Show PRECIOU PREC lOUo LOLD DUST kept lit in a table brauer tit nl tile the glern Goir ern rint 1 lit alle ll le seven even thousand dollars lot 1 ar 3 worth ot of gold dust in ill a table drawer poke your fingers into tile tho yellow stuff anil and notice how soft abott and agreeable to tile feeling it Is says tile washington star while the attendant in charge watches you ou carefully SOPS sees that yo yott do not got anay alvay walli ith any of 0 it it is smooth to tile the anh h because it is 18 nil composed of 0 rold gold boater y s him film nil bril to almost impalpable powder por tho the samo reabon oil too it Is absolutely puro anil alia virgin metal twenty four carats barats line tile tho drawer draper is in chirko charge ot of a 1 pretty young gir tit at tho the printing 0 tier her work there Is to stania gold lettering ilia and ornamentation upon bool covers coers tho the precious hubs comos comes to her in the shapo of 0 little rectangular heets of foil inexpressibly thin laid between layers of tissue paper i 1 1 ii insook in book form each book holding awen ty tour four gold shoots sheets handling thorn is a matter re requiring quirin g great baill though you not imagine it from casual inspection to begin r with say tho the young woman places on tho the table biblo before tier nil ordinary leather book cover site takes from tho little gold book a shoot of tilt alio foil not with her but by catching it up ill with a sma small 11 pad of raw cotton laying ilon down of puro yellow gold upon 1 a I little slab she cuts it into three pieces with a sharp knife she bho it smooth by blowing gently upon it with tier hor breath ono of tho pieces site applies to the luck back of the cover whore where the title is ii to go another sho also puts on tile bade back khero tho name n anio of tile author is to bo be N hilo ahn third biggest piece is spread over tile tin middle of ono one lap flap of tile cover cove r where tilt an ornamental om des design ign is ia wanted van ted next after smoothing tho the piece picco of gold film down firmly on oil tho the leather tile pretty girl slides the cover beneath a small press that stands on the bablo in tile tho press taco face downward is a dlo dio engraved in ili relief lellot with the name naino of 0 the book that la Is to bo tri cased lit in tho the cover tho the authors namo name and tile tho design referred to tile 1 I ho dio ate is ia ke kept p t heated IK aad by gas A movement of a lover worked by huid hand bring 4 tile dio die down don upon clio cover and the raised lettering and design burn the gold foil wherever thero is contact so that it is made to there to tile leather tit in those spots tho lie dio is ia lifted the cover Is withdrawn from the alio press and the alio vold is rubbed olt IT with ith it a piece of soft leather on th tho 0 end of a stick wherever tho the dlo die has not touched it tho the film comes oil off readily leaving tho the lettering lottering and tile tho design adhering so bo closely to tho the leather that they could not bo be removed save by hard scraping finally tile tho young woman rubs ruba tile leather with a chunk of 0 burnt rubber which takes oil all undesirable particles so that tho the ornamental pattern and tile names ot of book and author out 0 ut with beautiful clearness of outline in ill twenty four carat gold tho the cholo process lias has taken a good miny many words to describe but it is actually performed very quickly tho the covers balzi being g spread with gold stamped with tho the heated dio die and rubbed olt oil lit in rapid succession each fresh sort of book cover has to huo have a now die ate of courso course |