Deseret Evening News | 1890-02-15 | Page 3 | Tests for Underwear

TwU tit tjadefitef A new method of testing woolen earments I by putting caustic coda Into a cup Qr water and dipping DIB article whose cenulnents is doubt fcdjillU tile jhiitufej of cour ° o being carrt1l bbtto tol htbl imi1tili Tub U IfW ill cjtlirkly eat 4H irnaj fibers kit ddlcl5 effect upon those of vegetable origin ulfn Jo article Is all wool It will dissolved In the liquid leaving nothing but a track of coloring matter I the material 1 cotton it comes out unscathed When the material is wool supported by a framework of cotton the latter being be-ing distinguishable to the eye or by ordinary kt the caustic soda quickly divorces the two dissolves the wool andleaws the cotton as clean as If It had been woven by I eelf Aew fcrl Joist