Show THE TRADE IN OlD CldTHES How they are Assorted and Beas iortedMaking into Shoddy The trade in old clothes in Chicago J Chi-cago is considerable over 260000 being paid for < old clo annually When bought by the dealer they are graded pants that have been oftener sat than upon trod upon are put in one heap and coats that are glazy and out at the elbows put along with them Suits are then made up and repairing when possi ble set about Little else is done with clothes of this description and they re sold to the very poor J I If you are introduced or make the necessary deposit you may now bl ssoja out for one night only as one of the uper ten clawhaiimer ani all complete for the small snm of 82 Od hats are ironed and re lined and in most cases sold as new the trade In secondhand hats being almost nil The old clothes trade in this coun try I however is not nearly as brisk I as it is on the other side as there is noi the same market Tnat for England is the colonies and the islands of the South Pacific I Thousands of eases of old cbtots are every year exported from England to India Japan and Ceylon In the hill districts of India a coolie has to wear something warmer than in the low country and although he cannot can-not bear a leg covering ne hat alt 1 ways an old coat on It is ludicroos 1 sometimes to see a coolie without a stitch of clothing on except a claw hammer coat and a plug hat Tne South Sea Islands have lately been a great factor In the old clo trade Whenever a heathen is converted the first thing he is taught to be lieva is that it Is wrong to go naked and as when a chief is converted the whole tribe generally follow suit there is often a great dearth of old elothes The Jews are the chief if not the only dealers in old clothes and they owe a good deal to the Christians in this respect as without the missionaries mis-sionaries the heathen would still be going about in the state of our first parents Last year there was some trade between Chicago and San Francisco and Japan in od clothe about ISO i cases being shipped Ever since the Japs imbibed a taste for western civil zatiou they have been great in European clothes When the di cease first broke out the streets of Yokohama more nearly resembled a street where a fancy dress ball as dispersing than anything else The stores of all the old clothes dealers in Europe and America were put under requisition to supply Japan and loatumes of the days of the pilgrim Fathers were common in the streets Cl thes that are too old and soiled a old sock and underwear fare all of use Along witu old paper they are sent to the mill to be made into paper and old clothes can be remade re-made into shoddy In point of factr most of the this style for 87 is made out of tbis materla1 Lately chemistry has shown us how to make the most delicious perfumes out of the refuse of the cow noose and there Is really nothing that we throw away as waste but what is turned Into useful purposes and enriches en-riches others I |