Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-11-19

country, and it is of much regret to me
that request to return them permits
sion. The women OF our country,
when by circumstances to do agricul-
tural work compelled. do not dress rs
your wonderful country, and would not
consist.
ALSO we do not tiger for draft pur-
poses cultivate, they not being to the
country native, nor in our experience
for such work well suited. I have to
my customers explained with earnest
ness that your picture is a sinnbild
(allegory) and does not mean that
your admirable machine should be OPP
Grated by women too little clothed, nor
is it necessary that the place of horses
shall be animals from the Zoologischer
Garten taken. I cannot use them as
you instruct, and your further advices
a recent report, states that while the
deem such garments with modesty to
your picture shows is the custom III
respectfully await"
Beer For The Brave.
The German troopships for China
are carrying heavy shipments of wine
and beer presented to the soldiers by
private firms of wine merchants and
brewers, thousands of bottles of Ger
man, some of the best brands, and in
Vulnerable bottles and barrels of beer
accompany the military expedition
The Quartermaster's department sent
with the troops 5000 hectolitres of
beer in casks. This beer, not specially
prepared for the tropics, is to supply
the men only as far as the equator.
Beyond that distance beer would hard
ly keep, and for the use farther on it
is carried in bottles, expressly pre-
pared by the process of Pasteuriza-
ton" There were shipped, moreover,
at Government expense, 15,100 bottles
of Rhine and Moselle wines, several
thousand bottles of "schnapps," 10000
bottles of mineral water and $3.50
bottles of claret.
German Doll Manufacture.
The American consul at Coburg, in
toy trade of Thuringia may be traced
back to the middle ages, the doll trade
is much more recent, the first doll
having been manufactured there about
40 or so years ago. The process Of
making dolls is described as COM
plicated. The commonest kind now in
the market is that known as the wax
doll, the trunk being of cheap shifting
stuffed with sawdust, while the legs,
arms and head are usually of papier-
mache, the last having a thin wax
covering. A coarse shirt completes
this simple toy, and yet many hands
are engaged in producing it.
The arms and legs are made by one
set Of workmen cutting them out Of
wood or quartz sand, feldspath ana
kaolin, which are made into a mass by
being put into iron drums, mixed,
ground between flint stones and wet
ted.
The mixture is put into hollow gyp-
sum forms and left there sufficiently
long to allow part of the mass to settle
on the inner surface of the mold and
become firm. The rest is poured out,
and the gypsum forms, which are IN
two parts, are removed, SO that the I'M
finished china heads remain All
roughness is removed from the surface
before they become quite hard and
spaces for the mouth and eyes are cut
out; they are then exposed in ovens
to intense heat for about three days,
when they are painted and placed in
other ovens so that the colors are
burned in. The glass eyes are blown
out of tubes held over a strong gas
flame; they are joined by wire, and if
they are to open and shut a lead
weight is attached to the wire.
The dressing of dolls is also an ex-
tensive industry, manufacturers en-
ploying as many as 200 to 800 hands,
mostly girls. Uniforms have become
common for dolls in recent years, and
representations of well-known charac-
ters, those dressed in khaki being just
now made for the English market.
Thuringian dolls are mostly cheap
and long list Of sizes and prices
given by the Consul shows five differ
ent classes of dolls-wax or mat, wax
model, jointed, kid-body and dressed
and 27 different kinds of these, vary
ing with the size.