The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1897-05-06
MAGAZINE ARTICLES.
Method of Classifying and Binding At
cording to Subjects.


cording to Subjects.
Leaving out Of account three or
four of the foremost magazines, it
will rarely harpen that more than
two on three articles in a single
number of any of our current peri
odicals will appeal to any one man
as worth saving. On the other hand,
1t will be rare that months issue
will appear in which something else
does not present itself as valuable
for future reference and desirable to
save. In my own case have found
great deal which / really must
keep, and how to do so to the best
advantage was the problem. For
my solution of it / can claim no
originality, since it is nothing more
than the tearing of the magazine to
pieces and binding the separated
volumes, each containing what re-
lates to more or less limited sub
ject-not too limited, unless you are
willing to wait long time to COM
plete a volume. My experience in
doing this, however, may be of prac-
teal service to others who have a
mind to try the same experiment,
l find that it is an easy matter to
rip off the advertising pages from
magazine by grasping the whole
mass of them in the right hand,
holding the remainder of the vol
ume firmly with the left, when a
sharp jerk will bring away the ad-
vertisements without tearing and
at the same time will straighten out
the wire stitching that binds the
volume. The separation and remov-
al of the remainder of the maya
zine, signature by signature, are aft
er that a very simple matter, re-
curing only manual care and the
aid of paper knife. This usually
becomes the employment of an 9TH
erwise idle evening, when a dozen
or even 20 magazines can be dis
posed of without overtaxing ones
time or patience. The rejection of
the principal part of the undesirable
material goes on as you pull each
number to pieces, and your waste
basket will fill up rapidly. A second
culling will take place later.
Each article as it is separated
from the mass should be marked
preferably with lead pencil-with
the name of the periodical from
which it has been taken and it's
date and should be pinned to pre-
vent its leaves from going astray.
Frontispieces often go with an illus
trated article and should be attach
ed to it at this stage, when also ex-
ira illustrations may be placed next
it or between its leaves, if they are
at hand. When 100 or so magazines
have been thus treated, an evening
may be devoted to going over the
pile of articles saved, sorting it out
into classes and preparing the vol
umes for the binder by arranging
the matter in the order in which
you wish it bound, removing the
pins and placing the pages in an
even and careful pile to the amount
of each volume.
This careful assemblage of the
sheets is important for two reasons.
1t gives the binder less to do and
thus decreases his charge for work,
and it insures your getting the ex-
act results you wish. l have found
that can put from SO to rs articles
into single volume. The more mi
mute ones classification the longer,
Of course, he will DO in acquiring
the necessary number of articles to
make each book perhaps two
years. Such a volume is not unduly
heavy, and the average bookbinder
can be persuaded to cover it in a
neat and serviceable manner for rs
cents. My own idea is that the bind
ing OF the whole series should be
uniform, but this is o matter of
taste, and some persons may prefer
to make only uniform those vol
umes which follow one another up
on the same subject. 1t will often
happen-though not so frequently
as would seem probable-that two
articles upon different subjects and
to go into different volumes may be
printed SO that the last page of one
is upon the back of the leaf of the
first page of the next. In this case,
OF course, one is obliged to sacrifice
one or the other of these pages, but
these cases do not occur often enough
to cause serious annoyance.-New
York Post.
Some Old Timers.