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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