory Prices.
See This Line Before You Make
Your Purchase.
It Means Money To you.
C. A. HARWELL
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Leader In «
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Furniture and Undertaking
Covington, Ga