The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-23
COSTLY MATTRESSES.


mattress as any is one that is made
not to sleep on at all, but to spread
on the long, broad table or platform
of the wagons built for carrying plate
glass.
These mattresses, which are m ade
of curled hair, are very thin, scarcely
thicker than a comfortable, and must
be made with the greatest care to in
sure perfect uniformity of thickness.
A lump anywhere would be likely to
break the plate glass resting upon it,
and there would be still greater dan
ger if the weight of two plates of
glass was rested on the lump at once.
A mattress for plate glass wagon
costs, according to size, from 500 to
SIS. In use the corners of smaller
plates carried on it cut into the tick
ing covering, and sooner or later it
has to be made over. Simply to
make over such a mattress costs from
$40 to $25.
On the table topped and mattress
covered glass wagons the biggest
plates are carried with confidence and
safety. The table is built to remain
absolutely rigid, and the thin but uni
form mattress protects the plate from
jar.
Before plate glass store fronts had
come into common use, when the han
ding of a big plate was counted as
good deal more of job than it is
now, they used to carry a great pane
of glass in sort of frame. which was
put on the wagon with the glass init
At its destination this frame or sup
port was worked carefully across the
sidewalk to the store front, where the
glass was dislodged from it to be set,
and altogether the setting of great
plate of glass was then quite an .un-
dertaking.
Now, with the setting of such
plates a common daily occurrence and
with men skilled in the handling of
them, they simply carry a big plate
out and lay it on their mattress cover
ed table topped wagon and carry tito
where it is to go and there slide it off,
to rest it for moment on blocks on
the sidewalk, and then they pick it
up and carry it to the window front.
Then they run under the lower
edge of the glass lifting straps, by
which men standing inside the window
as we'll as men standing outside can
lift on it when the glass is put into
place in the window frame. There
again it is raised on blocks until the
straps can be withdrawn, and then
the blocks are taken out and the glass
secured in place, all this being done
with great care, hut still with COM
parative ease and quickness and with
certainty, and in these times great
panes of glass are thus moved and
and set on all but the windiest days.
DANGER IN EARLY RISING.
ancient proverb that early to bed
and early to rise make man healthy,
wealthy and wise." 1t does nothing
of the sort. 1t makes him insane.
DR.. Savary, the French scientist,
said so to the members of the French
Academy, and DR.. Forbes Ross, in
an interview, upheld the view of his
French colleague.
According to him, early rising
makes for mental inehiciency. If we
were allowed to go to sleep and to
wake up when we liked, nerve illness
es and half the ailments in the world
would be abolished. 1t is only
plowman or a yokel who has no brain
work to do who can rise early with
imprnity. But then, it is pointed
out, he goes to bed at 8 in the even
ing. "People must have healthy
heart to rise early" said DIR. Forbes
Ross. Many a person with weak
heart has jumped up awaking early,
and fallen back dead.
''Few brain workers of any value
get up early. One or two novelists
boast that their best work is done in
the early hours of the morning-but
then, they don't say how they rest
for the remainder of the day.
eff man wakes up and remains
awake for some time, he should then
get up. But ifhe is awakened before
his sleep is exhausted, the tendency
is to go to sleep again. And this
shows that forced early rising is
wrong.
"No man should be forced to get
out of bed at 6:3o, have to be idle
half the day, finish with hard squirt,
and then be dragged out of bed again
in the early morning.
NINETY per cent. of the early ris-
ers end by suffering from insomnia.
And many of them get the habit be-
cause they cannot sleep. They are
like the fox in the fable. They want
everybody else to follow their perni-
cious example,"
Finally, DR.. Forbes Ross declares
that "a man who wakes up of his own
accord will do double the work of the
man who forces himself to get up
early. The thick headed, sleepy
clerk is the man who gets to the Of
fee first in the morning. He is not
worth his wages. The brightest man
is the man who is late because be has
oversight himself"
A REMARKABLE BLAST.
One Of the methods of quarrying