Show Gov Government Experts Aid Fresh su Water Pearl Button Industry More Than Three Billi Billion n Mussel Shell Buttons Now Annual Output An American Enterprise A SIMPLE rule for ju judging the quality of a ready made garment garment garment gar gar- ment that t e every ry housewife should ulo observe Is the test of the garment by bythe bythe bythe the quality of the button that It curries carries In America a good button weans means a gOUl good garment because you youcan youcan can cun always s 's judge a garment I by the buttons Huns that are on it The Tho housewife housewife house house- wife wit ri IJ eye f f oM n c 7 i 1 more easily select garments of better Letter quality using this simple basis of judgment as ns an on Infallible shopping guide The fresh water pearl button made from flom American river shell hell Is Isone Isone Isone one of the cheapest t things In the to world considering the service that It gives giveR This button which Is in universal use In this Oils country today Is American to the core ore It Is entirely en en- an American product and Invention in in- Ameri American nn machinery Is used wherever pearl buttons are made So Important is the Industry that It Is now fostered by the United States government Every a a assistance assist assist- ance anee is given by the Bureau of Fisheries of the I Department of Commerce Commerce Com Corn merce to render the shell resources of or this country Inexhaustible Secretary Hoover Tell Tells of Industry a Development Herbert Hoover secretary of or the Department of or Commerce who has given Elven a great deal of If his i attention to the fresh water button Industry recently paid fluid The history of the water fresh-water mussel Industry gives nil iU illustration of the promptness with which h an American Ameri Amerl can industry may 1 toe Ie Ac developed eloped once the pathway Is 11 found Undertaken In III a small wa way about thirty years ago the manufacture of ol pearl buttons from nui mussel nel shell l Ill egan e- e gan almost I Immediately to assume the proportions of a 1 national l Industry industry Indus rulus- tr try and coincident with the rise of ol the manufacturing Industry thero there developed an on Important and ami widespread widespread wide wide- spread tI f fishery hery directly employing ln thousands thousand II of persons and nud Indirectly a affecting persons and Of pf various vl y Department o of Commerce t M th r y S f w f Df D- D r reA eA E l 4 a through the Bureau Dureau of Fisheries has maintained an active interest inthe in inthe the development of the fresh water mussel fishery of the United States which in to its Importance ortance and scope lof of territory Is unique In the world world- Mussel She Shell Shelf Button Buttons are Very Fond hond of Water Much of or the popularity of the fresh water pearl button particularly particularly for wll wash h garments is IR R due to the fact t that this button has a positive fondness for tor water Other buttons such as the horn born and bone are soaked 1 to soften the substance in the tho pr process cesa of manufacture but butth th the pearl button is the only button which may many be lie said to be he a native of ot the water The fre fresh li water pearl hearl button likes likE's hot water wlter as well wen as it does VIIi poll Mint sad unlike some other buttons it 1111 never nuter cr curls curia up or cracks crack when Above Power Boat with Barges of Shell Shells on the River Clam Shell Shelf Showing How Fresh Freih Water Pearl Buttons Button are Cut Cub placed In very hot water It Is la because becaMe because be be- cause caMe of or the reputation this button has hall of surviving the tie laundry tub that nearly three billion fresh freshwater freshwater water ht shell U buttons are made In this country countr each year lear Fresh water pearl buttons may b be found on popular priced mens men's business business busi busl- ne ness a shirts work shirts pajamas pajama or knit underwear Childrens Children's rompers romp romp- ers era and any wash wath garment always ca carry rT them |