The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-26
PAPER HAS MANY USES.
II Enters into the Composition of
Almost Everything.

From the Philadelphia Times.
This is the age of paper. Everything is
made of paper nowadays, from the wheels
of railroad cars to costumes for fancy
dress parties, and from bonbonieres to
underclothing. This last is a recent hy-
gienic fad, favored by doctors, and a late
ly Incorporated company expects to get
wealthy by supplying invalids and delicate
persons with undergarments made of fine
paper. The product of their ingenuity
is said to be as light as paper, as warm
or warmer than wool. and as flexible as
the finest silk. At present 1t is not in the
market, and the experiments made so
far have proved that it will be costly at
first, but the projectors of the scheme
are convinced that in a short time ii will
be both commonplace and cheap.
Many an Irish peasant has profited by
the knowledge that a piece of old paper
makes Just as good a chest protector as
a silk-covered chamoise skin; street car
men, teamsters and tramps all know the
value of a thin sheet OF paper wrapped
around the feet in cold weather. Ice men
and trained nurses have long since learn
ed that paper wrapper around the outside
OF the rubber sheet which contains a lump
of ice will exclude the air better
than blanket, and the worth of paper as
a bed covering has been demonstrated in
almost every hospital in the country. Sew
eral charitable women In Chicago regu-
larly make paper-lined quilts in the SUM
mer to be given to poor families at the
approach of winter, and in many private
families paper is quilted between the lin
ings of Comforts and counterpanes.
Turning from abe useful. ordinary.
everyday kind of paper, contemplate from
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mental varieties, which furnish plenty Of
new women and not a few men with,
good livelihood, three kinds are found
the plain tissue, or kite paper, as 1t was
called few years ago, the crinkled. or
crepe variety and the French tissue, or
flower" paper. The first and last men
toned kinds can be had in all possible
and probable shades, to say nothing of
plaids, checks, etc, but the crinkled is
limited to black, white and the more ar
tistic shades ard tintings.
To have bed room or parlor papered
with tinted crepe paper is the latest fad
in the furnishing of country houses and
summer cottages. They have paper bed
clothing paper cushions on the rattan
chairs, paper draperies and window cur
tains, liable of papier mache covered with
a crinkled paper scarf, paper shades on
the paper-decorated lamps, chandeliers or
candelabra, paper panels upon the paper
paper-covered vases holding paper flowers,
and If the owner Of all this beauty is a
faddist, a paper gown TO lounge in. A
Chicago firm has just finished a cottage a I
Newport in this style and the boulder
Of the house mistress is done In rose pink |
paper, each panel OF wall. ceiling, or door |
being gathered in the center under an
American Beauty rose. which might be |
alive, so perfect are all the details, even /
to the perfume in its folded heart. The I
carpet Is Of paper In corresponding /
shade, the Turkish lounge Is upholstered /
in the same fashion. and the lady herself /
looks, when IN the room, like a gigantic /
rose The skirt OF her gown Is composed 1
OF lounces OF the shaded RULED paper. 4
topped of with a oaiyx Of green paper
The fun bodice is drawn into bertha Of
the green, and the sleeves are made Of
succession Of Immense rose petals Porch
es. vide. sunny halls. and dark solemn
Libraries are an finished viii paper. and
pretty ana artistic lounging coats and