COTTON 7 



among all sorts and conditions of men, it is of 

 course the chief material used for clothing, but 

 every year more and more of its products are 

 brought to our tables, and it is called upon to feed 

 a steadily increasing number of our flocks and 

 herds. 



You get up in the morning from a bed clothed 

 in cotton; you step out on a cotton rug; you let in 

 the light by raising a cotton window-shade; you 

 wash with soap made partly from cottonseed oil 

 products; you dry your face on a cotton towel; you 

 array yourself chiefly in cotton clothing; the "silk" 

 in which your wife dresses is probably mercerized 

 cotton ; at the breakfast table you do not get away 

 from King Cotton; cottolene has probably taken 

 the place of lard in the biscuit you eat ; the beef and 

 the mutton were probably fattened on cottonseed 

 meal and hulls; your "imported olive oil" is more 

 likely from a Texas cotton farm than from an Ital- 

 ian villa; your "butter" is probably a product of 

 Southern cottonseed; the coal that burns in the fire 

 may have been mined by the light of a cotton-oil 

 lamp; the sheep from which your woolen clothing 

 came were probably fed on cottonseed; the tonic 

 you take may contain an extract of cotton 

 root-bark; the tobacco you smoke not unlikely 

 grew under a cotton cover and is put up in a cotton 

 bag; your morning daily may be printed on cot- 

 ton waste paper and even in that Oriental skir- 

 mish it tells about the contending forces were 

 clothed in khaki duck, slept under cotton tents, cot- 

 ton was an essential in the high explosives which 

 were used, and when at last war had done its worst, 

 surgery itself called cotton into requisition to aid 

 the injured and dying. 



