The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-08-02

"i'hae", sir III never DO # any more"
S"h''"d IittI" jnIu< very h'lmhIy. for h.
was terribly scared. And if youth
pleas" let m" go I'll go right home and
never nt"'k pins in any more Butter
Hlc>.'
NO. do not think you Will" roarrd
the butterfly in voice that made Julius
tr"lnhlr all over: II do not think YOU
will stick pms in any NOR. butterflies;
but that Is not saying that the butter
flies will not stick pins ia yuu.'
ION. please" ! wont do it any more
>obbrd julius. thoroughly frightened
'lnh''d won't. | want to 20 home to
my mammals
"NrlI. y"u cannot 70 home nnw,' said
IN" big butterfly. "Anh that is all there.
is about It, w" are the butterfly I"I,r
whose duty it is to Sliar'l this l,ar;,lic
and protect til" lives and property Of
th" butterfly kings subjects, and We
hay" caught sou in his very 'l",nininns
trying TO murder bis own daughter. Yes.
that's it murder. bloody, wicked muir
der. And do YOU think that we 60
ins t" let You go home? NJ. indeed.
You will <" t" Jail until til" kin, h"
'l'lrS what to do with ynl,'
julius cried and hrg="d but ia" tw"
m"nstr''I> butterflies would not lI.tcn to
UNI az ''II. ne tuTufI ana beESfu NE
butterfly princess. Who still sat TN
harmed on til" tulip. to make tn" police
men let hIn 20. but she turned her bA, X
on him and would not answer him a;
word
Then tn" tw" giant butterflies crnsJrrl
him. ON" each side, by tn" arms. and
flew away with him Through tn. air rs
easily a. though II" had be, II no heavier
than 4 SnH1. carry in-. tnn his net to
1,,,,I <,,
Of his wickcdncSS
What cam" Of it All l cannot tell you
till next week. Nelson Ayrrs in New
Orleans Picayunr
How Beat, Are Made.
Half Il dozen years ago many fat
dame rod" out in her carriage with
thousands of black and white beads
'o"Ir,d and tn"s"I"'l upon her dress
'Ih"r" W"r" pendants Of beads on her
hat: beads ,lnngI,I from her lrlrasnl
and her shopping bag tinvl"l with beads
Children in school wore them rs orna-
mrnt>- necklaces. bracelets and rings Of
i score Of different rrInr>
Today their ust u the nitcI States
has largely gone out of fashion, except
within certain narrow a,~9>, and the
| manufacture of Them still 4 great in
dustry, depends for uS SUPPORT mainly
upon South America, - "a and the
islands Of tn" sea-. IN those countries
beads hay" hr"n worn for hundreds OF
years, and fashion has little influence
| upon their use. Indeed. If explorers are
to be believed, many black savage is
clad in Il necklace of beads and very
| little else.
Chinese are the oldest bead makers i
| the world. They hay" made beads Sc
| mention Il time when the industry was
! not ancient And the Chinese to-day dc
! tho work just as their forcfatherS did
and tn" styles arc exactly the same.
After the Chinese 10 peopl. arc 81
expert as the Nrnetians. At present
there are more than 1000 vnrkmcn il
tn" island of Nlurano alone who ar" en-
gagged in bead making. The few manu-
facturrrS in other parts Of the worl'
have all learned the secret Of the Graf
| in Venice.
For bead making there must he &
| rope walk connected with the gIas:
factory. \ rope walk is narrow
! straight gallery about 100 feet long. an
so situated that the middle is not fal
| from the furnaces in which the glass is
melted. Th" first process is the making
Of ordinary tubes like those used in al
most every drug store. Two Drawn!
workm"n, with bare, brown arms. SEIZE
Il huge wedge of tho "metal. as til,
molten glass is called. between thri1
| blow ri pcs. and after it has been blown
| hollow they gradually stretch it out into
4 long. swinging rope.
| " hen It has h""n Ir'lur,i to the proper
<iz" for the beads about IT, h" made. II
| l. Land away TO cool, tier which y work
man comes along and in IL wonderful;
| def tritr
| uniform >izr. often for :lnall l' al:
th">" are not much larger than grain o
! wheat. hnt carefully rs the work dom
| that the little cylinders are rarely cracks I
or spoiled
Th" pieces are now picked up Ivy hoys
and place in d tub with sand AMI a>hr:
and stirred up carefully. In this way tn,
| holes in the embryo beads are stuffed full
thus preventing the danger Of the side:
tlattennS together when heat is applied
| They are next placed in a skillet jus
| such Il one as the housewife uses in fry
| ing cgg>-and stirred over a very hot fir,
until the ragged edges where the pie" q
N"rr broken from tn" tuhr arc round 4
giving tn" bead .lnhu|ar form. As 500
- they are cool the ashes and sand Hr'
| shaken ont If them in Il sieve :;:Il th"1
they are separated according /" >iz" b;
other sleeves. They nr" taken next to
long tahl" around which Il Wll"l" flock g
| boys and girls ar. sitting. If the glass j.
'"l"r''l, AZ, it often is, tho piles of bead
| Oh tn" table suggest a rllnhDW. Wlth ever,
hue, from jet black. through red. sl,, Ii
yellow AMI blue VI, to WHITE.
| Each child has 4 needle and thread
| md Ivy long pr,rtice the beads a." place,
on strings With almost incniI:e,vlh'
,WiftnrSs. And the children keep an tx
act count, too 20 that tn" manufacture
knows just how many beads n" is send
ing out. The threads arc tied into bun
Hes and shipped t" almost every por
where Il vessel toucheS.-ChicaSo Record