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Show MAKING CHRISTMAS TINSEL. Tinsel Is one of the few Christmas tree ornaments manufactured in the United States, for Germany is the home of tho Christmas tree decoration, decora-tion, and even the raw matorlal used In the manufacture Is Imported from that country. It consists of spools of wire almost as thin as sewing silk and is purchased by tho pound, a duty of 5 conts per pound being levied by the United States customs. Last year ono Christmas-tree ornament factory in Baltimore imported tfO.OOO pountis of tinsel wire This factory conductB the largest tinsel making buBiness in the United Stated and has an entiro floor of a big building taken up by the garland-making machines, which turn out thousands of yards of glittering glit-tering tree decorations. The work goes on continuously throughout the year, and several hundred people are employed. Mrs. R. C. Miller in Leslie's. |