Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-11-09

CHICAGO, NOV. i.
To the Editor Of Che Chicago Tribune:
Our attention has been called TO the let
Ter oves the nom IL plane Of Carried Hair ;
in your issue Of Oct. 81. Who is this
"curled Hair (" We propose to truly and
faithfully carlcature that Individual IS in
troductory to our reply. for, having SO
blindly thrown down the guantiet, we do
not he state TO accept his ''challcnge" in It's
broadcast, fullest sensc. lie himself refers 10
his ancestry" Ancestry indeed like 10.
seph's coat Of many coiors-htc,Aly So
including not only every color Of the horse
and the COW genus, but also, more largely :,
every descri able and indescr,bable color Of
the pig race, with all the delicate shading
given them both by the wonderful trichl-
ne,, and by their waliowings In miro and
nth. Place your nostrils IN proximity 10
an old "tried" pigs hair hotel mattress, an d
thousands Of our best citizens who now
suppose they have the best cuIled hA,r,
(which is names aud tails of horses ami
COWS tails) need but to rip open their ow i,
mattresses to find instead, rs the ease may
be, from ) to 75 per cent. OF short cows
hair tinstead Of horse hair and COWS tail
hair or pig HAIR, or both. Those defect
able ingredients aud authorizations are use
TO an astounding extent in curled hair beds,
which people buy and innocen,ly place di
rec,ly against the human body. Adultera
lions germioatiLg various forms Of disgust,
ing insect life, not excepting bedbugs.-
This much of Ancestry aud pedigree Of
CURED Hair
The trade. however, aside from any actual
Misrepresentation, are not responsible for
this, being actually driven to the use Of
adu!tsratsons, for what person is 80 foolish
as TO suppose that the regular crop Of what
il standard hair, viz J: horse inanes and tails
and COW tail hair, 10 anything like suiii-
oient to meet the enormous consumptive
demand, hence the substitution Of, and
With, cows short hair and pigs'
hair.
Again, Elastic Sponge is slurrei, in said
letter, on the ground Of the infancy Of its
practical application in upholstery. We
pass this, with the simple remark that these
Western States, particularly, and in this
age. are ne. mastered by prejudice, Q. buel
old -fogy-sm. For themselves, they test,
and what has more merit they take and en-
dorsc.
Again, L astic Sponge 10 snssred At as .
enterprise" We infer that thu,
writer has been styling around our sales
rooms, watching our deliveries and ship
ments, and has incorporated into the above
quoted phrase another of his old fogy prih-
ciples, viz: That whatever quickly shows
strength and full life and prosperity, must
quickly decline. He will both see and learn
II he lives and watches
Again he stamps Elastic Sponge new
Ind untried humbug. In full reply, We
may rot only state that it has been largely
used a the east for the year past, and
more, but will also quote the language (af-
Ter elaborate and convincing personal inves-
legations and tests) Of Mr.. X. e. Robbins
Who directly became the largest owner in
The Consolidated Elas'ie Sponge Manufac-
turing companies of New York City and
known in Chicago and the
west ~ principal owner in the great Amer
loan Wsltham Watch Mandatory, ct
Waltham, Mass. Said Nj. Robbins =
Gentlemen, II elastic sponge 10 humbug,
L Is not only bigger humbug than ever
heard Of, but one that l am willing to be
humbugsed by Aud Chieaso's citizens
IRE now daily demonstrating q COR sales
rooms that this 10 precisely their judgment
And % ore nearly every one Of the rai'soad
csotssing here also the carriage
md furniture upholstersrs and hotel
And now, our worried
friend, the writer Of the 'Cusled
Hair" article, in spite Of yoss old-fogyism,
psrssnal iAtefssts, snd ptejudiccs, tho time
. a hand when you are forced, 1t your 10
Isl 70 rsposs on elastic sponge. ride ID on
nibus Or back to the depot sit.iog on elias
tic sponge, and ''railroad il on the elegant
Ipongc coach, else do tie other thing, viz
'tand up in your boots-"you pays your
money and you takes your choics.' And
row, because II never entered your brain
hat anything could ever be discovered
10 man. that would furnish beds always
sweet. clean, repellAnt to bedbugs and eli
insect life, elastic, and every way agreeable to
|hc human body YOU need not Halter yourself
that other people tie themselves up to borse
hair, cows hair, pigs hair. and various
to Put IN contac. with their
3odies,. One word more. and Q have done
sith you. unles again you want TO try your
rand ~ catering away on sponge, foolish
y imagining You are thereby delay ing the
doomed fate Of curlsd hair upholstery, and
hist ID this: The elasticity Of Oh upholstery
lais 10 artificial aud temporary. hence soon
seks, grow ing harder and harder. ..
The elasticity Of sponge Is natural, hence
God-given attribats Of the
Material itself. Yours, Ae.,
WnsrsRN ELAsrIc SroxGs CoNPANr.