CHARM AND BEAUTY

Evening Star, Issue 19229, 21 April 1926, Page 4

CHARM AND BEAUTY

Yes, the charm and beauty of outline obtainable in glass, as demonstrated by the Marvel Boy Glass Blower, is suggesting to onlookers—-perhaps even more than to the artist at his work—many purposes to which glass may bo put. It has boon admitted that glass is one of the grandest of ail instructors in the sciences. Many scientific discoveries would have been impossible without glass and the skill of the glass blower. The test tube, the spectacle lens, the telescope lenses, the thermometer, the barometer, and many other useful inventions—not forgetting its use in electric lighting—are all dependents upon glass. Indeed, glass has its part in most safety and health devices, and greatly assists production generally. Summing all up, the marvel of glass as a product of man’s ingenuity and industry is stupendous, and it is interesting to know that the Marvel Boy Glass Blower at his stand in the Amusement Zone at the Exhibition is doing his utmost, by example and precept—i.o., by “doing” and “explaining”— to open tho understandings of all who are ambitions to acquire valuable ideas.

A book of national importance, and of particular credit to Otago, is the ‘ Exhibition Pictorial History,’ the official volume being issued to perpetuate the Exhibition achievement. All parts of the big show will bo shown, and arrangements have been made so that exhibitors may have full-page illustrations of their displays. The producers, Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie, Ltd., are at present busy compiling this work, which should be a very handsome record for posterity.