Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-10-10
From the New York Evening Post of lst inst
70 Katherine Hayes.

Around and about me, and haunting me still;
hear thy soft loyeoness thy light notes of gadness
Oh what is this spell which thou weldest at pleasure,
That makes the heart throb with wilder pulsation?
Jtcan spring but from sourceou feel what you sing
II.
Pure and clear is thy voice. as the stream from the m6un
And fresh as the breezes that vigor impart,
OF music made eloquent-ssVoce Of the heart.
Sing on, oh, sing on could listen forever
Sweet pupil of Nature, and mistress of Art
What holds widespread domnions?
Thy realm is the feelings, thy throne is the heart.
Bohemian Ware.
The International Magazine for October contains
an article copied from the London Art Journal on
the manufacture of Bohemian glass. Those of our
readers. who have admired this beautiful ware on
the table, the mantel. the etagere will be graft
fed to learn something of the in which it is
produced and the character of the people who make
What is called Bohemian ware, though chiefly
made in Bohemia, is not all produced there, for
of the best is the manufacture of Bavaria whence it
is sent to Bohemia, and thence exported The arti
sans who fabrcate the glass. even in Bohemia, are
Germans. and not Sclaves. They occupy the WOO
ded mountains of Bohemia living in long struggling
villages and are race remarkable for cleanliness
and frugality, not less than for taste for the beau
tiful. German is the language altogether spoken
among them. The glass is blown in small manufac
tories containing single chimney not unlike those
in the pine disricts of New Jersey. To each of the
factories there are generally eight blowers. The
y fuel used is wood, The finishing is performed in
the cottages and this embraces the cutting, polish
ing, and indeed everything but the mixing the glass
and colorng it. The ingredients long supposed to
be different from those employed elsewhere, are as
serted to be the same
1t is not so much for the material, for the Orna
menting, however, that Bohemian glass is celebrated.
This depends the taste and skill of the artizan-
It is curious how high degree of merit is attained
by these Bohemian workmen. They live In humble
cottages, and exercise the utmost frugaity their
ges never exceeding six dollars week, and rarely
rising to that point Yet much genius is frequent
ly displayed by these unpretending artists, as Is
! evinced, in other countries. by men who command
enormous salaries. They will take turned over
| bell vase. as it comes from the satisfactory and
with no tool but their wheel, will cut it, in few
minutes, into ly-shaped fower-indented vase
of the most exquisite design With the same taclll-
ty they will cut on the surface BIRDS animals. or
wreaths. and this without the aid of pattern. In
painting glass they rarely employ more than two
brushes, one small and the other a size larger yet
the scrolls flowers and other traceries out as
| fully a name drawn on a frosty window pane. II
is not an uncommon occurrence for whole famly
to be brought up to paint or draw on glass; and
thus great skill is frequently acquired at age al
most incredible. The gold used is from the finest
ducats, dissolved in strong acid the oil with which
the colors mixed is of turpentine.
Many of the dwellings, in which these beautiful
works of art produced, contain but two rooms
a floor. The fine lady, indeed. would turn up hel
at the domice, not less than the persons of th
artists, who abrcate the beautiful bits of Bohemian
ware, with which it is her delight to adorn her draw
ing room. Yet the mountaneer, with his simple
habits, is perhaps both happier and possessor of
truer artistic soul than herself Amid his NATIVE
hills and forests surrounded by magnificent scenery
breathing an invigorating air, with enough for al
his wants, he passes life free from care pursun!
an art which is a pleasure rather than task. VIVA
condition of life could be more desirable? Many
rirtuoso, in spite of his costly collection, might env
the situation of the Bohemian artizan.