The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-19
TIN FOIL

Made Nowadays~in Many Attractive Forms and Put to Varied Uses.
 It used to be that tin foil was beaten out, as gold leaf has always been and is today; but about 50 years ago an American invented a machine for roll ing out tin foil that revolutionized the tin foil industry. -. ,ja- .<.-
 The beaten out tin foil had been made and used for many years for wrapping up various things which it was desired to preserve in their orig inal condition. The new process of manufacture, by materially reducing the cost of its production, widely. ex-ff 1, tended the use of tin foil for these purposes of utility. .<rs.
 A little later the American who in- vented the tin foil rolling machine invented machine for embossing tin foil by means of which any desired de- sign or pattern could be used. and pro- cesses were devised for coloring the surface of tin foil in any desired color. So that there came to be produced tin foils that were covered all over with delicately embossed flowers and vines and stars and diamonds and stripes and so on in a great variety of patterns and designs, and foils embossed in innita- tion. of silk and other fabrics, and these prettily embossed foiis were colored in many different delicate and brilliant colors, and made of one color on one side and another color on the other.
 The embossed foils were made also with gold and with silver surfaces, as were likewise foils smooth surfaced. In short, tin foil had now come to be a thing of beauty as we'll as utility. One who had never seen any but the plain smooth tin foil could have but little notion, in fact, of the beauty in which tin foil is now produced,
 And with tin foil produced in such forms it came to be used not only for purposes of utility, but for various us- es in which it would add to the attrac- tiveness of the goods around which it, was wrapped. The thinnest of the colored and ornamental foils are called tissue foils, and they are scarcely if any thicker than tissue paper Tin foils are rolled in an almost endless variety of thickness, foils ranging from 1000 square inches to 1S,000 square inches being made from one pound of metal.
 Besides being used in the wrapping of various sorts of produts sold in packages, tin foil is used for wrapping around bottle necks, and over the heads of some. It is used for wrap ping chocolate and cheeses and candy and chewing gum and for cigars and tobacco. -: ,a..E
 There is an old story of how tin foil helped to make one mans fortune, that of man well known in his day and still well remembered, a tobacconist and tobacco manufacturer. As this story run. Gen. Scott, just then about to depart to take command" of the United States troops. engaged in the war with Mexico, came to this tobac- conist and asked if there were not some, way in which tobacco could be put up for him 50 that it would not dry out and deteriorate in the country to which he was going.
 The tobacco man hit upon the plan. of wrapping the generals tobacco in tin foil wrappers. This plan worked beautifully, and there sprung up for. tobacco wrapped in tin foil great de-. mand, which the tobacco man was prompt to supply. A felicitous and attractive name for the tobacco thus put up, name long familiar, helped to increase the demand for it, and for tune followed. .4>-4a.ss3s
 Chandeliers are wrapped up ill tin foil, in fact there is a special foil in long strips made for this use. Soap is wrapped in tin foil. Voilet colored and prettily embossed tin foil is used for wrapping up the stems of punches of violets, and tin foil of various sorts is wrapped around the stems of bouquets of other flowers. Tin foil finds orna- mental uses at Christmas time.
 A sort of tin foil which, however, is not called foil, but cap metal, is ex- tensively used in the mnufacture of bottle caps, of which there are now