Show Antiquity of the Handkerchief That there was a time when there were no handkerchiefs is as certain as that there was once an epoch when there was an uncreated I created world Thc handkerchief could I not be evolved before the sense of neatness that called it into being for the law of supply sup-ply and demand is as old as the creation For its comparatively modern advent there are sufficient reasons Civilization began in regions where the climate was mild and colds uncommon This was the case in Egypt in Syria in India and about the Mediterranean There has nothing been found on an Egyptian tomb or obelisk that suggests the handkerchief Assyrian monuments monu-ments throw no light on the subject and even in regard to ancient Greece the matter is in doubt But though the fashionables of the old world were required to blow or wipe the nose rarely there were other uses for such spare drapery as they had about their parsons par-sons They perspired freely and wept often either from grief or rage or because the sand of the desert was blown into their eyes What more natural than that tho person who perspired or wept should remove re-move the superfluous moisture with the end or corner of his flowing garments and that in the course of time it should seem to him more neat and proper to have a separate piece of woven fabric for that pmp seSm Francisco Chronicle |