YOUR SUMMER ENCAMPMENT 



making. Here you can see a blanket seven or eight 

 feet wide and one hundred and fifty feet long 

 the very kind of blanket which perhaps you have 

 dreamed about in some cold winter camp. This is 

 the very best wool weave that money will buy. 



In the course of time these great fabrics become 

 stained and dirty from the pulp. Once it was the 

 custom to discard them altogether and send them 

 to the scrap heap. Now these great strips, in 

 most of the big paper mills, are regarded as salvage, 

 if not as by-products. When they begin to get old 

 and stiff they are taken out and sent to the fulling- 

 mills. Here they are washed clean and fulled out 

 light and fluffy once more. After these treatments 

 they make as good blankets as you can buy. They 

 are cut into lengths and bound and offered for sale 

 at fifty cents a pound less than half what you 

 usually pay for rough blankets, and less than a quar- 

 ter of what you would pay for fine lamb's-wool 

 blankets, sometimes taken from lambs which had 

 apparently been running in cotton fields where some 

 of the cotton jarred off. , 



Having in mind one more camp bed for private 

 consumption, I accumulated from the paper mill 

 above mentioned two heavy blankets, almost like 

 rugs in thickness, and five pairs of soft, fleecy 

 lamb's-wool blankets, soft as down. Alas ! A friend 



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