The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-03-30
The Blue.Glass Mania.

Public attention just now, says the World
is largely drawn to the wonderful curativ,
properties of blue-gass. The newspaper
discuss it, men talk Of it in their places o
business and on the public thoroughfares
while in the home circle it forms the staple
topic for conversation. For the time being
it throws Hayes and the disputed title into
the background and rivals the telephone
General Pleasonton has come to be regard
ed as great beneIactor, and his discovery
as heaven sent inspiration. But now
comes the Nebraska Eagle and cruelty
| plucks from the brow of the blue glass
General the laurels supposed to have been
won in the field of scientific research
The Eagle talks right out as follows:
Some old codger down East was nearly
blind, and his wife was in the same fix
They wore blue.glass goggles. The
thought occurred to them that to have their
windows made of blue-glass would answer
the same purpose. The transparent glass
was taken out and blue-glass put in its
stead. The old couple recovered their
sight as of yore, This was the root,
foundation and starting point of 1.-THE
Blue-Glass Tidal Wave.n From the first
the wave was hot. 1t is now spreading
like the epizootc. 1t has already gotten
up to such II burning heat in the East that
it Is spoken of as mania. The wave is
likely to strike this part of the country at
any moment. Itwould be well for all those
that are in poor health to diet and prepare
themselves to take it like our forefathers
and mothers used to prepare for the small
pox before the days of vaccination. Not
withstanding the contagious character of
blue'glass, it is recommended for every
disease the human race is heir to. 1t is
SAID that blue-glass windows in the bed
room OF an old bachelor or maid has
quoting effect upon their nerves and they
have been known to get married under the
influence of blue-gass, at the age of fifty.
little blue-glass pounded up and mixed
with the dinner OF a restless, long, lean,
lank, yaller, stray dorg' will safely land
his bark on that other shore where the
weary are at rest. Eight to in favor of
Hazy Blue. Glass; Z to in favor of dry
ing Joe Bradley into the ground four feet,
and then breaking him off with chunk
of blue-glass.
The Detroit Free Press, a paper univer-
sally quoted, and not to be tempted to
falsehood by the price of dozen little
hatchets, tells how blueglass is hammer
ing at the ailments out in that section.
knowledge of the following case will suf-
flee to raise the market price of the Ger
ulean manufacture:
"The lady of the house, who has for
years been such an invalid that she could
not make over four or five calls in an af,
ternoon, was in two weeks so restored to
health that she was able to leave home in
the morning and remain away all day,
leaving her children te get their meals
among the neighbors and her husband to
lunch down town. Before she began talk
ing sun-baths she was melancholy and de-
spondent, and didn't care for fine things
In one week from the time the first blue
glass lights were in she planned a trip to
Florida, run her husband in debt for set
of cameo jewelry set in pearls, and had
hard crying spell because she couldn't have
a new velvet dress. She was formerly so
weak and languid that she could not shake
down the coal.stove. Tuesday morning
she not only shook down the stove but all
the stove-pipe, and when her husband
jumped out doors to call the neighbors he
looked as if she had shaken him around
too. Her appetite has wonderfully i'm
proved under the strange cure, and now
she can eat most anything which her hus-
band will come home and cook. For three
long years she was always complaining of
headache. The complaint has entirely
vanished, and she continually scolds about
the corns on her toes, thus giving her hus-
band grateful change. One of the pleas
ATTEST sights on that street these sunny
day is to see this lady behind the blue
pancs, seated in rocker, her nose to the
pages of Il novel, hair down, eyes half
closed and the blue glass throwing beau
tiful shade over her old wrapper and brok-
en- backel slinnprsr