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that the color effects of the modern dress seemed to be in gene

with the whole nation given over to wearing these delicate schemes of color, the accounts for washing must be pretty

to laughing. "Doubtless we could not do much else if we wash

h them!-

ear clothes again after they have be

I am no longer capable of being surprised at anything; but perhaps you

it goes back to the mills to

llect, throwing away clothing would se

at do you suppose, now, t

to pay dressmaker's bills for, but I should

twenty cents," said Edith. "Wh

of her mantle be

en," I replied, "but I see it is n

cess than material that I had in mind. This is not a textile fabric at

on to rain on these paper clothes? Would they not

e. For storm-garments we have a paper that is absolutely impervious to moisture on the outer surface. As to toughness, I think you woul

need warmth, you must have to fal

makes a garment quite as warm as woolen could, and vastly lighter than the clothes you had. N

t tell me that they have

and over again would be quite intolerable. For this reason, while we want beautiful garments, we distinctly do not want durable ones. In your day, it seems, even worse than the practice of washing garments to be used again you were in the habit of keeping your outer garments without washing at all, not only day after day, but week after week, year after year, sometimes whole lifetimes, when they were special

gh I perceive that that was the only radical solution. 'Warranted to wear and wash' used to be the advertisement of our

how it would wear before we throw it away, any more than the other fabri

they are paper-made

h air or water instead of feathers. It is more than I can understand how you ever endured your musty, fusty, dusty rooms with the filth and disease germs of whole generations stored in the woolen and hair fabrics that furnished them. When we clean out a room we turn the hose on ceiling, walls, and floor. There is nothin

y trim foot by way of attracting attention to i

ey also are made of

cour

tness in foot wear is the first necessity. Scamp shoemakers used to put paper soles in shoes in my day. It is evident that instead of prosecutin

lutions which will make

hese shoes le

ll are seamless, and the wet-weather sort are coat

ubbers too as articles of wear

r. Our waterproof paper is much

to believe that your hats a

dgear that made your men bald ours would not endure. We want as

ious articles of food which come by the pneumatic carrier from the restaurant or ar

ms to have been a sort of running accompaniment to housekeeping in your day, is no more heard in the land. Our dishes and kettles for eating or cooking, when they need cleaning a

e will still burn, I fancy, although you seem to

ur vessels from without but from within, and the consequence is that we do our cooking in paper vessels on wooden stoves, even as the sava

ts of modern novelties about as far as it would be prudent to try it without furnishing some further evidence of the truth of the sta