The suburban citizen., 1900-05-19
rAE sANp oLAss sTILL NEEDED.
Used Nowadays In SIckroom, Music Room
aud Kitchen and on the Table.

Used NOW adAyA IN clckFuout Music hOuAA
and Kitchen and on the Table.
Sand glasses are made in large
variety 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 sickroom
and in the music room. In the sick
room tits used as a guide in admins
tering medicine. With it there is no
need of watching the clock, no doubt
about when the last dose was given,
Dr. anything OF that sort, but when the
sand in the glass has run out the
mediciue is given and the glass is
turned, and so on. In the music room
it 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 cer-
tainty. 1t is used for pupils to prac-
tise 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 uncertainty,
and, though the pupil may be glad to
see the last of the sand run through,
the hour glass is timekeeper that
cannot be disputed.
Half.hour glasses are put 20 the
same uses as hour glasses, and these
and hour glasses as we'll ara occa-
sionally used by the teachers in school
or classrooms.
Fifteen minute glasses are used to q
limited extent for medical purposes
and, marking this division of time,
the sand glass goes into the kitchen
as an aid to exact cooking There are
also made ten minute glasses, of which
a few are used for medical purposes,
and this glass is also used in the
kitchen. There is five-minute glass
which is largely kitchen glass, used
to boil eggs by and for other purposes
and the three-minute sand glass II
called an egg boiler.
Besides the sand glasses used To-
these various household or domestic
purposes, there are sand glasses useC
for scientific and other purposes.
sand glass is used, for instance, whel
the log is cast from a ship; sand glas
is attached to a machine made for in
dicating and registering the velocity
of the wind, this method of marking
off period OF time being in such use
more convenience than holding watcl
would be.
The hour glasses and the glasses o
the other larger sizes, while article
of regular sale for the purposes TO
which they are used, are scarcely arti
cles Of common sale. OF these large
sizes, there are sold in this countr
some thousands annually. OF tn
small glasses, such as the egg boilers
large numbers are sold. The three
minute glasses would be found for sal
in many stores and at wholesale the
are common articles of sale by th
gross. OF the sand glasses, used fc
scientific and other purposes, the nun
Der sold is again limited,
The Cause Of His Anxiety.
While Archbishop Trench was Dea
of Westminster he delegated Cano
CuretonAo preach at the Abbey on
certain saints day, says Pearson's
On such days the boys of Westmir
ster School atten led service, and afte
service had the rest of the day as
, holiday. While Mr.. Cureton, on tn
morning Of the day he was to oificiate
!. was looking over his sermon at th
T. breakfast table, his son asked in
+. tone vibrating with anxiety:
Z Father, is yours long sermon t
e day?"
"No, Jimmy, not very"
! "But how long? Please tell me"
. "Well, about twenty minutes,
y should say. But why are you so AM
: 'oua IN know9b