Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-02-21
CIT rs IN TO STAY"

''Hurrah for Uncle Joseph!" shouted
Edward and Edwards brother and sister,
Arthur and Annie, echoed the sentiment.
According to promise, Uncle Joseph
had called to take his nephews and niece
to see the pottery works, not far from
the place in which they had all taken up
summer quarters, Uncle Joseph at the
hotel and his relatives at comfortable
cottage near by.
1t was a fine bright day and not uncom-
a half to the pottery was enjoyed by the
whole party. So was the visit itself and
the walk home, the latter made lively by
a discussion of the many interesting
sights which had been witnessed.
The young folks had each brought away
with them a souvenir of their visit in the
shape of very ordinary-looking drinking
cup, decorated in blue and brown colors.
These tokens they esteemed not for their
value in money, but because they had
witnessed the manufacture of hundreds
like them. They had seen between thirty
and forty girls sitting before as many fiat
plates, which, by the aid of machinery,
were kept spinning round at very rapid
rate. Again and again, as occasion re-
quired, Il workman placed a small lump
of clay upon each of these plates, when
the operators, with deft fingers, would
work them into shape and fashion out q
cup. The form secured, the operator
blue or brown coloring matter as desired
AMI, with light touch on the whirling
vessel, make the rings upon its surface
Each ring was but the work of a SECOND
or so. The coloring finished, an attend
ant workman removed the cups from the
fast-spinning wheels or plates, a further
supply of clay was placed upon them
and the process was repeated.
The young visitors were exceedingl,
anxious to learn how the ware was hard
ened and glazed and the proprietor o
the place very cheerfully showed then
the whole process. These soft cups wer
carried to an oven, which had been raiset
to high temperature. Here they wer
baked with as much caution as GOO
cook pays to a Thanksgiving turkey or
batch of homemade bread, lest the
should harden too speedily. From thi
oven the cups were removed to a secon
and hotter one, and from the second owe
they were transferred to third whic
was still hotter. In the burning heat @
this last oven they acquired the brigh
gloss or glaze so familiar to all of us O
} the surface of brown stoneware and pot
terry generally.
s'There, SIR" said the proprietor t
Arthur, as he showed him one of the cup
l that had not yet had time to cool off afte
it's fiery ordeal, ''easily as that colo
2 was applied, neither you nor / can by an
7 means get it out. 1t is in to stay. Yo
may break the vessel to pieces, but til
: color remains firm and fast"
e The young folks examined many of I'll
I, broken pieces of pottery and found tn;
f indeed the color was permanently burne
: in. They were assured that neither aci
+ nor alkali would effect change. The
r was no agency, however powerful, TIL
could do it.
Much interested, and not little edifie
Uncle Joseph and his small party left Il
e factory and started for home. The jou
= uey seemed far too short, SO pleasant W
> the conversation as each spoke of t
t. object that had been to them the chi
ic ATTRACTION.
p They were almost home when UnC
!, Joseph said: ''There is one thing, thin
10 / shall never forget in connection wi
our visit. | refer to the words of t
proprietor, who made us SO WELDON
X 1T is in to stay he said, and Annie, I
lie ward and ARTHUR, l think our please
n mornings trip may be of lasting use to l
- if we remember these words and the Il
ie son they suggest. It is almost as easy
re think, to color our character with
X habit as it was to the operators to col
q those cups. While you are young y
will find that your impressions for go
or bad are more easily made than is t
case with those who are older. You
as now like the soft clay. Your after-l
10 in the world, with its varied scenes, V
nv prove like the three furnaces, maxi
De permanent the coloring of youth. Ma
of a young person who in youth has gi,
re way to some foolish, and, indeed, sin
:, habit, with the idea that it could be
ny quickly thrown aside, has in after We
at discovered that it was in to stay