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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1924-10-16, Page 7ing A 'Do. 'les leer pay en— role hnd des RS' ;on• mb- 3nt. •eat our ion, ilde 101. onto a as anbeeiJ ble eke 44" IGs NT POTTERY MAKING IN C ►NADA r Grades 'blj�•y Varieties of Clay Available,but the Better Are in Limited Supply.. Tfnt11 comparatively recently no i eovered with glazes and enamels and Canada Thts eondition,; however, •has •Suitable Clays in Canada, . ihiva• tableware was manufactured in'refired. 4een overcome by the establishment " Stoneware clays are sparingly dis- pe a pottery at Oshawa, Ontario, and ; tributed in Canada and are accessible is l in Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan. it is reported that another plant to be.oa�erated at Port Hope, Ontario. Thla type of clay is generally very The Oshawa plant` is turning out from smooth and plastic is the natural 50,000 to 75,000 pieces per week of state, and the eolor ranges from dark tableware and art pottery, using large- grey to almost white. I ly Canadian raw materials. Ball clays are highly plastic, fine - Stoneware and other heavy domestic , grained clays, which burn to a 'white pottery, such as teapots, mixing bowls,' color, but in the raw state, they are etc., 1s made at St. John, 14.B„ IUer- , dark colored, sometimes approaching vine, Que., Hamilton, Ont„ and Medi-, biaek. it ie one of the ingredients used cine Hat, Alberta, ( in compounding bodies for making Pottery includes many varieties of white earthenware, white wall tile, ware and from different• kinds of clay, electric porcelain, etc. There is• a The common flowerpot of the gardener , great variety in composition in the dif- is the Simplest kind of pottery made ferent ball clays, but none have been in quantity; and the unglazed pottery; found in Canada, except among the of the European and Asiatic ;peasant) great variety of white clays in south-! and Indian pottery are examples . of ern Saskatchewan. • Simple ware made for every day use,1 The name blue clay is often used in very often from the commonest brick; describing certain plays which are of elays• Porcelain, or china, le at the! a lead grey color, but the name is, -other extreme in the ceramic scale, , meaningless and has no significance, as and this class of pottery is made from' a host of clays of widely different pro-, the finest white- burning kaolin, with perties have a lead grey, or bluish which other ingredients are mixed. There are several types of pottery between these extremes but in a gen- eral way they can be grouped into two elasses—those which have a vitrified or non-absorbent body, and those hav- ing a soft body which is more or less porous. The latter require to be Dover- :ed with a glaze, or enamel, in order to render them watertight, but vessels ;of the first type may be left unglazed and still hold water. Modern pottery, however, is nearly always finished with a glaze, or enamel, whether the -body is porous or vitreous. Varieties of Pottery. The Mines Branch of the Depart- ment of Mines has carried out a num- her of investigations of the clays of Canada, and has reported upon the .suitability of these for the manufac- ture of pottery and earthenware. Some of these goads and the varieties • of clays entering into their, composition -are as follows: Porcelain Ware—This class of ware color, in the raw state. Cammercial kaolins, or china clays, are residual clays; derived from a rock composed mostly of feldspar, or con- taining little or no iron oxide. Crude' kaolin, so tar found in Canada, :is at tery industry by washing, in order tot free it from impurities, generally quartz grains. The washed kaolin is known by the name, china clay. China clays are less plastic- than stoneware clays and. generally burn to a white porous mass. They are mixed with ball clay, feldspar and flint for the manufacture of porcelain and white earthenware bodies. The only! kaollin, so far found in Canada, is at St. Remi d'Amherst, in Argenteuil Oounty, Quebec. ' Southern Saskatchewan is the only i region in Canada Where valuable clays 1 occur in abundance. There is a variety! of . white and grey clays over a large area, varying from low-grade stone-' ware clays to flreclays. They are! mined at two localities, East End and OTOS IS 'Y TO CQMI h1 • 4041, �aI�lII�1 111 11 11111 1111MIIlpi pgllllpn iJJ���'�IIIIt-1 t 111, !U • i74er. lar J N `�1Ir 111411-0 .!I ►:r Love the Jealous. 1 praised the daisies .on my lawn, Apd thou ray lady mowed then; down.' My garden stones, 1rn roved by moss, She tit owed—and that Was °• Beauty e loss. 1 When I adored the sunlight, she• IKepC a bright tire Indoors for me. She saw I loved the birds, and that Made her one day bring Irome a cat. She plucks ray flowers to deck each room, 1 Arid make me..fallow where they bloom. ' 1 Because my friends were kind and'1 I • many, She said—"'What need hats Love of any?" . What is my gain, and what my loss? Fire without sun, stones bare of moss, Daisies beheaded, one by •orae; 1 The birds cat -hunted, friends all gone-- These are my losses; yet, I swear, "A love-Iess jealous in its care Would not be worth the changing skin That she and I are living in. —W. H. Davies Last Flower of the Year. The gentian was the year's last child, Born when the winds were hoarse and wild With wailing over buried Sowers, The playmates of their sunnier hours. The gentian hid a thoughtful eye Beneath dark fringes, blue and shy, Only by warmest moonbeams won; To meet the welcome of the sun. Members of. the Canadian Alpine Club are shown crossing a glacier near the 'crest of Mount Robson, the highest peak in the Rockies, 14,000 feet above sea level. . The gentian her loing lashes through, Looked up into the sky s•o blue, And felt at home; the char there The good God gave herself to wear. . The gentian searched the gelds around No flower -companion there she found; nese. This proper place is North Cape, Upward from all the woodland ways latitude seventy-two degrees. At this Floated the aster's silvery rays. The gentian shut her eyelids tight On falling leaf and frosty night; right to deliver the first punch by cast of the dice,' struck the king ,a heavy blow on'`the •side of the head, stagger- ing him. -. . Richard, in his turn, now struck and "landed on his opponent's ear with such force as to kill him on the spot. Sir Walter Scott, he h1's inimitable .ro- mance "Ivanhoe," makes use of the story in;,his relation, of the exchange of buffets:'between th•e King 'and Friar Tuck. Sunrise at Midnight. You may think this impossible, but it is not. It is a fact which you have only to go to• the proper place to wit point, the ;sung at one tune of the year, does not set for several weeks; at an- other, it does not rise for several. At last, on the proper day, according And close her azure mantle drew, to the almanac, it shows its face. Af- When dreary, winds around her blew. terwards, it remains • for ten or twenty - minutes,- then goes down,. and at The gentian said, "The world is cold•; length does not set: -at 'all, but makes Yet ;one clear glimpse of heaven 1 hold. ; an •almost :perfect circle round the sky, The sun's last though is mine to keepl in full view. ' At Nortl ape t'Y'rugethe tame the sun does not sea -life inhabitants tell that it 12 •o'clock at night by' seeing the sun rise over the mountains. In Stockholm, the sun; -in June, sets a Feats of great'strength have at all ; short space before 10 o'clock. During times excited much interest, and the the night, it is -very light, owing to the passage of the sun round the earth to more extraordinary examples have been deemed worthy of record by his -ward the ,North Pole, and people can. torians. Remarkable though present -1 see to read at midnight. day feats undoubtedly are, they have i At the end of the Gulf of Bothnia, often been eclipsed by those recorded there is a mountain, where, on the 21st iu bygone days. 1 of June, the -sun does not set at all. One of the most famous strong men This happens only' on that night. The London Feasts the Eye, The face pf every town has its de' licious .differentness," says 0. E. Mon. Lague, "but of all oitiea, Leaden, atter all, is surly the finest to loop at. You,. - And It cut' if you have lived there in, your youth, and then been long away, but sometimes revisit the place. You see it then with effectually opened eyes, as the, man who has long been in some tropical wild sees rural England, revealed while his train comes up from Plymouth through two hundred miles of trimmed, fenced garden, half -miracu- lous, half -laughable, and wholly bit - clearing, Fleet Street when th e lamps are being lit' on a clear evening; South- wark, its ramshackle wharves and mud foreshores, seen from Waterloo Bridge at five o'clock on a sunny June morning, the eighteenth -century bank of the river looking across to its nine- teenth-century bank; the Temple's en, claves of peace where, the roar of the sparrow, twenty years array, planted clear and edgy, like a little foreground figure, on that dim background of sound; the liberal arc of a mighty circle of buildings massed above the Their Only Hope. Embankment, drawn upon the dark - They were raw recruits that the ser- nese in dotted lines of light, as a night geant was trying to knock into shape. I train brings you into Charing Cross; Very, very raw, he called them, and , the long line of big ships dropping s•omthing else as well, as you may noiselessly down the silent river, past guess, if you know anything about ,ser- Greenwich and Grays, on the ebb of a geants. On this Occasion they were being in- structed in the use of the rifle. Theyfired at one thousand yards range, and missed the target alto - "Enough -now let me go to; sleep." -LI-LucyLarcom. Strong Men of Old. is made from the finest white kaolin,' Willows. These clays will be found atter it has been thoroughly washed , suitable for the manufacture of vari- to clear it of quartz, mica, and other _ous kinds, of pottery, including heavy 'impurities The kaolin is mixed with; tableware called white gr ball clay, flint and feldspar: The kap- stone china. midnight high tide—O, there are end- less courses to this feast." Rub insect Bite. Why, when bitten by an insect, do gether. Then at eight hundred yards, we instinctively rub the affected part? with the same result. By easy stages Massage, as applied not only to an in - the distance, was reduced to thirty sect bite but to almost any other in - yards, but still not a shot got home. jury, such as a bruise, is an instinct At last the patience of thier in- almost universal. structor was exhausted. Its first reason is to wipe away the; "Fix bayonets," he ordered. "Charge! It's your only hope!" • A Long Wedding Feast. In India the wedding feast lasts for about twenty-four hours. lin' gives the body its pure white color, 1 The laboratories of the Mines Branch at Ottawa have tested out practically all the known plays of Canada, and results of these experi- ments are available. It is in this work that the Mines Department has proven itself so invaluable to industries 'de- pendent upon our mineral resources for raw materials, and much unneces, vary investigation and expense will be saved to Canadian manufacturers contemplating engaging in clay -using industries if the information available at the Mines Branch is made use of. What is "Pedlar's French?" the ball clay serves as a bond and. makes the wet body more plastic. The feldspar has a fluxing action that Wakes. the burned ware hard and im- pervious, and the flint makes• the ware somewhat porous so that a glaze niay be applied. The mixture of these ma- terials' is fired at a high temperature, ,glazed. and ,refired at a lower tempera - tire, • Some porcelains, such as electri- cal porcelain, are glazed before firing, time •acoomplishing the work of two firings in one. Stoneware pottery -.Articles for do- mestic use, like crocks, jugs, mlxilg bowls, teapots, etc., are generally The wiseacre says that the expres- made from stoneware whiclhburns to sdon "Welsh rabbit" is -a perversion of a dense body of extreme hardness, Welsh rarebit, but this is -a mistake. varying :in color from nearly white to .The man who 'first made this sugges- dark rey. A great deal of the so- tion bald no sense of humor. tailed arti pottery is made from stone Asa matter of fact, the table fur - ware lays. nishes many examples of names of White Earthenware =- The heavier viands which have an alias of the same kind of tableware;, known by various humorous description as Welsh rabbit. trade names, as *hate earthenware, Sailors, for instance, call a shark ironstone, china, and white granite- steak "Folkestcne beef," and fisher ware, are made from mixtures of white folk commonly call • smoked herring burning -clay and finely ground quartz "Digby chicken." and feldspar, burned to a fairly dense A similar instance to 'Welsh rabbit but porous body and covered' with 'a is provided by poached egg on toast clear glaze. .A great variety of ornaw being known as "Scotch woodcock," Ynentai .pettory is made of the white and an Australian leg of mutton as "Colonial goose. In the sixteenth century slang was called "Pedlars French, and everybody has heard a caslh register called a "Jew', piano." The fur trade -has many aliases of this• kind, like"bunny- Beal," "marsh -squirrel," and. "Alaskan sable;' all of which are camouflage names for s+ubstittttes for the real ar. bole. of antiquity was Polydatnas, the Thes- ! salian, wbo lived about 400 B.C. Won- 1 derfal stories are told of his colossal ` size and strength, On one occasion he' 1s said to have held a wild bull so firm- I ly by ;one of its hind feet that the ani -1 mal in its struggles to release itself, wrenched off' its hoof, while another feat for which he was renowned was the stopping of a chariot when driven at full speed by seizing the wheel. Richard Coeur de Lion was an ex- ceptionally strong man, and it is 're- lated of him that, while a prisoner in Germany in the hands of the emperor, he gave a terribly practical proof of the force of the blow he was able to deal with his clenched fist, The son of his principal warder had invited the royal captive to an ex- ohange of blows, and, winning the earthenware body covered with color- ed glares. 'Colored Earthenware -- There is a great variety of pottery made from nattpral tai pure clays, whicl>, burn to colors ranging from light buff to deep "'ted. Most of these clays soften and ,Yee their shape if burned to too high tet iterature,, consequently the body reiiralns Vomits after tiring, and is theit.� • sun touches; the horizon, but does not sink below it; In- five minutes, it be- gins to ascend again.. • A Bee's Travels. Experts figure that a bee must travel 40,000 miles to get a pound of honey. ReVirse English. A native 'clerk in Manilla came into his master'sb'offce and asked for a transfer to spme other department, or even another island. "But why do you want to leave here?" asked the superior ;ofcer. "Because," the 'man repllied, "I am homesick." "Oh, well; in that ease there is no .need for a transfer. I can arrange for you. to have a little vacation and then you can .come back. Where is your home?': e.' . "Rigli_t;here, boss," was the doleful reply,, ‘4p d . I am sick of it," Sir Samuel Winson, the new governor of Janr With his wife and family to take over hiss -post. lett- enc pu.;recently insect, or to assure ourselves what damage has really been effected. In the econd"place,•we unconsciously set up a counter -irritation of the nerves, which tends to distract our attention from the original ailment; and thirdly, by the actual pressure of the rubbing we check the flow of the blood in the area of the trouble and so "slow down" our capacity for feeling the pain. The Bowdoin is shown after its trip in the Arctic regions, where it car- ried Capt. Donald MacMillan and his crew for 333 days of travel through snow and ice. • Seal T Warnings of Earthquakes i `` ffi Twen$r Minutes. ekes Given by Sea Tides. Affixing the great seal, the lord The recent discovery that tides are : chancelilor's most treasured posses - definitely affected by earthquakes has 1 tion, is nowadays an impresive cere- led to the announcement here that? mony. Used to ratify the patents of quakes may be predicted in the future peers, baronets, and judges of the high court, as well as far ims.iterteht state by a close observation of abnormal rise and fall of the ocean in the vi -documents, the `preseat;`3ea1 was cinity of known tremor centres, says struck at the royal'•nrint shortly after a Tokio despatch. 1 the King's acce•sston• It is .made of The •authorities of the Weather Bun- silver, measures six inches in diamete' 1 reau in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokio, and cost £400. had an opportunity to test their theo•rY Up to within recent years the great when it was 'observed that the tide had seal of England never left the lord been rising steadily off the coast at chancellor's keeping. It was carried Choshi until the day of a quake when by frim on all his journeys at home and it had passed what is known as the abroad. Nowadays it is kept in a safe danger point. On the morning follow- at the crown office. ing the tremor the water had receded Affixing the seal takes twenty min - and was four feet below the former utes. Whenever it is used two officials mark. This fact, they believe, con- of state, known respectively as "Chaff firms the belief that serious disturb- Wax" and the "Sealer," have to be ances in the earth's crust are preceded present. In olden days theirs; was a by an abnormal rise in the tide. whole -time appointment. Now the Befcre the earthquake, disaster of titles are held by minor officials, a September 1 the title at Choshi had dummy great seal being used, except reached the danger mark some three in the instances named above. mouths prior to the catastrophe. The Bose promontory, which forms! ' the extreme southern end of Chiba Perfecture, is thought to be about fifty miles from a spot in the Pacific agreed by experts to be an earthquake zone, This zone, the authorities point out, is the cause of a serious disturbance in the earth's crust at intervals of 100 years. The last •catastrophe thought to have originated in this quake centre , was a tidal wave which inundated Tokio and surrounding territory seven- . ty years ago. According to this esti- mate. another colooseal iP,saster is due In about thirty years, lout the authori- ties in Chiba are reassuring the resi- dents with the theory that they will be able to pre 1iet the quake by the vides and give cut a warning, ioa Another Purpose. .1' Diner ----"I say, Waiter—do you call i this bean soup?" ) Her Fortune. Walter -•--"Tho cook does, sir." �.I*Ita': would you say her Porl.rrna "Why the bean in ibis ,soup isn't big. enough to flavor it!" is? "It isn't. 'supposed to flavor it, sir.! "A small but attractive ?gore ex T l r It is Just snppcsed to christen UPt presses `•sses it, I'd say," s eI •