The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-12-24
ABOUT COUNT PLASTER.
The Latest Novelty In this Line
Some Of Court Plaster's Varied
Uses.


You wouldn't think, would you,
that there could be anything new tn
such an old thing as court plaster?
But there is that is comparatively
new, this novelty being only about
ten or twelve years old, and still un-
known to many people.
Since time out of mind. as In fact 1t
still is most commonly, court plaster
has been made and sold In smooth
little sheets, more or less disposed to
curl up, from which, when you had
occasion to use 1t, you cut off a piece
of suitable size. Then somebody had
an idea-court plaster that you didn't
have to cut off but that you could
tear of as required.
Still further back. when postage
stamps were first brought into use,
to be printed as they still are, in
sheets, it was soon recognized that
some other means of separating them
than by cutting them apart would be
convenient, and then somebody sug-
gested punching the spaces between
the stamps full of little holes, so that
readily torn off; an idea, this, of such
utility that It has remained is use to
the present day.
The new court plaster idea was
along the same lines, resulting in the
novelty of perforated court paster as
It is now sold But the court plaster
perforations are little different from
those made In sheets of postage
stamps
In the postage stamp perforations
little disks of the paper are punched
completely out and the lines of per-
forations run either way at regular
/ Intervals. In the perforated court
plaster the perforations are made
with knife edged cutters which make
| little slits in the plaster, with narrow
spaces of the plaster left between, and
| these cutters are set in the face of the
die in such form as to cut the little
! sheet of plaster not into sections OF
uniform size, but to enclose spaces Of
| various sizes, so that you can tear
| off from little sheet of perforated
court plaster a piece of any size you
! want.
Handy this perforated court plast-
er is supposed to be If you don't hap
pen to have pair of shears around
when you want to cut it; handy any
way; and using two narrow strips of
It together the perforations between
might serve for purposes OF ventila-
tion over the wound II Is made in
the various court plaster colors, and
sold like any other in single sheets,
or in sheets assorted as to colors.
AS to court plaster in general 1t is
made on silk, on tracing cloth and on
muslin, and there is also a heavier
court plaster made on kid Court
plaster is made in green, flesh color
black and white OF these colors fiesl
color is the one in greatest demand
with white next. black third and
green last
And what does anybody want green
court plaster for? Why one thing
they use 1t for is the mending of the
cloth on billiard tables. Some highly
scientific amateur makes a beautiful
masse shot or a wonderful draw
tearing the cloth incidentally, and lat
er they mend this rent with a piece o
green court plaster, put on neatly anC
matching the cloth i'm color.
But court plaster of one color OF
another has various uses besides tina
in which 1t Is most familiar, as, TO
instance, It Is used in mending books
In place of sealing wax in securing
envelopes and in mending torn banl
notes.
Formerly all the court plaster uset
In this country was imported iron
Europe; now SO per cent. of the cour
plaster sold here is made here an,
American court plaster Is exported
some to Europe and more to Spanish
American and to Asiatic countries.