Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-08-24
Form Hearth and Home.
whites Birthday Present; or, How
Globes made.
BY OLIVER THORNE.


BY OLIVER THoRNE.
Willie had been up ever since five
o'clock, and now it was seven, but |
don't believe he had been two minutes
away from the stand on which stood
his birthday present There it was,
round and smooth. and gaily colored,
turning SO easily, and spinning so long
after slight start
What do you guess it was Not a
top, nor a ball but nice, new globe,
nearly as big as your head, showing all
the countries of the earth
Geography was hard study to Will
lie, and his father thought a globe
might interest and help him; so when
the day came that made Willie ten years
old, he found on his stand this beauti-
full thing.
Hearing some curious sound, Mr..
Dutton looked up from the paper he
was reading, and saw Willie sounding
the globe with his knuckles, balancing
it on his hand, and trying experiments
generally.
What are you doing, Willie?" he
asked.
Pm trying to find out what it's
made of, " said Willie. at don't sound
hollow, and it seems too light to be sol
id, though perhaps it is dry pine
Mr. Dutton smiled. 1T isn't wood
at all, my SON"
why, father what is it them"
" 1t is made of paper"
"Paperl" exclaimed Willie; "then
| should think it would mash up, like
the gllt-paper ball got on the Christ
mas-tree."
''Several years ago, when | was in
England, . said Mr., Dutton, I" l visited
globe-factory, for | had great curiosi-
ty to know how they We're made"
Willie came and sat down by his
father. "Please tell me all about it,"
Mr.. Button took out his watch.
well it is twenty minutes to break
fast perhaps I'll have time to tell you
The first thing to be done in making a
globe, is to make a wooden bali, a little
smaller than the globe is to be. Do
You know how they make balls of
wood 2"
Yes, rather" exclaimed Willie,
eagerly. When 7 was at grandma's |
went to shop, where / saw q. man turn
some big balls to go on a fence"
THAT is exactly the way the globe
balls are turned, and that is what we
may call the mold for the globe"
Willie looked puzzled. but | don't
see how"
'Of course you don't, y said Mr. Dut-
ton that's just what I'm going to tell
You. After the ball is made, they put
IN each end a piece of large wire, on
which it can turn, as your globe turns
on its axis. "
Oh yes interrupted Willie, "and
then they glue the paper upon that
Not exactly" said Mr.. Dutton,
smiling; don't be too fast, This
q he into Il wooden frame, and a boy
sits down by it. At his side is tub of
water, with long, narrow slips of paper
ln IT., and he spreads them one by one
over the globe, until every spot is thor
oughly covered. Then he takes long
strips Of paper with paste on them. and
spreads them over the wet paper, until
It is covered "
But | shouldn't think it would be
smooth.
1t wouldn't be, if he stopped there
'0' he goes on to put another thick
ness of past and then another layer OF
white paper, and SO on, until he has
lA thlcknesses of paper, all thorough
.Fposted together"
/ should think thas was enough pa
par said Willie.
is, for small globes, but if they
IRE to be very large, they must have
several more layers. The next pro
ITO Try the wet pastboard globe,
and that takes two or three weeks.
OF course they leave the wooden
.t4 inside, said Willie, "for they
ta get it ont.
They leave it until il is dry, and
--a man holds the globe against a
TI Enite, gives it a sudden twiri, and
nasteboard globe falls of, in two
.ara-
~ Don't that spoil it "
l3v 10 means il falls off easily be
sSe the first thickness Of paper was
Wet. while all the rest were past
= Ola YES
Now the globe looks like two bowls,
g hole III the bottom Of each,
n Tie wires went through. Then
.taa Takes Il round stick, just long