Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-06-07
The Making of RelIs.

Only two metals are now used in large bells,
tin and copper. The Belgians use % to 80 per
cent. or tin; the English lean to more tin, % to
81 per cent. Tin makes the bell sound bright,
but 1t also makes it brittle, and the reason why
the English can afford to put in more of this
PILLS element n Is because they make their bells
made thicker is, that instead Of being merely
ch1med they are swung round on wheel,
which brings the hammer with great force upon
the bell. II we treated the delicate Belgian bells
In this rough fashion we should probably crack
them, though IL 1t were known that they would
be swung, the Belgian makers could doubtless
Belgium to be whacked Ike big drums but to
be struck with hammers from PIP to d, like
piano-forte: They resonate more easily than
their full tone. In word, the Belgian
bell is musical note, not a gong or
a drum: Secondly, the thickness and
the f UTMOST Importance. Bells se vary S'e from
Ills to liz CT the diameter at the thickest part
OF the sound-bow, and the height is commonly
about ~ times the thickness. English bells are,
roughly, as broad as they are long, If you
measure diameter from outside rim to rim, and
length from rim to top OF canon. But In truth,
all-imr ortant. The thickness near the top is as
important as that OF the sound bow, and the
diane ter Of the crown as critical a dimension
as that Of the I'm The deep rich tone in pro-
pIoha bly, largely due to the wide top diameter,
combined with the thinness In certain portions
OF the sides halfway down. The way In which
altering the thickness affects the tone, and
even the pitch OF bell is shown by the fact that
sharp bell can be fiattened by shaving off the
metal inside above the sound-bow; and Mr..
scooping the bell elsewhere until they disap-
pealed at certain point, but that on continuing
10 scoop they reappeared. All this shows how
the art OF belI-rounding in England. In Belgium
It Is not scientific but empirical the accumu-
lated experience OF ages certain tact or rule
CI uiiumb takes the place Of science; rules there
must be, founded on principles, but the masters
cannot explain their secrets. They produce the
work OF art, others are left to discover the laws
they nave obeyed. When we have analysed
their methods, we may be able to make their
cells. so thought the Germans when they
measured and analysed Raphael and Tintoret,
ana produced the correct but lifeless banalitesof
AIRY Schefer; SO thought Vuillaume when he
initiated the very worm holes in the Amatis. hut
for all that the French Riddles are not Anatis.
IL may turn out that In the making OF rich
Is something which cannot be taught-the in
stinct, the incommunicable touch.-fH. n.
Rawets, in Coed Words.
WoMEN's GROWING INDEPENDENCE OF MEN.-
PerEapS." says the Boston Transcript ait is
because ga OF the growing scarcity OF available
nep, perhaps 1t is because OF the increasing in
dependence OF the fair sex-whatever the rea-
son, IL Is fact patent to all who FREQUENT
places OF amusement that ladies venture
more frequently than they did ten years AGO.
and it is greatly to the credit OF our city that
they can DO SO with impunity. A lady would
hardly go out alone OF an evening but ii ac-
ctnpanied by another OF her sex, especially If
ore OF the pair be tolerably along In years-it
Is hct necessary to give exact hgures-both
ieei comparatively safe. The result is that
young men are not quite so much of necessity
as they once were, and are made to feet that
tiey are no longer indispensable. Time was
when young man. simply because he was
man, was permitted to feel that he was q very
important creature, but now that O male eS-
cort can with propriety be dispensed with on
occasion, he has been made to descend from his
high horse. Hewas wont to impose his cheap
horse talk and slang on his lady friends, and
was permitted to parade his c0nceit and 1gno-
rance, simply because he was necessary evil:
but times have changed all that, and he now
often finds that unless he can command re-
specC by his knowledge, his character or his
gentlemanly department, his room Is consid-
cred more desirable than his company. ALI OF
which Is having an excellent effect upon the
average young man OF the period"
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