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Show USE FOR NEWSPAPERS i 1 i I When the greatest war in history j broke out the Swiss government for-bade for-bade any newspapers going out of the! country, and later the natives wore ' instructed to soak them, folded as they ' come from tho press, over night in I water sufficient to cover. Incidentally lit may bo said that stationary wash tubs arc just right for this. In the morning the papers, still folded, fold-ed, are wrung out as one would wring a towel, until all tho moisture possible is extracted; then these billets of possibly pos-sibly 18 Inches length and as big around as a man's wrist, are laid in the sun or In a warm cellar until perfectly perfect-ly dry, when they look 'like slender logs of gray cory. They serve as candles can-dles for the men In the trenches. |