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of such substitutes as fabrics and 

 paper. 



Building Board 



Paper as an article for building 

 purposes is well known in Scandinavia 

 and Japan. In the latter country 

 not long ago a country house was 

 entirely constructed of paper, and in 

 Scandinavia a great quantity of wood 

 pasteboard is used as the lining for 

 wall papers, while in the United 

 States a heavy paper board for use 

 in building operations is also made 

 from waste sugar, sugar cane and 

 corn stalks. In a small mill at Koy- 

 asa, Kanagawa (Japan), waterproof 

 paper is now manufactured for shirt- 

 making. 



Paper string and twine has within 

 recent years come to be recognized 

 as a valuable substitute for the ordin- 

 ary variety. Paper string is now 

 being made of such stoutness that 

 it is suitable for tying up parcels of 

 ciuite a fair size, and its manufacture 

 is now being carried out in this coun- 

 try. Twine has been produced from 

 paper in Germany for some years; 

 the cord is spun from strips of brown 

 or white creped thin cellulose paper, 

 and the few mills making it are said 

 to be unable to meet the demand. 



Paper Umbrellas 



Making artificial flowers from paper 

 is not a new idea, but it is probably 

 not so well known that they are now 

 being made of paper rendered non- 

 inflammable by the moderate use of 

 asbestine. It may also be recalled 

 that a demonstration given in To- 

 ronto a short time ago samples of 

 sections of chandeliers, lamp brack- 

 ets, etc., made from sulphite pulp, 

 which had been subjectecl to a very 

 high pressure and then blown into 

 metal moulds were shown, while 

 paper lamp wicks are said to be now 

 replacing cotton wicks throughout 

 Austria-Hungary. The Japanese sun- 

 shade is, of course, quite a familiar 

 object, but the collapsible and storm- 

 proof paper umbrella, devised for 

 use in emergencies by an ingenious 

 American, has not yet obtained wide 

 favour. Tests, however, are said to 

 have shown that with ordinary care 

 the cover will last for months in 

 heavy rain and strong winds. 



Paper Lamp Chimney 

 Twisted or hardened paper is also 

 being extensively employed at Sheb- 

 oygan, U.S.A., in the manufacture 

 of paper furniture, and bags and 

 trunks of compressed paper are per- 

 haps somewhat better known than 

 the paper jackets for sausages, which 

 have been introduced on the other 

 side of the Atlantic. Vulcanized 

 fibre, which is simply paper treated 

 with zinc chloride, is also being ex- 

 tensively used in the manufacture of 

 tool handles, bobbins, tubes, etc., 

 and paper binder twine, paper win- 

 dow shades, paper matting and paper 

 floor coverings, the latter generally 

 made with an admixture of cotton, 

 are now widely used. Paper insula- 

 tors are, of course, in comparatively 

 common use, but it must be admitted 

 that a paper chimney, of which we 

 have heard, is something of a novelty. 

 Paper cartwheels and paper boats 

 are, however, no longer curiosities, 

 though it is stated that the paper 

 boat is, indeed, a very substantial 

 and serviceable craft. 



The great war has also developed 

 new uses for paper and pulp. It is 

 now well known that Germany is 

 using chemical pulp in place of cotton 

 as a basis for the production of high 

 explosives, and a German military 

 surgeon goes as far as to say that not 

 only cellulose wadding, but mech- 

 anical wood-pulp, wood flour, wood 

 wool and wood felt have done good 

 service as substitutes for cotton in 

 making dressings, while another au- 

 thority states that for \yound secre.- 

 tions, filter and blotting paper serves 

 the purpose admirably. Cellulose 

 wadding is used in dozens of forms as 

 a substitute for cotton, and its em- 

 ployment is stated to be even more 

 advantageous when loosely cotton 

 woven cotton wicks are substituted 

 for closely woven wicks, particularly 

 in spirit and petroleum lamps. There 

 have also been stories of paper boots 

 and paper socks worn by soldiers of 

 the European battlefields, and it is 

 reported that paper beds, with paper 

 sheets and pillow-cases, are now be- 

 ing used in Germany by the poor, the 

 mattresses being made of strong 

 sheets of paper pasted together and 

 filled with drv leaves of beech and 



