The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-02-27
Blue Glass.
From the New York TimeA

From the New York Tines
A little sign made of the appropriate
material has Just been displayed IN
Park place on which are the appropri-
ate words, "Blus Glass" I'VE are
selling 1 200 per cent. more of this
glass than we used to-" said Q gentle
man inside the store. Everybody
wants it, and we have been obliged to
retail il as an accommodation. Presi-
dents of colleges send for it, the mana
gers of charitable institutions send for
Il, and ladies send and get it Some.
times they come themselves. They tell
us how large the panes in their win
dows are, and We sell them the glass
cut to the proper size. Some have
their whole windows rcglazed with IL
and others buy one or two panes and
tack in over the other glass."
"Are you . convert, sir?'
"Oh, yes, We have great conhdencs
in the curative powers OF this glass-
It's made only in France. The cobal,
is put in the melt and gives the Mara
rine blue, but it will be initiated her
il this demand for il continues. We
hardly know how much TO import, be-
cause il this proves TO be O mere fancy
for a day we should be left with stock
Of uusalable ware on our hands"
An old gentleman came into the
store in q hesitating manner and with
a weak smile all over his face. Have
You any of this ere blue glassr" he
asked. "We have. sir" replied sales
man. "Yes; we'll want to get some
| for some other people. don't sup
pose it's good for anything, is 1t p BE
was assured that the very best physi-
clans aud presidents of colleges were
sending in their orders. "Well," he
said. treasured in his manner, "my
brothers wife wanted to try 1t, and
thought I'd put some in my bedroom
window" Here he broke again into
his apologetic smile. he carried ava.
| two ten-by-twelve panes.
Zone of the finest ladies in the city,
continued the salesman, after the Gus
toner had retired, "who lives In &
splendid brown-stone front on Fifty
seventh street, is going to have one Of
her psrlor windows entirely glazed
with blue glass for the beneht OF her
birds, plants, and fishes, in which she
takes special delight"
"What kind Of ailments do peopl'
usually say they have when they como
here to buy blue CLASSY"
Neuralgia, headache, rheumatism
and other similar complaints. II cures
all nervous complaints. 1t quiets thu
nerves" :,
"Suppose q man should wear blu'
plass in the crown of his hatf"
"Then he would never have deliriuu
tremens.
Thank you."
"I meant no offense" with blush)
"where docs Gen. Pleasanton &c
his glass?"
IT don't know. He doesn't buy !
here, but it's all the same in kind. Tn
fact is the effect appears TO be wrongh
by the color, however produced. Blu
curtains have 3 very quieting effect o
the nervee of excitable pstients. Sur
pose the sky was all scarlet J.
Inquiries made at other stores COL
! firmed the story of this enormous IN
crease in the sale of blue glass. Sir
eulariy enough this invention appear
unlike that OF the steam engine, IN
the ocean telegraph, never 10 have bee
anticipated by the poets. Tennyso
came very near il. He says. in Mar
ana in the Moated Grange" ''The blu
fly sang j. the pane" If only the e,
igencies Of metre had led the Pot
Laureate to write, ''The fly sang i th
blue pane" it would have been a maj
vel OF poetic prophecy, and he coul
still have retained the "f the.