Popular Science Monthly 



Make Soldiers' Waistcoats Out of 

 Your Old Kid Gloves 



PATRIOTIC women in America may 

 profit by the experience of their Brit- 

 ish cousins and follow their example, by 

 devoting their attention to the making of 

 "glove waistcoats" instead of the sweaters 

 which their nimble fingers have been knit- 

 ting heretofore for 



the soldiers and 

 sailors of our coun- 

 try. These vests 

 are made of waste 

 material, discarded 

 kid gloves, which 

 cost practically 

 nothing. The lin- 

 ing costs only 

 thirty-five cents. 

 One of these vests 

 can easily be made 

 in a day or two, 

 while the knitting 

 of a sweater takes 

 considerably more 

 time. Another 

 advantage of the 

 glove vests is that 

 they weigh but a 

 few ounces, are 

 less bulky than 

 woolen sweaters, 

 yet fully as warm 

 and more windproof . In addition to that 

 they do not shelter vermin as do the 

 knitted garments. It is to be hoped that 

 American women will see the advantages 

 in this new patriotic work. 



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Emmanuel, Giuseppe Garibaldi and Count 

 Cavour and are the work of Jacopo Fran- 

 chini, a skillful glassworker in Murano, 

 near Venice, Italy, who lived in the early 

 part of the nineteenth century and 

 worked so hard at his strange craft that 

 he died in a madhouse. 



The National Museum in Washington 

 has recently acquired a fine collection of 

 marvelous glass- 



This light, warm, windproof waistcoat is 

 made from old kid gloves at small cost 



The Smallest Portraits in the 

 World 



WHAT is believed to be 

 the smallest group 

 of portraits in the 

 world, is exhibited 

 in the National Mu- 

 seum in Washing- 

 ton. The portraits 

 are arranged in the 

 form of a cloverleaf 

 and are enclosed in a 

 circular frame about 

 one-eighth of an inch 

 in diameter. They 



represent King Victor 



Small object between finger and 

 thumb and how it appears enlarged 



work made by 

 Franchini and 

 placed it on ex- 

 hibition. 



The portraits 

 are of glass and 

 really represent a 

 cross section of a 

 mosaic rod of 

 glass. Franchini's 

 method of making 

 these miniature 

 portraits was 

 highly ingenious. 

 He began by mak- 

 ing a mosaic of 

 the three portraits, 

 each in its indi- 

 vidual frame and 

 the whole set in a 

 common circular 

 frame. The mo- 

 saic was formed of 

 sticks of solid glass 

 of the desired color. After the mosaic 

 was completed, the cylindrical composite 

 rod was welded by heat and then drawn 

 out. As the rod was drawn out it dimin- 

 ished in diameter and the diameter of the 

 individual sticks of colored glass of 

 which it was composed dimin- 

 ished in proportion. As 

 the drawing out was 

 done carefully, the 

 particles of the sticks 

 forming the mosaic 

 remained in their 

 relative positions, 

 or nearly so. A 

 slight distortion 

 could not be avoided, 

 as may be noticed in 

 our reproduction of the 

 portraits greatly mag- 

 nified. Nevertheless, 

 the results obtained 

 were extraordinary. 



