The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-05-15
SAND GLASS STILL NEEDED.
Used Nowadays in sick Room, Music
Room and Kitchen and on
the Table.

pauu BlaSSeS are Iudue IN laTRe VIZ
riety as to the divisions of time they
measure There are hour glasses,
three minute glasses, and SO on; and
these several glasses are used for
many different purposes. The hour
glass is mostly used in the sick room
and in the music room. In the sick
room it is used as a guide in admin
istering medicine. With it there is no
need of watching the clock, no doubt
about when the last dose was given, or
anything of that sort; but when the
sand in the glass has run out the
medicine is given and the glass Is
turned, and so on. In the music room
1t is used for the convenience of the
teacher, and also for the guidance of
the pupil In the first case there is no
occasion for consulting watch or
clock. The hour glass stands there
on the piano, and it is simply turned
and set going at the beginning of the
lesson, to mark the hour with GER
tainty. 1T is used for pupils to prac-
tice by. With an hour glass in plain
view, there is no occasion for running
off to see the time, or for turning to
look at a clock in the same room.
Here, again, started at the beginning
of the lesson, the hour glass marks
the time without any doubt or uncer
tainty, and, though the pupil may be
glad to see the last of the sand run
4b~o,,rxI,r {ha hour sr1occ ie a TINA
keeper that cannot be disputed.
-Half-hour glasses are put to the
same uses as hour glasses, and these
and hour glasses as well are occa-
sionally used by teachers in school or
classrooms.
Fifteen-minute glasses are used to
limited extent for medical purposes;
and marking this division of time, the
sand glass goes into the kitchen as
nm aid to exact cooking. There are
also made ten-minute glasses, of
which few are used for medical pur-
poses, and this glass is also used in
the kitchen. There is a fye-minute
glass which is largely kitchen glass,
used to boil eggs by and for other pur-
poses; and the three-minute sand
glass is called an egg boiler.
Besides the sand glasses used for
these various household or domestic
there are sand glasses used
Tor scientific and other purposes. A I
sand glass is used, for instance, when I
he log is cast from a ship; sand I
glass is attached to machine made c
or indicating and registering the We I
ocity of the wind. this method of
marking of a period of time being in 4
uch uses more convenient than hold !
ng a watch would be.
The hour glasses and the sand glasses ,
4 the other large sizes, while articles >
Il regular sale for the purposes for
which they are used, are scarcely ar v
icles Of common sale. OF these larger "
izes, there are sold in this country z
ONE thousands annually. OF the
mall glasses, such as the egg boilers,
srge numbers are sold The three z
linute glasses would be found for sale II
4 many stores, and at wholesale they \
re common articles of sale by the .;
ross. OF the sand glasses used for
semitic and other purposes. the num- r
er sold is again limited. =
Sand glasses are made in this coun-
". but much the greater number Of
lose sold here are imported from 'o
urope. where they are produced in ar
ermany. France and England. The
nd used In sand glasses is specially
repaired by thorough cleaning. in L.
uding boiling; it is baked dry and z
.rhaps ground into the requisite fine HI
.ss ana uniformity. as sharp sands {