St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-07-21
ARTISTIC GLAsSeLOWiNo.
Flowers and Other Dsslgns Wrought BY
Little Colony In New York City.

E1OWeFs and Other Designs Wrought BY q
Little Colony In New York City.
There is settled now upon the edge
Of the German quarter little colony
of artistic and scientific glassblowers
from Thuringia. The colonists say that
they are the first and only persons to
undertake in the United States exactly
such work as they are doing. and, at
any rate, there is no such odd little
workshop as theirs anywhere else in
New York. 1t il made up Of tiny
Office and showroom. with . street
ward show window, and a somewhat
larger workroom separated from the
Office by white hanging that bears
the inscription mo Admittance." Be
hind this screen of white is carried on
the art and mystery of artistic glass
blowing as practiced in far Thuringia.
The head OF the colony and proprie-
looking German, with spectacles, an
agreeable smile. q very hollow chest,
and pit to his stomach that suggests
an over worked midriff. His immediate
assistant is q travelled young man.
voluable in several languages, and
this young man is the medium Of COM
munication with the English-sP Pea<ing
world, since the proprietor has no En-.
glish Of his own. The proprietor and
the voluble you man are the glass
blowers, and their aids are two or
three aproned young girls. who deftly
handle the polished long shafts that
form the raw material of the art, but
do not unde rstand the more delicate
portion Of the work. ''Of course we
don't teach these girls glassblowing," "
says the voluable young man.
The show window of this little fac
tory displays . curious variety of works
in glass. There are delicately wrought
vases in many colors. thermometer
tubes. surgical appliances; little
double-bulbed glasses, with water in
the lower bulb and glass fish in the
upper, the whole, when a warm hand
is applied to the lower bulb, becoming
. fountain in which the fish dance;
comic thermometers that profess to
record the effect upon the human blood
Of love, hate, anger, and other passions:
tiny ornamental shades for electric
lights. and, chief of all, 'glas-blumen. "
rs the Germans call those oddly.
wrought flowers Of glass.
The glass flowers are the pride and
speciality of the proprietor. He was
one of the earliest men in Germany tc
make them, says his voluble assistant.
and they are really marvellous products
of the glassblowcr's art. There are
roses red. white and yellow, with
soft and pliant-looking petals. curious.
ly like the genuine rose. There are
sprays of lily of the valley. plant in
which the Germans specially delight.
moss-rose buds, for-get-me-nots, and
all of fifty other flowers that one may
name. The German proprietor is the
designer of the company. but the volu.
BILE young man says airily that often a
skilled glassblower like himself just
seizes upon the inspiration Of the mo-
ment as he sits glass in hand over his
gas jet, and works out marvellou.
creations without the aid OF any visi.
BILE design. The 7glassblowers use or.
binary illuminating gas, to which they
communicate extra pressure by a sim.
pie device. They work with astonish.
ing rapidity and nicety.-N. Y. Sun.