The Washington herald., 1911-12-13
Great Progress in the
Last Quarter Gen.
tury by Local Firm
Has Placed0H in
the Forefront of the
Paper Trade.
6ET HE wonderful paper age"
1t is no longer fiction.

Wncn InlS dSe-OlQ asset OF ClNlIlZdIlOI
has become predominant among the
articles in everyday use-is at hand
For quarter of century it has slowly
-resistlessly come upon the world, super
seding cloth, wood, and even steel, and
so gradually has it enveloped them thai
most persons were not aware of the
changes that were taking place.
Example of Paper Age.
The House of Andrews, more gen.
orally known as the R. P. Andrews
i Paper Company, stands to-day as Z
live example of the wonderful paper
age 1t is a place where you find any
thing, everything from tablecloths to
.+natches-and of paper.
And Mr.. Andrews, though he is
president of the company and knows
the possibilities of paper from years
and years of study, is unable to pro-
phesy completely as to the future of the
age of paper. He says that the dearest
dreams of fiction writers-the imagi-
nation of Hall Caine-can scarcely sur
pass what science and ingenuity will
accomplish in the next decade.
Paper, Paper Everywhere.
For a moment let US consider day
in the life of man who has become
converted to the idea of the age.
At sun-up he arises from his bed
and throws aside the paper blankets
which covered him during the night.
He strolls to his morning tub carrying
over his arm towel of paper. The
towel tossed aside, he goes to break
fast and sips his coffee from a paper
cup.
Then, donning an overcoat which is
lined with paper, he goes to work. No
matter what his line of work be, he
will find more use for paper during
the day. The carpenter must have his
plans, the architect his drawings, the
LAWYER his books, and the doctor his
prescription tablet.
More Use for Paper.
When the days work is done, the
Everyday Citizen of the age of paper
buys his newspaper and goes home to
dinner. His roast is prepared for him
in a paper bag and eaten from a paper
plate that rests upon a paper table
cloth. The smudge of gravy upon his
vest he wipes away with paper nap
kin. Then his cigar is brought him,
sealed in oiled paper and lying on a
paper tray. This is lighted from a
paper match. Finally comes bed, and
the man, removing his shoes, put on a
pair of paper slippers.
About the only thing that paper
hasn't done is to become staple ar
ticle of diet. Man at the present time
wears it, plays with it, works with it;
eats from it, lights his fires and drinks
his liquids from it, and is conveyed
from city to city by it-for the crushed
paper wheel has begun to supplant the
steel on our modern Pullman cars.
Drop into the House of Andrews
some afternoon and listen to some of
the orders that you hear. 1t sounds
like a list of articles kept by a cross
roads store rather than a big business
house that specializes on only one
thing.
Gets Lace Doilies.
Let me have some of those lace
doilies," says little lady, and promptly
she receives some lacy, fragile orna-
ments which it seems impossible could
have been evolved from anything but
fine linen threads.
I'll take two dozen pencils" says a
heavy gentleman who has just come in.
He gets them, too. Not cedar pencils,
but the new-fashioned, seIf-sharpening
paper pencils.
Just then the telephone rings and a
clerks takes an order from a third
customer.
ZONES, the tailor, wants five yards
of that special lining for automobile
coats" he announced.
And there comes a fourth customer.
Let me have two double blankets"
he requests. "My others were getting
old and | tore them up"
And thus it goes. Blankets, lining,
pencils, and slippers-untiI one fairly
forgets that there is such a thing as
plain stationery in the world. But it !
isn't the paper that the average man
has in mind 1t is specially prepared
paper, all Of it which is adapted to its
particular use through some character.
istie of the fiber.
In the face of all this, it does not
seem strange that Mr.. Andrews should
claim for paper the same quality that |