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Show WELL CALLED AGE OF GLASS Compilation of a Few Facts Shows How Dependent This Generation Is on That Material. I Without glass elderly person would be unable to read or sew, Miort-slght-ed persons would go about almost blind. Without glass we shonjjfcnow nothing more about the sty-than was known by the ancients, nothing nlmllt llin Mtrai'ltll-t of mutter, nnd We should not even suspect the existence of microbes. Without glass wo should have no photographs, no moIng pictures nnd no Illustrations In our newspapers. Without glass we could have no "electric "elec-tric light bulbs, no X-rays, no colored windows In our churches, no thermometers thermom-eters or barometers. Without glass chemists would use porcelain containers, we should drink out of metal or chltm mugs, wo should let tho light Into our houses through sheets of mica. "Glass," say tho Scientific American, Ameri-can, "ban been known from nutlqulty, but Its common vrn i ovmoratlvely recent. This hns been spoken of us tho ago of steel; It might equally be pronouncad the ns' of slass," V Z.ZZZ I |