Show Adulterated Dresses Public attention is being directed to the wholesale manner in which the materials that keep us warm during the day and the blankets which cover over us at night are adulterated The silk dress of the lady of a bundred hundred hundred hun bun dred years ago rustled as she moved on account of the genuineness of the fabric now it rustles with 36 per cent of salts of tin used to commercialize it The lady of the period in her silk dress dress' is indeed a sort of woman in armor Epsom salts sails instead of being used or medicinal purposes as formerly arenoW are arenow arenow now e employed it would appear for loading flannel The so called so-called called table linen of today Is not pure linen such as delighted the hearts of the housewives housewives house house- wives of olden times but is made mado largely of cotton filled with china clay clay- and anti starch So too collars are often of cotton merely faced with linen In a word nearly every kind of fabric sold is adulterated in some form or other and nod the public In blissful Ignorance ignorance ance of the truth finding how poorly the things wear lays the blame upon the laundryman the dyer or the V cleaner instead of upon the real culprit culprit cul cul- the manufacturer It is believed that there is some danger danger dan dan- ger of the skin being attacked by disease as a n result of the really poison polson poisonous ous ens substances which are set free bythe by bythe bythe the action of perspiration upon the metallic me me- tame taBle compounds contained In apparently apparently apparently innocent wearing apparel |