Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-03-02
Blue Glass.
Y Y Times

A little sign made of the appro-
pirate material has just been display
ell in Park place on which are the
appropriate words, "Blue Glass" >
"We are selling 1000 per cent. more
of this glass than we used to-" said a
gentleman inside the store. "Every-
body wants it, and we have been
obliged to retail it as an accommo-
dation. Presidents of colleges send
for it, the managers Of charitable IN
stitutions send for it, and ladies send
and get it. Sometimes they come
themselves. They tell us how large
the panes in their windows are, and
we sell them the glass cut to the
proper size. Some have their whole
windows reglazed with it, and 9TH
ers buy one or two panes and tack
them in over the other glass"
"Are you convert, slr?"
"Oh, yes, we have great confidence
IN the curative powers of this glass.
1t is made only in France. The cobalt
is put in the melt and gives the ma
zarine blue, but it will be initiated
here if this demand for it continues.
We hardly know how much to i'm
port because if this proves to be a
mere fancy for day we should be
lett with a stock of unstable ware
on our hands,"
An old gentleman came into the
store IN hesitating manner and
with a weak smile all over his face,
"Have you any of this 'ere blue
glass?" he asked. ave have, sir"
replied salesman. eyes; we'll
want to get some for some other peo-
pie. don't suppose it's good for
anything, is it," He was assured
that the very best physicians and
Presidents of colleges were sending
their orders. "Well," he said, reas
sured in his manner, "my brothers
wife wanted to try it, and l thought
I'd put some in my bedroom win
dow" Here he broke again into his
apologetic smile. He carried away
two ten.by-twelve panes.
"One OF the finest ladies in the
city," continued the salesman, after
the customer had retired, "who lives
i'll splendid brown-st, ne front OF
Fifty-seventh street, is going to hay,
one of her parlor windows entirel,
glazed with blue glass for the behe
fit OF her birds, plants and fishes, il
which she takes special delight"
"What kind Of ailments do peol !,
usually say they have when the,
come here to buy blue glass;"
Neuralgia, headache, rheumatism
and other similar complaints. L
quiets the nerves."
suppose man should wear blue
glass in the crown of his hat?'
"Then he would never haye dei~
ln,n tremenS."
"Thank you"
81 meant no offense" with blush)
"Where does Gen. Pleasonton bu,
his glass;"
~ don't know. He doesn't buy
it here. but it's all the same in kind
The fact is the effect appears to b'
wrought by the color, however pro
duced. Blue curtains have very
quietlng effect on the nerves of ex
citable patients. Suppose the sky
was all scarlet"
Inquiries made at other stores con
firmed the story of this enormous in
crease in the sale of blue glass
Singular enough this invention ap
pears, unlike that of the steam-engin,
and the ocean telegraph, to never
have been anticipated by the poets
Tennyson came very near it. H,
says, in mariana in the Moatec
Grange" "The blue-fy Sang i th,
pane" If only the exigencies o
metre had led the poet Laureate. t.
write. "The flv sang i the blue pane,
it would have been n marvel Of poet
prophecy, and he could still have re
tanned the 81 the"
l. The man whO 10 s1s,,t r,,,t r,f III,