Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — Multiplying Brickwork. [ARTICLE]

Multiplying Brickwork.

The Boston Journal of Commerce gives the following: Ordinary bricks are about eight inches in length,and, with a mortar joint, about half that in width, so that each brick on the flat will give a horizontal surface of about thirty-two square inches, or four and a half bricks will cover one square foot. As ordinarily laid there are nine courses to every twenty-four inches, or four and a half to the foot; four and a half courses, with four and a half bricks to the course, will give twenty and one-fourth bricks to the cubic foot. Waste, cutting and close joints will easily require an allowance of twenty-one bricks per cubic foot, which will be found a very convenient figure for estimating the number of brick required for a wall of given height and thickness as it thus becomes unnecessary to find the cubic contents of the wall, but merely to multiply its face area, or the product of the length and height in feet by seven-fourths of its thickness in inches, which, as the thickness is always some multiple of four inches, is a very simple process. There are many jet bonnets trimmed with little Mercury wings heavily incrusted with jet or with rosettes of rose-colored velvet or of bright stem-green. Still other bonnets are made up entirely of tiny wings, brilliant with spangles and discs of glittering black jet. Tulle cravats are worn with the tulle trimmed hats, and are made with two large rosettes, instead of the bow which has prevailed so long. An extreme fancy for giving breadth to the revers and keeping them in place is carried out by putting a slender whalebone in the upper edge. There are little bonnets of white rice straw, trimmed with black velvet and bands of bright olive-green velvet, heavy ecru lace, black ostrich tips, and a pompon of jet. This seems heavy for summer, yet the trimming is delicately put on, so that the velvet forms a strong relief for the bright hue of green and the dead white of the straw.