| Show WOOL mattresses satt LAKE C atty ITY april 1887 editor deseret ne flat permit me through your columns to draw the attention of the public to what is called wool mat mattresses tresse a extensively imported here from benver denver chicago and california Cali fernia and some rome lew few ib made dhere here fron so called wool imported from either of those plages places these so called wool mattresses weigh from thirty to f forty arty pounds and sell here for five to seven ar or eight dollars according to grade rade now wool in the dirt as it is called called meaning as it is cupped off the sheep is worth from 10 lo 15 to 20 cents ver pep pound it loses in washing from 60 50 to 60 per cent making clean wool worth about 50 60 cents per pound or the wool in ia a forty pound mattress costs about 2 20 0 without tick 0 or ise expense of making and still these mattresses are sold every day for five to eight dollars astonishing is is not the fact is these wool matr mat trusses are not wool but a fraud of the meanest and most despicable kind bringing disease and death to manya many a house household hold when they lay out their money expecting comfort and happiness these mattresses though feeling soft to the touch when new are nothing but old rags many lef them dirty and filthy thrown out of h hospital pital rookeries rook eries f from rom de death th beds and all other kinds of places where rags gather they have not to be cleaned much as they have when made into paper but on the contrary merely thrown into a rag mill and pulled to pieces when they are baled up in sacks and sent ono to mattress makers all over the country labeled as wool bought at from four to seven cents per pound according to grade put into nice new mattresses and sold to the public as wool old dirty rags pshaw I 1 the thought is enough to sicken a man and would you beline it where a house is honest enough to tell fell the truth about this matter people are silly gilly enough to buy the stuff anyway Respectfully yours S |
