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Show New Process of Staining Glass. The art of coloring glass has beea Inst and refoiind. Jealously guarded and maliciously stolen ao many times In tho history of civilisation that II seema almost Impossible to aay anything any-thing new on glass staining Yet procesa hnn been discovered for ma king the stained glass used In windows which la a departure from anything known at thn present time. What tha Veneilnna and the Phoenlctnna knew of It we cannot tell. Tho glass nrst recelvea Its design In mineral colors and tho whole la then I fired In a heat ao Intense that thn colt orlng matter and the glnsa aro India-solubly India-solubly fused. The most attractive feature of thla method la that the sur fare acqulrea A peculiar pebbled chap. ' actor In the heat, ao that when tha glass la In place Ihe llghta are delight fully soft and mellow. In making a large window In many shades each panel la aeparately moulded mould-ed and beut and the aecllons at a aembled In A metal frame. |