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Show I Before the Age of Buttons. Persons who read much of historic romance cannot fall to recognize tho request, "Truss my points," which has been used by every writer of English from the tlmo of Chaucer. Porhaps everyone who read tho ' phraso did not know that It meant, In common parlance, "raco up 'jny clothes," but that Is what It did mean, and the reason It ceased to bo used In actual conversation resulted from tho Invention of' the button and tho passing away of the custom ot fastening fasten-ing tbo clothes by lacing. |