The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-05-01
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You'll be shocked I fear, says Oliver
/ ThOrne, in the Home C0DlparuOn, when
I tell you that your doll came out of a
| rag bag, her CUrls from the back of a
/ goat, and her elegant china tea-set out
| of mud hole.
I But what will you say when I tell you
| that your jelly is made out of old boots,
and your delightful perfumery from
| Notwithstanding -COaltaE.
4 You don't own all the made-over
/ things in the fImiiy5 either Johnnie's
new Deaver-clOth Over-coat was worn
out on the back of a beggar, and per-
| haps even played the part Of a scare
l crow in some farm yard before it begaI
to come into the world again and the
table gelatine" which every one of
( the family loves to eat once did duty as
skin on the back of a rat.
It is really wonderful to trace things
back, and see where they come from,
and which has reason to boast of its 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 a bone in
horse. while the ivory dice in your back
CANNON 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 creae
ture at the bottom OF the sea, while
mammals shell comb was the cOmfOrta-
bic roof over a sea tortoise.
Your guitar strings were indispens-
able to the internal comfort of some
poor pussy or unfortunate sheep, and
your piano would be but dumb wooden
box without some Of the internal az
rangements of a horse.
Your nice hair brush first saw the
light on the skin of dog. The CrinO-
line that stiffens the bottom of ladies'
dresses was used originally to switch
the flies from the backs of horses, and
the mattress on which You sleep so com
fortably served the same use before it
fell into the manufacturers hands.
Your dainty toilet sOap-dear me,
how can I tell yOU-Was made of dead
cats and dogs, found in the streets, and
The "bitter almonds" which so delight
Tully favors your candy, came from the
horrible smelling coal tar.
The sCent-bags of that offensive ami
NAL, the skunk, furnish some desirable
additions to the tOilet-table, used for
removing freekles, and tan and the
dreadful stuff left IN drains is turned
into a fashionable toilet article, and
adOrns the face of the ladies.
To be sure, these disagTeeable mater
rials have some pretty tough handling
before they come out in their new colors.
The old boots, for instance. They do
not step from the gutter into the Jelly
kettle by any means. They 60 through
a long process of washing and soaking
IN I've and smoking with sulphur, and
steaming and boiling before they come
out white and delicate and fit for the
table.
The coal tar, TO grow into -perfumeTy,
goes through the hands of chemists,
who treat it to I don't know what dread
ful process; and the dead cats and dogs
are boiled to extract the grease, purified,
Whitened and peTfUmed before we see
them as soap.
The doll whose ancestors inhabit a
Fagmanis den endured unheaFd of op-
CTations of washing, soaking, bleaching,
chOpping, mOlding, and so forth, before |
she took her place in the nursery to
amuse the little folks and the clay from
the mud hole was washed, and purified,
and Whitened, and kneaded, and baked
and glazed, bOfore it Ventured to call
itself china, and take its place on the
tea-table. .
The horse-tails that stiffen the dresses
and stuff our mattresses are washed and /
soaked and boiled and baked before we !
use them: and the intestines, which
make the voice of guitar and piano,
went through long processes of scraping,
soaking in lye and washing, before they /
were drawn ont into the fine, tough !
strings with which you are familiar.
Nearly all the things we throw away
in alleys, or even through our drains,
the most disgusting things you can think !
of, are valuable, and, after going through |
the hands of skillful workmen, come out |
in new shapes, and have new fields
of usefulness.
The feats of old-fashioned fairies, who !
turned pumpkins into carriages, and
shabby cid gowns into elegant robes, do /
not compare with the wonders per- |
formed in our workshops, by rough |
looking men, in shirt sleeves and white
aprons E