Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-06-27
use their Young children for pillows.

music than the modern piano, and when no young
maiden was regarded Us q fit candidate for the
lltar, who could not exhibit a full supply Of bed
ding spun by her own hands. Some OF our bach
friends are 80 unchatitable as to intimate that
the maidens Of tho presen: day are equally indus
trious in spinning, but that the product is Of an
entirely different character.
In another corner Of our room stands n small
workable, Of cherry (Cerusus Nulgaris), and not
far from it a cabinet wash stand OF black walnut
{Juglands Nigra) both native woods much used for
funiture the first, the heaviest and closest grained
of our northern woods, and noticeable for its fruit
as well as its timber the second, a dark, richly
veiued wood. less dense, but quite as durable as
the cherry, but whose introduction es an orna-
mental wood is Of recent date. In some portions
If the West it is the most abundant Uf the forest
trees.
A small Woodworking stove, of Albany manu-
facture warns the room. To say nothing Of the
other innumerable uses Of iron, its employment in
the manufacture of stoves Is one OF the most re-
markable facts Of the present time. The 907 stove
manufacturers of the country give employment
to about $4,000 hands, and produce stoves to the
annual value of more han twenty millions of dol
lars. The vast business las grown up within
the past forty years. Many Of our citizens well
recollcct the time when they had never seen or
heard of a stove. They, knew indeed, that there
was an article of tiles or bricks used among the
Scandinavian nations, and called by that name;
but the ~castiron abomination, as Sydney Smith
called it, they had no knowledge Of. But times
have changed, and we have changed with them.
Our fathers sat contentedly in the chimney corners
enjoying a fire whose daily consump tion OF wood
would now bankrupt a man of ordinary MEANS
Illustrating in an air whose purity gave roses to
their cheeks and visor to their limbs. We, their
children, sit in close room with stoves filled with
wood or coal, or worse yet, a furnace register MI.
ing the room with a hot, dry ar, which is us tatal
to bloom or vigor as the breath of the siroco the
Inhanrfnl HrpliUht ie ponn and Our children Will
hav We no more idea of the meaning of the good od
Saxon word fresi3e, than would II bard of kal.
muck Tartars. We have gained something in con-
yenience, but we have lost far more in comfort.
A few caneseat chairs and a small study-table
complete the furniture of the room. The table
and the frames Of the chairs are Of the curled and
bird's:eye maple. of which we have already spoken.
The seats are Of the rattan (Ca!amusl, one OF the
great palm family, which, in its different genera
and species, furnishes to the native of the East
Indies food, drink, clothing, furniture, houses, aud
merchandise.
Upon the the table are the implements Of writ
'ing-pens, ink, and paper. The pens. of steel, are
among the inventions of our time. True, we read
in the Scriptures Of n pen of iron, but the pen 81
those days was a bodkin or stylus, used to scratch
upon the leaden or wax.colored tablets the thoughts
of the writer. The reed for writing upon the pap
yrus was the first approach to a true pen, and it
was long ere this gave place to the gray
goose quill, which was the favorite i'm plement of
the ready writer till our own time. The incon'
venienco of being so often obliged to mend this,
led to repeated efforts to make a metallic pen which
should possess its good qualities, and silver, pla-
tinum, zinc, gold, and steel were ali tried in turn,
but at first with Indifferent success. 1t was not
till after years o. experiment, that gold sud steel
pens were brought to their present perfection.-
They have now, however, almost entirely super
seeded the quill. 1t is a fact not generally known,
that though the annual production counts by thou
sands Of millions, yet the manufacture is IN the
hands of a very few firms, not exceeding ten IN
all, in Europe and America. OF these there are
two in France, only one, we believe, in this conn
try, and the remainder in ENGLAND. Of these MIR.
elliott has the highest reputation, from the excel
lent material and superior finish of his pens,
Other manufacturers, however, have equaled him
in some styles.
Ink is an article in which there has been less Of
t recent improvement. Its basis, if CT good quality
should be n~ut-galls IAN excrescence of the Quercu'
Tinctoria. q Syrian species of oak, and iron, II
. some form-usually the ~sulphate. Large quaint
ties Of ink are thrown upon the market whose veg
: etable base is logwood, but these are unfit for an,
kind of writing in which permanency Of color i
an object, as they change to the hue of rusty iroi
/ in a few months. The writing fluids now i'll vogu,
+ are only carefully prepared inks, having tn
~nut.galls for q basis, and freed from sediment b,
!. filtration.
Paper has, within the last few years, been great
Il ly improved. Its invention, though not so remot
"a do that u inuiy blilCi ItlSiC u iOucOLOAu uSt
yet dates back with the Chinese, who seem to hav
e originated rag-paper, to 200 b. C. 1t was not il
trsi uced into Europe until the sixth or sevent
century, when the Saracens brought it into Spain
II Prior to this, plates Of copper and lead, tablets Of
wax, parchment, and vellum, prepared from tn
skins Of sheep and calves, papyrus, the investing
membrane of a dubious blant in Egypt, the inne
bark Of trees, had been used for writing.
II The amount of paper required during the mic
= die ages was small, as the monks, and most other
who could write preferred parchment; but after tn
introduction Of the art of printing, the deman
was greatly increased, and France and Italy prt
Llo duced large quantities, and Of Il fair quality. Gel
NC many, for four or five centuries, manufactured
VI tough, whitey-bTown paper. whose best qualit
was its cheapness. The first paper.mill was e
W established in Great Britain in 1896, but for som
reason it did not prosper, and up to the middle
4 \ the last century little except wrapping-paper va
W. manufactured there.
ne In 1910, Mr.. j. Whitman, whose paper is no
VI famous the world over, commenced the busiue,
u ~ !. of paper-making, and soon introduced such in
~ p%rovements as gave his paper a high reputation
- His success gave an impulse to the manufactur
: and in heavy writing papers of superior quail
and surface, the English mills are unsurpasse
pie In the lighter qualities, suitable for Oriental corr
spondence, as well as the cheaper grades, ii
ire French bear away the palm, The quality of pap
ms manufactured in this country has been very mu,
IRE improved within the past ten years. Some of o
best mills approach very nearly TO the Englls
lrt The invention Of machines for making pape:
It'll continuous sheets, and for drying, pressing, STAN
elr ing, ruling and cutting it into the required siz,
has greatly increased the power of production, a
ess competition has done much toward improving t
air quality. Printing papers have also greatly j
is proved, both in color and finish, and very Fl
rse readers would now tolerate a book printed on par
rly which fifteen years ago would have been consider
rds quite fair. One result of this, combined with
and rapid advance in wood. engraving, has been to
lgh crease the number Of illustrated books, and as,
the superior paper, tho Illustrations could be pri
hin ed with the type, wood engravings of exouis
the beauty can be furnished so low, that the price
HER the illustrated book is but little more than of {
without engravings. Here again NC see Art
The ertlng its refining power upon the masses.
The mantle of our sick room exhibits a form
able array of walls, boxes, and bottles of medicin
nge but were we to venture in search of their hislo
for our readers would, we fear, become too weary,
bed we will cen throw ply sic to the dogs" and c
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