Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-12-03

plate glass WINDOW
A pretty face reflected? You
are fortunate. The house across
the way7 Yes. But beyond that,
what do you see?
Bronzed men, clad only in loin
cloths, covering under the lash Of
the slave driver, tramping clay,
1000 h. c.; a priestess darkening
her eyebrows with slibium from a
phial, in the Temple Of khons at
Karnak. 2000 h. c.; a young
patrician oiling his locks, before
pier glass in the baths Of Pom
peii, / 4. u; the fare Of furnaces
on a Venetian Canal, 100 A. D.;
a crude factory. In a clearing near
jamestown. Virginia. fsshionine
haubes for the sisters % Pocs.
hontas, 1909 a. d.; men, clad in .
little mare them loin cl,thS, sur
rounded by machines controlled by
an electric button. tramping clay,
U. s. A.. 1922 4. d.
You are looking into one Of the
oldest Of the arts. Alice, for which
men have lived and died through
COCO years in order that you might
see n perfect world through your
plate glass window, or find reflect
ed nawlessly in your mirror--a
pretty face.
Vanity. vanity, all is vanity,
saith the Preacher. Perhaps-but
listen TO the story Of your WINDOW
and your looking glass.
Gla,, a Blunder, Say, Pliny.
Pliny set down the invention Of
glass as an accident, into which a
group 81 Phoenician merchants
stumbled while cooking breakfast
in the dim DAYS Of antiquity.
These Phoenicians hcached their
gsllcys on the coast Of Palestine,
according 20 pliny. But when
they had built their camp fires
end tried 20 set up their cooking
pots 10 prepare the Phoenician
equivalent Of ham and eggs. they
failed 10 find any stones in that
desert country. So the pots were
set up on cubes Of soda from their
cargo. The heat Of the fires melt
ed the soda and fluyed It with the
sand. and TO their amazemcnt they
bcheld a clear fluid forming as a
result % the fuxing-glass.
Pliny Va. Science.
Now Science. the iconoclast,
steps IN and completely wrecks old
Pliny. For Science says that 90
produce the fuxing II sand and
coda heat ~ $500 degrees +.
would have been necessary, and
that breakfast fires didn't get that
hot, even in hot Palestine.
So pliny. muttcring imprcca-
tons, is led from the witness stand
and thrown out 81 court.
One can imagine Pliny. outside,
wiggling his fingers az his nose
and shouting in low Latin. "iou
say you found glass in the temples
81 me Fourth Dynasty. nut there
in 1000 y. C.. heh? Where did
those Egyptians get their $500
degrees F.?'
And. quite unable 10 answer, "A
deep blush 81 humiliation nantes
the brow Of Science.
Solomon, Marine Grill
Monuments built in 3Pgs y. G.
showed glass bottles containing red
wine. Benz Hasan Egyptian
Michael Angelo. painted glass
blowers about 1850 4 c.. and the
paintings are still IN existence.
The Koran. good book % the East,
records that solomon. King 81
Judah. paved a court with "clcar
glass laid over running water, IN
which live fishes might b. seen"
II appears that those u.tra-mod-
ern hotels with their marine grills
are not so ultra modern after all
The Queen 81 Shcba. were she 20
drop In for oysters, would proha-
bly, yawn. lilo hum, What a
hcas,ly bore. solomon did all this
for me i've Thousand years ago"
The archscologists dug a glass
boat out q the lava a. pompcii.
Scarus. An Aedi.c. or Supcrintcud-
ent 81 hui -nf IN Rome. con
structcd lhcatre seating 10000
IN VII. 'hc second story was
entirety ~ g'asa.
CNrreh-s Ia fsmmel
IA fir midi. e. ayes aII the world