The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-11
CURIOSITIES IN GLASS.
Made of Threads Spuns AS Delicate
and Airy as the Finest Gauze.


From Harper's Bazaar.
When the story of Cinderella was first
translated into our language and the Slip
pers of Vair, or fur, became slippers Of
verre, or glass, the translator would have
been amazed to know that slippers Of
glass were not fairy impossibility. But
it is not great while since in this coun-
try a patent was taken out upon glass
slippers. That Is really not extraordi-
nary, since, in fact, the uses to which
glass Is now put are almost innumerable
There was exhibited some years ago, a
bonnet made of glass, with all its trim
mings and furbelows, the flowers as nat
ural as life, the ribbons with the luster
of satin; and since then an actress added
to her wardrobe the splendors of a dress
woven all of spun glass. The glass thread
is drawn out to a fineness that makes II
perfectly pliable and elastic, 1t has no
liability of breaking and il can be almost
as delicate and as airy as the finest gauze,
and can be given any color. How magnih-
cent might not a dress be, woven Of
iridescent glass, the wearer fairly wreath
ed and garmented in cloud of luminous
rainbows! 1t Is not likely, however, that
this fabulously splendid material will ever
be so cheap that such dresses would be
common enough to go out of fashion. But
the Imagination fails I'm the endeavor to
conture before At anything more resplen-
dent no empress or oriental beauty in
history or romance, no goddesses visiting
mankind, not Juno In her immemorial
toilet was ever clad I'm anything 50 shin
ing, and so gorgeous as that dress of spun
glass might be, with all its play OF light
and color.
Ii Is IN curious contrast 10 this that an
other object has been made OF glass-a
cofln, whose inventor claims for Il indie
structibnlty. OF course. II Is comparative
~ indestructible, but when we see the
glass tear bottles IN any collection Of
antiques. where decay has disintegrated
the once pure white transparent glass
and rendered Il a mass OF splendid color
one can imagine the homogeneous appear
ance of that article after some dozen CEN
turtles, holding its dead wrapped now IN a
sheet of flame. and now as II In the sap
phire OF the heart OF the sky. IL Is not
likely that glass collins will ever be large
ly In demand; but II the satln-smooth and
shining ribbons should ever be easily had,
and the lustrous flowers and the spun
glass web, how eagerly the young and gay
would make them their ownl To be sure
they might be regarded as rather dazzling
and they might be used only for occasions
OF extraordinary splendor; but Il might
be a comfort 20 those who look FOR mag
nlAcence and shall have exhausted the
beauties OF silk and satin, samlte and
cloth Of gold, to know that they have al
ways so slightly "A material 20 fall back
upon for scene effects.
Meanwhile. the more modest Of us may
content ourselves with the limitations Of
gems. wonderful and not to be detected
that are now made OF glass and with
strings OF the lovely Venetian beads where
a glass bubble coated within by n solution
OF certain FISH scales has the manv-tintcd
softncss Of the pearl, and all OF its beauty,