The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-16
ABOUT COURT PLASTER.
The Latest Novelty In this Line
Some Of Court Plaster's Varied
Uses.

uses.
You wouldn't think, would you,
that there could be anything new In
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 It
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 it, you cut off a piece
of suitable size. Then somebody had
an idea-court plaster that you didn't
have to cut on but that you could
tear OFF as required.
Still further back. when postage
Stamps were first brought into use,
to be printed as they still are, in
sheets, 1t 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
the stamps in the sheets could be
readily torn OF an idea, this, Of such
utility that 1t 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 tho 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
iie in such form as to cut the little
sheet OF plaster not into sections o.
uniform size, but to enclose spaces of
various sizes, so that you can tear
on from a little sheet of perforated
court plaster piece of any size you
want
Handy this perforated court plast.
er is supposed TO be II you don't hap
pen to have a pair of shears around
/ x,rh ptt d.
way; and using two narrow strips oil
1t together the perforations between
might serve for purposes OF ventila
tion over the wound II Is made II
the various court plaster colors ant
sold like any other in single sheets
or in sheets assorted as to colors.
As 10 court plaster in general it I,
made on silk. on tracing cloth and OF
muslin, and there Is also a heavie
court plaster made on Kid Cour
plaster is made in green, flesh color
black and white. or these colors fesl
color is the one in greatest demand
with white next, black third ant
green last.
And what does anybody want greer
court plaster for? Why, one thinl
they use II for is the mending of tn,
cloth on billiard tables. Some highl!
scientific amateur makes a beautiful
masse shot or a wonderful draw
tearing the cloth incidentally, and lat
er they mend this rent with piece o
green court plaster, put on neatly AM
matching the cloth bu color
But court plaster OF one color o
! another has various uses besides tina
in which 1t is most familiar, as, 70
instance, II Is used in mending books
i in place of sealing wax in securing
: envelopes and in mending torn banl
notes.
u Formerly all the court plaster use,
in this country was imported from
: Europe now 95 per cent. OF the cour
plaster sold here is made here am
q American court plaster is exported
. some to Europe and more to Spanish
Amegican and to Asiatic counSrisa.
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