We Live In the Age of Glass

1912

Compilation of a Few Facts Shows How Dependent This Generation Is on That Material.

Without glass elderly persons would be unable to read or sew, short-sighted persons would be about almost blind. Without glass we should know nothing more about the stars than was known by the ancients, nothing about the structure of matter, and we should not even suspect the existence of microbes.

Without glass we should have no photographs, no moving pictures and no illustrations in our newspapers. Without glass we could have no electric light bulbs, no X-rays, no colored windows in our churches, no thermometers or barometers.

Without glass chemists would use porcelain containers, we should drink out of metal or china mugs, we should let the light into our houses through sheets of mica.

"Glass," says the Scientific-American, "has been known from antiquity, but its common use is comparatively recent. This has been spoken of as the age of steel; it might equally be pronounced the age of glass."


Things to Think About

Minimize your own troubles. Let others do the worrying.

A hypocrite wants people to think he thinks what he doesn't think.

The less a man thinks of his neighbor the more he admires himself.


Holding His Own
"How's your son getting along in school?" "Fine. I haven't heard of any boy licking him yet."

—The Pointer, Riverdale, Illinois, January 2, 1920, page 7.