The Washington times., 1924-09-20
BELL FOUNDING
HAS ANCIENT
HISTORY
Old Founders Won Fame for
Art Equal to Great Violin
Makers

Bell founding or casting, even
though many centuries old Il not
very well understood even at this
late day, and much uncertainty
still attends the casting Of every
large bell.
Bell founding flourished in many
monasteries of the twelfth century,
and several families of that time
attained fame equal to the great
violin makers. The Purdues Of
Salisbury cast the famous bell
called Peter of Exeter About
the time Of Henry VIII the Rud-
halls OF Gloucester won high honors
for their bell casting.
To Riverside, California, belongs
the honor OF housing probably the
largest and finest historic collec-
ton Of bells,-a collection which
can tell an almost uninterrupted
story Of the bell from the first
crude flake. Of stone to the per-
fectly shaped, tuned. decorated, in
scribed and signed example OF the
present-day bell founder.
This famous collection Of bells
20 the property of Frank A. Miller
and comprises about 500 specimens
which hang in the courts of the
garden Of bells are altar chimes
! from Rome hanging next to those
from the temples of India, China.
and Japan; bells of Buddhist beg.
ging pilgrims, and those which
rang the Angelus in sunny Spain;
bells used by pilgrims when climb
ing the slopes of Fujiyama; bells
from Scotland: bells that take ono
back to the days Of the warning
Christian and Moslem, to the days
when the name OF Richard the Lion
Hearted was still a fresh memory
with the Saracens.
There are bells taken from the
necks Of goats browsing on the
Acropolis at Athens: Swiss cowbells,
old sheep bells from Zermatt, and
one that once hung from the neck
Of a sacred bullock in Ahmedabad:
q camel bell from peshawar. and a
donkey bell from Cairo, a bell that
tinkled to the stately tread Of My
Lord and the Sacred Elephant Of
India; a castle Tocsin from Wuert.
temberg dated 1746: a house bell
from Russia cast before the reign
Of Peter the Great, and a pot
latch" rattle used in the dances Of
Alaska Indians; also castanets Of
the eighteenth century used by
dancing fakirs Of India.
There are gongs whose hoarse,
discordant notes once echoed
through fantastic temples Of the
Far East: house gongs from Tokyo
which announced the coming Of
guests; very old prayer gong with
tip OF yak horn for a wand, from
Borneo; one 500 years old from
China with inscriptions in old char.
acter of the Ming Dynasty. A won
derful gong from japan, once used
in a sacred cha.no-yu. 10 beautifully
ornainented with decorative charac-
ters and imperial chrysanthemums
TIE wooden sounding mallet has an
inscription meaning Single Heart"
Daimyo or feudal days from 1908 to
1867. There is another tea cere.
mony gong made In the shape Of
the sacred foot Of Buddha, orna.
mented With sacred lotus.
THE CONNOISSEUR.
my husband would miss the
train to San Francisco"
"Did the defendant show any
signs Of intoxication ?"
"None whatever.
Driving while drunk. case
dismissed. Colliding, $40.
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Natural habitat, hogpen.
Note: Authorities disagree as
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