The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-07-03

You'll be shocked, fear, when I tell
you that your doll came out of a rag
bag, her curls from the back of goat,
and her elegant china tea-set out of
mud-hole. '.7'r.
But what will you say when l tell you
that your jelly is made out of old boots,
and your delightful perfumery from
horrid-smelling coal tar2
You don't own all the made over things
IN the family, either. Johnnie's new
beaver cloth overcoat was worn out on
the back of beggar, and perhaps even
played the part of scare-crow in some
farmyard, before it began TO come up in
the world again; and the "table-gela-
tine" which every one of the family
likes to eat, once did duty as skin on the
back of q rat.
1t is really wonderful to trace things
back, and see where they come from,
and which has reason to boast of his an
cestors. Queer stories you would hear
If the things around you could tell
their history. There's your tatting-
shuttle. 1t once made itself useful as
bone in horse, while the ivory dice
IN the backgammon board adorned the
jaws and crushed the oats of another of
the race.
The pearl of your paper knife lined
the shell house of q. modest little crea.
ture at the bottom of the sea. while
mammals shell comb was the comfort
able roof over a sea tortoise.
Your guitar strings were indispensable
to the eternal comfort of some poor
pussy or unfortunate sheep, and your
piano would be but dumb wooden box
without some of the same internal al
rangements of horse.
Your nice hair brush first saw the
light on the skin of hog. The crinoline
that stiffens the bottoms of ladies' Dress
es was used originally to switch the flies
from the backs OF hors es, and the mat.
tress on which you sic ep so comfortably
served the same use be fore it fell into
the manufacturers hands.
Your dainty toilet soap-dear me, how
can tell youl--was made of dead cats
and dogs found in the streets, and the
"bitter almonds" which so delightfully."-
flavor your candy, came from the horri
ble-smelling coal tar, while the choicest
ale is deliciously favored with-putrid
cheese.
The scent bags OF that offensive ami
NAL, the skunk, furnish some desirable
additions to the toilet table, used for re-
moving freckles and tan, aud the dread
full stuff left in drains is turned into ,
fashionable toilet article, and adorns th,
face of ladies'.
To be sure, these disagreeable mater
ials lave some pretty rough handling
before they come out in their new colors
The old boots, for instance. They d,
not step from the.gutter into the jell,
kettle, by any means. They go through
long process of washing and soaking
in I've, and smoking with sulphur, ant
steaming and boiling, before they com,
out white and delicate and fit for th,
table.
The coal tar to grow into perfumer,
goes through the hands of chemists
who treat it to don't know what dread
full chemical processes; and the deat
cats and dogs are boiled to extract th,
grease, purified, whitened and perfumec
before we see them as soap.
The doll whose ancestors inhabited
ragman's den, endured unheard of oper
ations of washing, soaking, bleaching
chopping, moulding and so forth, befor,
she took her place in the nursery t,
amuse the little folks, and the clay from
the mud-hole was washed, and purified
and whitened, and kneaded, and baket
and glazed, before it ventured to call it