The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-08

| women not long ago would have peeh
next o an impossibility The strong,
stiff, but yielding fabric was precisely
!what was needed to make the sleeves
remain in 1.-THE form that fashion de-
creed for them.
In dress Innings, skirt Innings, coat
Innings and in facihgs, paper cloth is
coming more and more into use and Is
giving very good satisfaction GOOD
| looking and very durable hats are MADE
of paper and paper soles and heels lof
boots and shoes of the cheaper grades
have long been in use. When 1t was
said above that rifle barrels We're made
of paper only the literal fact was stat
ed, although the paper rifle is not prac-
| teal for various reasons, among others
| the cost. 1t was MI Whistler, brother,
of the artist, who had the first paper
| rifle barrel made in this country and
although it stood the strain of firing
perfectly. it was made and considered
only as a curiosity Illustrative of paper
possibilities. Water mains made Of pa
| per, however, not only are a practical
possibility but are in actual use. Where
the conditions are such AS to warrant
paper water mans-as, for instance,
where from the nature of the bed in
which they must lie cast iron mains
would speedily oXidize-paper water
mains, costly as they are become
matter of economy and are very gen
orally used. Window panes of paper
likewise are used in cases where there
are such constant vibrations or such
sudden Jars as would break glass. BY
a chemical process paper may be so
translucent that printed page can be
read through it with perfect ease. Put
in a window frame it gives a soft light
sufficient to illuminate a room for near
ly all purposes not requiring a particu-
larry strong light, althoug objects seen
through a paper window pane are seen
as through glass darby.
Waterproofs of paper are made in
considerable numbers. The material
consists of a lining of cloth in the mid
die with a coating of waterproof paper
on both sides and out Of it excellent
ponchos are made, although Uncle Sam
still sticks to the good old India rubber
for his soldiers Nearly all articles
formerly in leather are now made of
paper-.such as suit cases, travelling
bags, ETC., and so successful is the imi-
tation that a man who had himself
been in the paper business for nine
years bought an artivle of this kind in
London recently under the full convic-
ton that it was leather he was purchas-
ing.
Bamboo fibre makes absolutely the
best copying paper there is and the
bamboo paper Is made almost eXclu
sively in Japan. For that reason
simply because they have the raw ma
terial and we have motive buy a great
deal of copying paper in Japan and the
Japanese are great consumers of paper
in their own country in religious cere-
monies, and last year one American
manufacturing concern alone, which
has it's central office here in New York
shipped over one hundred tons of paper
to Canton, China, for use in that way
There is another curious little detail
about the Chinese paper trade, and that
is in the matter of laundry tickets. The
Chinese laundryman, when he gives his
laundry ticket keeps a duplicate of it
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