Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-03-10

box, and the water is sucked in to fill the
vacuum. Right here is put in the water
mark. If you don't know what that *.
hold 4 sheet of paper up to the light
You'll probably see straight or zigzag lines
all over it. or the name of some man or
papcr-mil. That is The wltcr-mark. and
it is made on the paper hy Il roller on
which the pattern is cut. Now The pull
having become paper. runs off the @auze
belt on to one of felt. which takes it be-
tween Il pair of heavy rollers The rollers
squeeze it 50 dry that it don't need carry
iny any more. and it GOES on along be-
tween six or eight biz rollers. which are
hot. and which make il smooth and almost
peri city dry. Then it comes cut from the
last roller against sharp knives which are
set there. anI is split into long ribbons lust
wide enough for the kind of ptper it is to
| be-
Now comes another bath. Not to clean
| it for it j. IL white aS snow but to make
| it stiff and glossy. The bath is of grla-
| tine. The paper ribbons run through the
box of %elatinc, and between rollers to
| dry them. On comm. ont they are.
chopped off into sheets by a knife and
| hung on 4 frame 10 dry.
Here they rest for some days. ana it i
the first rest since the rag came ont of
| the gutter and started on its travels
After this HE new sheets 90 into Il Lress
for Il few hours. Some kinds of common
paper stop here. but the nice notc-paper
vou are SO fond of has another Journey be-
fore it, through the hands of Il string of
girls.
The first Girl feeds the sheets of paper
to Il string of rollers. which makes them
beautifully smooth and shining. The see
tnd "irl piles them up and hands them to
the thirI Girl. who puts them through a
cuttin"machinr. which process makes
tirm perfectly regular in size The fourth
-irl puts them through tll- rlling-mlchne
That Is u droll machine; only 4 row Of
pens fed hv IN ink-.rourh The fifth Girl
looks at each sheet, ani puts them into
piles. perfect and imperfect. Thr sixth
-irl t"ld them. It funny enough to see
her snatch up six sheets, double them over
with one hand and pres, them down with
4 block in the other. She never make, a
mistake in the number, and working 50
fa>t. she almost looks like Il machine. The
seventh -irl takes one of the packages of
>iN sheets, pats it under Il >nappng little
hammer that runs hv steam. and in IN in
slant is o!uamrutcl with Tia" little oval or
I12rr m1rN You SEE on comm crcial note
paper. The most elegant papers are not
Stamped here. for every one prefers hi
own initial or mon"gram and thtt is done
t" order II 4 >tltionrr'> The cyh h girl
puts he packages into rc..ms and half
rrHn~ ANA seals them up.
Now did You ever hear in L flirv story
| of tran-tulmr.inn more wonderful than
from a Disgusting dirty rag tp a dainty
sheet of nulr-pIprr? AMI if thtt sheet
Of paper contains 4 letter from vuur dear
r>t friend. W"Vlln't yor rlt it among
Your trrt~urc>? Bat want to tell v"u
another thing. DO YOU know what lro.l
things Wcr" used to write en before paper
mills wrr,- invrEtr l. or cotton la.> thought
of The iiI>, writing was on II II stones
the words cut in. | don't think mlny
letters were, written in those DAYS Afer
| that tn. skins OF auimtl- wrr,. u~rl-
dressed and pr,pirc.l oi course. But that
rrcW inconytnirut in time. ana then leaves
We're used. luu think that i funny. per
lap>: bUt some people u~r leaves /" this
| day. The Chinese 10, AMI the lIindoo>
U~c dried leaves. like our palm leaf fans.
W til III" letters prickcl in. Bat the first
thnr uptic L. write on WAS pupru-. Pap
ru~ j. a wlirr-p plan, and was prepared for
Use ly soaking the stem until ii would
unr"l in layers. These thin lnver> being
jrici, WoI" pasted over each o.hcr and
the y hole ~mo":hcl with polishing stone.
hat made a very 700 paper for the first
tttrnl I. ami -HNc IL Il name for or clr-
glut ~ui cT-~np.r. 'clra:n-liid.' etc.
which some OF us tn"t vuu nur u Waste
drcadiully.