Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1919 — Shellac. [ARTICLE]

Shellac.

Shellac Is not made by man nor does It come from a tree. It is the exclusive product of a minute Insect that exudes It through all the pores of Its body. It Is first a secretion called lac, oozing from the bug after It has sucked the juice of certain plants and transformed It Into resin. This hardens on exposure to the air Into a deep orange colored mass semitransparent and breaking with a crystalline fracture. In a few days the Insect Is encased, the female forever, the mala to emerge twlpe a year with wings to fly away and begin the process all over again;

United States weather bureau forecasts are based on the general study of types of weather, combined with thq study of the series of the dally weather maps for a few days immediately preceding the period so- which predictions are to, be >made. No forecast of weather is made for a period in advance longer than is warranted by the rapidity of atmospheric changes gt that time. Many almanacs contain astrological predlctons, but they are not taken seriously. z There Is an old and trite saying that “Imitation Is the sincerest form of flattery,’’ and in that'Connection one of those things not generally known Is that the wearing of spats originated as a compliment to the kilted regiments who were t'hen In the Indian miutlny. The glorious deeds of the Highlanders In that campaign made them popular heroes, and In the late fifties many things In dree* were adopted by the public tn imitation of Scottish uniforms, but only spats survive.