1926.92 January 12 1926

Regular Meeting. Jan.12, 1926.

The regular meeting of the Tuesday Club was held January twelfth at the Unitarian Parish House and was opened by the President. After the customary business, Miss Minnie A. Gilbert, Chairman of the Home Economics Department, introduced Miss Alice A. Kretschmar who spoke on "The Romance of Glass". Miss Kretschmar began with a technical description of the materials and methods employed in the making, blowing, cutting, etching, and gilding of glass, and showing many illustrative specimens. A hexagonal dish, with one side of plain glass, the other five showing the progressive stages of cutting was of particular interest. The finest gold incrusted glass was developed in Spain, the colored glass in Bohemia, while mirrors were introduced in France by Louis Quatorze, and to France, again, we are indebted for artificial pearls, and spun glass so delicate that it is woven into textiles. In America, the first glass

factory was established in Jamestown in 1608, for the making of window glass, bottles, and the various household articles of Sandwich glass, so coveted today. Beautiful pieces of glass were passed around, for closer inspection, comprising Venetian, Gold Incrusted Spanish, Bohemian, Clased Glass, a German Glass Decanter, Belgium Flush* Glass, an early English Witch Ball, and opalescent glass.

Adjournment followed, Respectfully submitted, Lucy E. Henderson, Rec. Sec.