| Show MAKING A NEEDLE NEEDIE I 1 wonder if any little girl who mairead may read this ever thought how many people are all the time at work in making th the thin things thins s which she every day uses what can ie be more common and arid you may think more simple than a needle needie yet if you do not know it I 1 can tell you that it takes a great many persons to make a needle and a good deal of time too let us take a peep into a needle factory in going over the premises we must pass hither and thither and walk into the next street and back again and take a drive to a mill in order to see the whole process process we find one chamber of the shops is king ting hung round with coils of bright wire of all aft from the stout kinds used for codfish cod fil fish sh hooks to that 0 of f the finest cambric needles in a room below bits of wire the tile length of 0 two needles are cubby cut by a kh vast t pair of sh shears ears fixed 1 in 16 the wall abati A butt bait die has been cut off the bits need straighten 0 in anfor for they just came off from coils I 1 up the bundle is thrown into a red ted hot hov furnace and then taken out and rolled baci backward ward arid alid arid ared for forward ward oh orn a table until the wires are straight this process is called rubbing strai straight geil gril we now see a mill for grinding needles we g go 0 down own into the basement and find a needle pointer p seated on his bench lie ile takes up two d dozen OC or so pf af the wires and anti rolls them theia be tween his thumb and fingers with their ends I 1 on the grindstone first one end and then the other we have lowthe now the wires straight and pointed at both ends next a mac machins liina which flattens and gutters the tile heida heids of ten thousand needles an hour observe the little gutters at the head of your needle next commes cornea the punching of the eyes and the boy who ho does it pune punches hies fies el eight thousand an hoar hour and he lie does I 1 it so fast conr hiir eye can hardly keli keep pace with him th the splitting splitting follows which chic is 13 running a fine wire through t to ah a dozen berh perhaps per hips aps of thue these twin needles A woman with a I 1 litUs itta anvil before her files between tho headd and separates them they are now complete needles but rough and rusty and what is worse they easily bend A poor needle you will say but bat the hardening comes next they are heated in batches in a burnace Eur furnace nace and when red hot are thrown in a pan of cold water next they must be tempered and this is done by rolling them backward and forward on a hot metal plate tae the polishing still remains to be done on oil a very coarse cloth needles are spread to the number of forty or fifty thousand emery emr emery ry dust is strewed over them oil is sprinkled and soft soap dashed by spoon fulls over the cloth the cloth is then ro rolled led u up p sandwith and with several others of the bame samp kind thrown into a sort of was wash h pot to roll to and fro for twelve hours or ino rno more re they come i out dirty enough but after rinsing in clean hot waterland wat water erand alid a tos tossing in sawdust they bool looka gs s bright as can be ill and are ready to be sorted and anti put up for sale but the sorting and the doin doln doing up in in papers you oil may imagine imagine is quite quile a w work r by itself ex |
