The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-03-09
NEW KINDS OF CLOTHS.
WOOL BLANKETS THAT NEVER SAW
A, SLEEPS BACK

Iron Cloth Manufactured by a New Process
From Steel Wool Collars Made of Un.
tanned Leather Boiled in Oil-BIotting
Paper Bath Robes.
This Winter you will be able to keep
warm under soft, light white blankets
made from wool which never saw
sleeps back. And IL you smoke in
bed and drop sparks upon your new
blanket, they will not burn hole.
This new wool is made in an cleo
trio furnace, kept at heat so great
that the limestone fed into it drops
away like water. A chemical is mixed
with the molten stone, and then the
white-hot liquid passes under furious
air-blast, and comes out at the other
side as fluffy white wool. An over
coat made of limestone-wool would be
washed by placing it for an hour or
so In the kitchen range.
Thick as mule hide is, 1t is flexible,
tough, and will stand tremendous
wear. 1t Is made into fingerless nit
tens, which are worn by thousands Of
quarrymen and drivers Of engines and
motors.
A bird of paradise that never was
Matched, nor ever flew, may now deco
rate lady's hat. Art has come to the
help of the societies for the preserva-
tion of birds. Hummingbirds, toucans,
sunbirds, or birds of paradise, with
cleaning, iridescent plumage perfect
in shape and size, are now made of
nothing but chicken feathers and coal
tar dyes. Their manufacture resem-
bles that of tying artificial flies for
fishing.
Marechal Mel roes, Eucharis lilies,
peoples, and violets, every lovely flow
er that ever bloomed on a lady's hat,
no longer owe their beauty to the many
dozens Of different and-some Of them
expensive stuffs employed. They
are all manufactured Of nothing but
wire and goose feathers. The process
is the invention of Miss Prudence dc
| Witt, who employs over a hundred
hands in her flower factory.
! You may turn yourself into a hui
man magnet by having your coat lin
ing stiffened with iron-cloth. Iron
cloth is manufactured by new process
from steel-wool. 1t is exceedingly use
full for making the shoulders and col
lars of coats set properly. 1t look:
as If it were woven from horsehair
but is much cheaper. The roughel
qualities of steel-wool are Of grea
use in polishing wood.
The boots you bought as porpois'
hide were never cut from the hide Of :
porpoise, but OF white whale. Boot
made from the hides Of sea-elephant
killed in the Kerguelen Islands, ant
tanned in England, are now gainin:
popularity.
Without being a scalp-hunting REL
Indian, it is still quite possible to wea
human hair as an adornment. Their
has lately been a great revival in tn
point de tresse lace, which is mad
from human hair mixed with fine fla.
thread. This lace is very valuable
especially if made Of gray. hair. 1t
usual price Is EGO yard.
Golden-brown silk gloves may b
bought which never saw the cocoon O
silkworm. The material from whic
they are woven came from under th
waters Of the Mediterranean. 1t is tn
thread which the pima, a kind @
mussel, produces to bind itself dow
to the rocks.
The fourth generation Of collars
with us. First came linen, then pape
then celluloid. The latest is a cola
of untanned leather boiled in oil.
resembles celluloid, but has one grea
advantage. 1t does not go off with
flare when a match comes near 1t. TIL
name of this collar is the "Marloid."
Blotting-paper bathrobes look liz
those made Of cotton cloth, but al
rapidly superseding the latter. The
are made of paper treated by a ne
process. are very pretty in color, an
; act as bathrobe and towel bot
Besides, the material that COMPOSE
them is so poor a conductor of he;
that you may wander down any di
; lance of draughty passages, wrappe
in your paper bathrobe, and never tai
cold.
Fishskin is the principal ingrediel
in the manufacture of the shining pea
necklaces now so popular They are
no means cheap, as the difficulty
making the imitation pearls to mate
is almost as great as that of matchiI
the genuine gems. Venetian pearls, tt
finest imitation ever made, are no
almost as valuable as real pearls, Fl
!, the secret of their manufacture dit
, five years ago with their inventor,
Frenchman. Venetian pearls are
Q hard that they can be stepped upt
. without injury.-Answers
: How Chinese Coolies Get Free Burial
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