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THE FT-TOWSON SENTINEL
Free-Hand Embroidery
Design Is Fun to Do
IT IS not often that a mere mat-
ter of stitchery strikes a na-
tional note with Americans but
here is something from a school
teacher that may touch your pride
a bit She says "Your Book 2 on
Gifts and Embroidery interests
me because it is the only thing I
have seen on this subject that
shows simply and clearly how to
use a little originality in hand
work The women of all nations
but ours find pleasure in express-
ing their own ideas in embroidery
and needle crafts”
Here is another free-hand em-
broidery design that should be as
much fun as those in the book
This attractive border is suggest-
ed here for a bed jacket You
will have no difficulty in finding a
pattern for a jacket as they are
quite the thing- to wear over
sleeveless nighties Your free-
hand border will dress it up for a
Christmas gift
If the jacket is pale pink the
rows of running stitches might be
in several tones of rose The cross
stitches could be in deep rose and
turquoise blue to simulate flow-
ers The long and short stitches
shown at A and B should then
be done in apple green Lines
may be drawn with a ruler as a
guide to keep the rows straight
and evenly spaced dots may be
made to indicate the cross stitches
beginning the spacing at the cor-
ners of the design
Are you ready for Christmas
birthdays and the next church
bazaar? Do you turn time into
money with things to sell? Mrs
Spears’ Sewing Book 2 has helped
thousands of women If your home
is your hobby you will also want
Book 1— SEWINO for the Home
Decorator Order by number en-
closing 25 cents for each book If
you order both books a leaflet on
quilts with 36 authentic stitches
will be included free Address
Mrs Spears 210 S Desplaines St
Chicago 111
Veiled King
The Alifin of Oyo a province of
Nigeria is not only considered to
be an intelligent king by his 1400-
000 subjects but also is regarded
as one of the most enlightened
rulers in West Africa Yet no one
outside of his palace has ever-
seen his dusky face as he always
appears in public veiled against
the "evil eye” by a screen of
hanging beads — Collier’s Weekly
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Aluminum Once Royalty’s Tableware
Completes 50 Years of Practicability
Industry's Golden Jubilee
Recalls Early Struggle
Of Co-Pioneers -
By JOSEPH W LaBINE '
Fifty years ago this Novem-
ber in a little “two-by-four”
building in Pittsburgh Charles
Martin Hall and Arthur Vining'
Davis tinkered with a dyspep-
tic electric generator a few
carbon electrodes and a carbon-lined
“pot” for an “elec-
trolytic bath”
One of them closed a
switch the electrodes sput-
tered the current began to
pass through the mass in the
pot — and a new industry was
born which was destined to affect
virtually all -of the nation’s popula-
tion Their discovery: Aluminum
For more than half a century sci-
entists of the world had sought to
produce it cheaply enough to re-
move it from the category of ah
emperor’s tableware to a practical
metal Napoleon III had sunk a
fortune trying to produce it for light-
weight trappings that would give
his cavalry an edge on its foes
Today as it prepares to celebrate
its golden anniversary the alumi-
num industry furnishes jobs direct-
ly for 51200 workers with an annual
payroll of $68000000 the Aluminum
association a trade group of some
of the 200 manufacturers of more
than 2000 aluminum products esti-
mates Indirectly it provides jobs
tor 150000 more the industry
claims
Metallic Reincarnation
Yet it is probably impossible
to make an accurate estimate says
Capt Kenneth G Castleman sec-
Election Day —
Picture Day
A favorite American politi-
cal game is having your pic-
taro taken while voting Here’s
a preview of three politicians ae
they will appear November 8
Above t Sen Millard E Tydings
of Maryland
Coo George H Earle of
Pennsylvania woe winning the
Democratic senatorial nomi-
nation when this picture wag
taken at the primary election
On November 8 he will vote
again sighing hopefully "
Aluminum is usea in countless forme— sheet tubing forg-
ings extruded shapes impact extrusions foil and wire to name
a few This workman is pouring email sand eastings
retary of the association for by far
the major tonnage of virgin alumi-
num produced becomes a perma-
nent part of the American scene
since the “scrap” is highly recov-
erable by remelting
“The aluminum foil which
wrapped your morning cigar may
have gotten its original start in life
in a cast touring body of the now
extinct Franklin automobile or one
of the famed 'White Steamers ”
Castleman says “Sold as scrap
from an automobile boneyard it
might have been restored to useful-
ness successively as a cooking uten-
sil an automobile piston a washing
machine or vacuum cleaner part a
bit of a permanent wave machine
a hair curler a toy kite a souve-
nir calendar-back or even a set of
false teeth"
In the short space of 50 years
(aluminum commercially is 10
years younger than electric light)
it has assumed fourth place in vol-
ume among metals although it has
had to battle for its position with
other materials commonly employed
for thousands of years
The first twinkling dawn of a
bright future probably appeared on
a February morning in 1886 when
Charles Martin Hall' then a youth
just out of Oberlin college rushed
from his crude woodshed labora-
tory to the home of his former
chemistry professor crying “I’ve
succeeded at last I’ve succeeded!”
In his hands were some pellets of
the first aluminum- to be made’ by
the electrolytic process which still
produces all the nation’s aluminum
Headaches Heartaches
But Hall's experiments had been
made in the laboratory There was
no assurance they would work on an
Sen Ellison D (Cotton Ed)
Smith of South Carolina knows
he’ll win but isn’t very happy
about it Throughout Ameri-
ca election day Ends news
photographers waiting at the
pells for personalities
industrial scale: He couldn’t find a
backer and it was two years be-
fore Capt A E Hunt George S
Clapp and a few other Pittsburgh
men decided to take a gamble and
invest $20000 in an experimental
or “pilot” plant N
Hall’s process had so many
“bugs” that for the first year or
two the little plant was hardly more
than an experimental laboratory it-
self Arthur V Davis another young
college boy who had been hired as
night superintendent now recalls
the early days smilingly
“Hall and I roomed at the same
house and each of us worked a hec-
tic 12-hour shift” Davis today the
outstanding figure in the aluminum
industry reminisces “Something
was always going wrong with the
plant The machinery would break
down the current would faiL
“It’s rather an amusing thing that
for a while during the first year the
only time we were able to produce
any aluminum was when the plant
broke down and the bath would
hardenr or ‘freeze’ In hammering
this black dirty mess out of the
pots we’d usually come across a
few pellets of comparatively pure
aluminum For the first year we
kept the metal in the office safe
because it was worth $5 a pound at
that time although today the price
is listed at 20 cents”
But after they had produced their
lightweight metal Hall and Davis
slowly awakened to The surprising
revelation that hardly anybody
wanted it True there was some
little sale for mustache combs la-
dies’ fans cigar "cases and a few
similar novelties popular in the
nineties But to make their orphan
industry successful these pioneers
knew they must get it into fields of
common use
Like cooking utensils for in-
stance Aluminum is light conducts
heat evenly and does not contami-
nate food Today nearly 400000000
aluminum cooking utensils have
been made BufTn the early days
it was impossible to get a utensil
manufacturer to try the metal
To make aluminum generally
available the founders of the indus-
try themselves had to find new uses
for the metal and often turn out the
fabricated products themselves
From their research laboratories
have come the discoveries leading
to streamlined trains new oxide fin-
ishes which opened up wide fields in
architecture and construction alu-
minum foil to wrap foods and in-
sulate buildings weather-resisting
aluminum paint and countless al-
loys which make the metal adapta-
ble to almost any purpose
The American aluminum industry
produced 292000000 pounds of virgin
ingot last year Yet it is within the
memory of persona now living that a
certain young man in Pittsburgh
once brought from London a pair of
opera glasses with frames of alu-
minum as a precious present for his
bride he could have had platinum
but aluminum was so much more
unusual— and they were both the
same price!
Waatara Newspaper Ualan
You'll Enjoy Making ’
This Appliqued Quilt
i Pattern 1S46
Here’s a chance for variety I '
Get out your scrap bag and just
have fun appliquing this cute pup
in the material as it comes to
hand He’s just one big simple
applique patch on a 9-inch
block the ribbon is put on in con-
trasting binding or embroidered
on He makes a fine pillow too
with matching triangles added at
the comers to form the pillow
Isn’t that a thought for gift or
fair? Pattern 1846 contains accu-
rate pattern pieces diagram of
block instructions for cutting
sewing and finishing yardage
chart diagram of quilt
Send 15 cents in stamps or coins
(coins preferred) for this pattern
to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft
Dept 82 Eighth Ave New York
Please write your name ad-
dress and pattern number plainly
Aga$$lz Spurned Money
- Agassiz the famous Harvard
naturalist when seized suddenly
by some new scientific inquiry
would drop everything to work on
it One day in the midst of such
an inspiration he was begged by a
visitor from another city to come
to them for a lecture entreated
implored and finally offered twice
the customary fee But Agassiz
only replied “I cannot afford to
waste my time in making mon-
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Used by millions for 80 yean Recom-
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In three strengths Regular Children's
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