Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-09-09
GRASS TO SILK.
interesting Evolution in Cloth
Seen at the Fair.
One Extreme Is Observed in the
0ahomey Village.
AsetAer Coming irsn the lssn In ns
ehiasy Mali.

| WORLDS FAIR. Sept. q - tSpeciail -
f,volu'ion is the keywora Of today's phil
sophy and here is the place to study it.
fere we see how one invention which
He'd a long-felt wan, straigh,way created
Two more wants and set many more In
lentors to work. Thus the pressure OF
| ewiy created wants Is ever forcing man
long, and yet at any point In his progress
asre IS a tendency to slip and receae.
Ind how easily they do slip. When
vas in Arizona l often remarked that
vhile it took forty years to civilize al In
ian, well disposed white man could go
lid in six months. Since my five weeks
iere beg leave to add that while, accord
ng TO Darwin, it took q, 600 generations
!or the monkey to make a man Of himself,
= man can make monkey Of himself in
twenty minutes on three fingers Of Chi
,ago whisky. II is SO much easier to slide
than climb.
In the Live Stock pavilion yesterday
heard q very animated discussion between
some Illinois grangers on the question,
'Do hogs payt" In this vicinity they
don't. 1t is the rest of us who pay the
hogs and II things get much higher /
3han't be able to stay. Down town they
have been having what the Oregon In
iisns call ''hyas tie" over the suffer
ngs Of the unemployed, and Henry
George. DR.. MeGlynn. Bishop Fallows,
and many other eminent men and several
talented women have told the sufferers
why they suffer. Now If these landlords
and other builders have paid for two years
past any such wages as they swear to.
then with any sort Of economy no laborer
ought to suffer In three or four months Of
idleness. had got exasperated over va
rious petty swindles and determined to
Interview one landlord and get my re-
venge by reporting him with unscrupul-
Gus accuracy. So ! fired ct him these
eonundrums:
"Why is the cost Of living SO much
higher In Chicago than in New York, Gin
cinnati, St. Louis or indianapolis! Why
Is the price of bread as high as it was in
1854 when -four is only one-third rs high'
Why does the farmer have to sell his stuff
for one half wha, he did few years ago
and then pay third more for what he
eats of it when he comes 10 the city, and
why does this keep on getting more soi
And finally, why Is it that with all these
gains you fellows are all hard run and
about every third one Of you in the sher-
ifs hands'" pointing as spoke TO a pile
Of furniture on the sidewalk square
away, the Last seizure Of the eyer-active
bailiffs.
'It's as simple as fallin' off a log" re-
piled mine host, who is an Indiana man.
'It costs as much to get out q loaf Of
bread as it did in 1854 and it costs a coed
deal more 20 run hotel. 1t all goes in
rent, taxes and wages. l pay as much
rent for this ramshackie concern Of wood
and plaster as they used to pay on Hunts
hotel in Cincinnati. And then the insur-
ance-O, Jerusalem! They never can get
il high enough to suit 'em. But you see
Yourself that IL fire ever starts about here
he whole block goes. The other day
fou saw it in the papcrs-a little girl
,tarted a fire In the backyard and burnt
Up twenty-five acres of buildings in South
chicago. Five dollars week is the very
east You can get the poorest kind OF girl
or and what they pay for good ones dom
NOW, for | can't get any. The bakers
nake next to nothing on bread for the
anne reasons. All last year and this
pring common labor was 40 cents an
iour-paid it right on this street fof
hoveliu' dirt Carpenters got twice that
md So on. Now the buildings are fin
she'd and right away there is su.ferin'.
yell, we'd be the next ones to suffer il we
lidn't charge sou fellows 10 correspond.
Now here's state of affairs. Talented
women AZ the lake froat meetiugste how
hc poor girls ere driven To evi. by want,
md 80, go families complain that they can
rot ret domestic help at any price. Wages
ire SO high that landlords can't make any
money and laborers are in such straits
hat we have already Lad two riots. The
armers complain of falling prices f0I
heir stuff and 10 the city it is 90 high tina;
n lea Of satisfying our appetite we have
o tighten orr belts az we did In the army.
surely somebody is lying. Or am ha0
con0missf At any rae the problemis is toc
inch for ne .eel it--and right here
iYe-but tae plilosnpav OF 1t eludea me-.
After tbCss preliminary remarks, the
application ot which ] trust the reader tc
ind, ict Us e. IN the Machinery building
md instc9d q t"c1gisOtae walks and talk
,et rs trace tbs evolution Of lust org Erti
.!e .LTough m tIe aceH Of gaau. tEt Us
axe clothing lracdGsc il Il SO beautifully
illustrated and the machinery is compare
lively simple. The looms run ike Light
,inc and f51l7. o-st fabrics at ? surprising
peed, still q common 3aAn can see how
hey rrt. evsa il 5e has no wheels IL hi'
iead. I}ut tJ race q s1it Of clothes from
he veTJ sta-t nc n.t;st go over and begin
i the Ant a1op0Iogicsl department. There
Is clearly shown that tie hrrt EIothes
yrerc mace of leaves, grass, bark and roots
lr rushes. ~ coarse prinieyal man lived
Il quEdrirraHGus innocence IS the All
mails Do. but with the growth Of domestic
rider came a dBwniag sense Of shame az
70 tie sources Of life and 50 a grazs Of
other vegetable stiit about the size o. your
Two hands was invented for Eo,iesty'a
sake.
As refinement increased the suit grad
ually exten .ie,i towards the head aul the
.eet. e~en in ct countries and In su1IEHer
while IN c1ld countries the skis Il ami
mails were used Is soGT as man learncd
how to get then. All this is beautifully
Illustrate in earrings. pictures and o;her
1~iss in tho ADt8ropOlogical exhibit, eac
Iowa in the pIai-ance oac can s,llI see ihe
y
ner suit Of grass. That clothing bega, il
the sentiment mentioned isfurther proved
BY the fact tkat among the rut.er raess
;hiidren sill 80 naked till the sense Of
hame develops in then-
The coat Of skis was a rather elaborate
Affair, as the relirz show, and there VIA
Jne suit made ot thick bark, Pounded till
It became flexible, which vas almost
pretty. From wearing sheep skins 70
wearing the wool osly WIS q natural nn :.
easy step, and they first twisted 1t Tito
very eD1-se strands ard kaottsd theia 20
getner as fancy or nc1cs8ity dictated. Of
soGrse these strands were twisted finer
and finer rs man progressed and were put
together by the system Of Overland untieE
replication, ana 50 spinning and weaving
came into existence, And here are shown
zone of those extremely primitive looms,
such a. are still used By the hill people u
India, the Navajo women AID others-
nothinzin such loom apparently bFi. a
beam fastened In tic hranehes Of lev
tree, another beam s.aked fa5. 70 the
ground and to each b ioogs beam attached
at the erds with cords, the strands Of wool
running over these last. How very rude
and primitive they look Yet on sach q
loom have seen a Navajo woman weaye
with wonderful skill, producing red nnd
yellow flowers with coiored yarns, making
blanket Of such firm texture thst water
could be carried in Il.
Much more rapid was the advance in
making linen, for nations of Gner taste
took Il up and the advance In silk was
probably more rapad still as taste stimu-
lated invention Hence the "Babyloplsh
garment" and all the wonderful stufYs Of
Tyre and India. Bet silk was not pro-