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clay. A fourth custom was to make a 

 number of clay coils, of graduated circum- 

 ference, corresponding to the dimension of 

 the bowl at the particular part where the 

 coil was to lie. When built up in this 

 fashion, the bowl resembled the basket of 

 candy coils seen in our shops at Christmas. 

 The next operation was to beat the coils 

 flat. 



This beating-out was perhaps an im- 

 portant part of the process with ancient 

 potters. Paddles and hammers of con- 

 venient shape were used, and the clay wall 

 compressed between them. As might be 

 inferred by anybody that has worked in 

 clay, the beating required considerable 

 skill. While tedious, too, it had the ad- 

 vantage of improving the texture of the 

 clay. 



There is also a theory that vegetables, 

 such as gourds, were widely used as 

 molds, and eventually removed in the firing 

 process. The basket-mold is thought by 

 many to have been the most utilized, some 

 investigators going so far as to say that, 

 by this means, pottery was the forerunner, 

 and thus furnished the idea, of basket- 

 making. 



KEEPING WARM WITH ICE 



KEEPING warm with ice is a process 

 which seems turning ordinary usage 

 upside down, says a writer in Harper's 

 Weekly, but the operation is very simple. 

 It consists in the furnishing of a double- 

 lined car with four galvanized iron 

 cylinders reaching from the floor almost to 

 the top. In Summer these cylinders are 

 kept filled with ice and salt in order that the 

 car may be maintained at a cool tempera- 

 ture ; in Winter they are filled with ice in 

 order to keep the contents of the car from 

 freezing. 



Ice is nominally at a temperature of 

 thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit, and it is a 

 substance that changes its temperature 

 reluctantly, being a bad conductor of heat 

 or cold. Consequently, when zero weather 

 prevails without, the cylinders of relatively 

 warm ice present the escape of heat; in 

 other words, so it is claimed, they maintain 

 the temperature within the car. 



Don't Give up the Ship. By Charles S. 

 Wood. New York: The Macmillan 

 Company: 1912. Cloth. 8vo. Illus- 

 trated. 314 pages. Price, $1.25 net. 

 Mr. Wood has given boys and girls a de- 

 lightful story and one well told in the pages 

 of "Don't Give up the Ship," a tale opening 

 with the period of 1807, and as its title sug- 

 gests, having to do with Perry and the flag- 

 ship Lawrence. This is an admirable book 

 to put in the hands of the young person. 



Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse 

 Furniture. By Arthur Hayden. New 

 York : Frederick A. Stokes Company : 

 1912. Cloth. 8vo. Illustrated. 350 

 pages. Price, $2.00 net. 

 The author of "Chats on Old Furniture," 

 Mr. Arthur Hayden, has given us another 

 delightful and useful volume in his "Chats 

 on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture." 

 The number of works dealing with old 

 English furniture has grown rapidly dur- 

 ing the last ten years, but the present vol- 

 ume fills an especial niche in that it has 

 been written for that large class of col- 

 lectors, who while appreciating the beauty 



