THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
August 1, 1908 
THE 
PIANOLA PIANO 
(WITH THEMODIST), 
The Piano of the Future. 
The Piano that Everyone ean play. 
Playable by Piano or Pianola Music Roll. 
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We will take your existing PIANO as part payment. 
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The time has passed to speculate upon the future of the Pianola Piano. 
It is here 
to-day as the most successful innovation in musical instruments. 
You may have your choice of four old-established Pianos of high reputation. 
THE WEBER 
THE STECK 
WHEELOCK 
STUYVESANT 
As a straight Piano or Pianola Piano. 
PADEREWSKYIS choice of Pianos is THE WEBER. 
RICHARD WAGNER'S choice was THE STECK. 
Manufactured and sold only by the 
Pianola Company Propty., Ltd., 
88 King William Street, next Rundle Street Corner. 
The Young Folks. 
Little Lights, 
“Tam only a glow-worm that no one will 
mark,” 
It said as it lighted a small lamp at dark. 
“My lamp is so feeble, my gleam is so 
small ; 
The great world for meis not lighter at 
alli? ; 
But a lady-bird came that had lost its 
way home. 5 
And close by the glow-worm it happened 
to roam ; R ’ 
And it said, in its passing, “ Good-night, 
oh, good-night. 
Aud thank you, oh thank you, so much 
for your light.” 
I am only a star that at even doth shine, 
What light is so faint or so feeble as 
mine! : 
J warm not the lily nor light up the rose, 
And never a flower for me lovlier blows, 
But a sailor that wandered afar o’er the 
deep, 
Looked up at the star when all else were 
asleep; ‘ : 
And asthe ship sailed o’er the ocean’s 
white foam, ae 
He knew by the star he was stéering for 
home. 
“Tam only asunbeam,” it said at the 
dawn, ; 
As itsparkled and shone on a flower in 
the lawn ; 
* T’ve travelled and travelled so far from 
the sun, 
And what cana beam do that only is 
one ?” 
But the flower held a dewdrop left there 
‘by the night, 
And the sunbeam shone through it all ra- 
dient and bright, 
And it glistened and glittered till all that 
did pass 
Saw the dew, like a diamond, shine bright 
in the grass. 
The Wonders of Gellnloce 
The commonest thing in the every- 
day vegetable world is collulose—the 
material of which are made the cell walls 
of every plant. Cellulose, says Prof. R. 
K, Duncan in + Harper’s Magazine,’ 
which makes up one-third of the plant 
life on the globe, is capable, like gold 
and silver, of resisting the efforts of time, 
When pure, it neither rusts nor decays, 
but can endure through all generations, 
Yet, common as it is, it is one of the 
least understood of substances, and its 
greatest wonder is the fact that every 
tiny chip of knowledge we have been able 
.to extract from it has led to the estab- 
liahment of some new industry and has 
added enormously to the resources of 
mankind. . 
Linen is almost pure cellulose, and so 
is cotton, and so is silk; yet although 
the chemical substances are the same, 
their structure is very different, and their 
qualities vary with the structure. The 
paper on which this paper is printed is 
made from cellulose—and this would be- 
true whether it were linen or cotton or 
wood-pulp paper. It can be extracted 
either mechanically or chemically from 
the wood. Wood cellulose is not as good 
or as lasting as cotton cellulose. The- 
chemist cannot distingnish wherein the 
difference lies, yet a fortune awaits the 
man who can discover how to make the 
one as good as the other. 
The entire cotton industry is based’ 
upon cellulose, and it seems as if it were 
a mastered science; yet so littledo we 
know about the basic material that even 
a simple discovery in connection with it 
can still open the doors to drastic changes. 
John Mercer discovered that if a piece of 
cotton, which is pure cellulose, be placed 
in a strong solution of caustic soder, the- 
cellnlose unites with water, the cotton 
shrinks tweuty per cent. and becomes 
fifty per cent. stronger, and it has 
greater dyeing capacity. But if it be 
kept under tension so it cannot shrink, 
the whole fabric assumes the sheen of 
silk. A great industry has sprung up in 
the manufacture of “ mercerised” goods, 
Linen, cotton, jute, and hemp are 
common fibres of commerce, all pure cel- 
luose, which we have learned how to use ; 
but there may be, in any field of weeds, a 
dozen or a score of plants of equal value 
and utility could we but master the 
secret of their chief component and learn - 
thus to utilise them. 
Cellulose will dissolve in a hot solution 
of zine chloride, and makes a sticky 
syrup. When forced through a tiny ori- 
fice into alcohol, this syrup precipitates - 
a fine thread, which, when carbonised, 
makes a filament of for incandescent 
lamps. Paper soaked in the solution. 
and worked up, forms ‘“ vulcanised fibre.” 
Dissolved in another solution, cellulose 
forms a material which renders goods 
dipped in it water-proof, and such goods 
pressed together form bullet-proof sheets, 
sach as were used for barricades in 
South Africa, Dissolved in nitic acid, 
the cellulose forms gun-cotton, a high ex- 
plosive; bya slightly different treatment 
it becomes celluloid, and by another, col- 
lodion. 
One of the newest and most wonderful. 
of its uses is in the manufacture of artifi- 
cial silk from “ viscose,” or cellulose 
mercerised and dissolved in carbon dis _ 
sulphide. Forced through tiny holes by 
tremendous pressure, it issues in threads. 
which solidify snd are led to bobbins, 
eventually passing through the spinning — 
and we.ving processes to emerge lustrous 
silken goods —‘ Youth’s Companion ? 
Among the geograpnical questions was 
the following :—‘ Name the zones-’ One 
promising youth of eleven years, who, had 
mixed the two subjects, wrote :—‘ There 
are two zones, masculine and feminine- 
The masculine is either temperate or 
iutemperate ; the feminine is either torrid _ 
or frigid. 
