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CHAPTER lY. 



HOUSE, SHIP, AND CAMP WARE AND UTENSILS. 



Clothes brushes. Portable bx-ushes. Scrubs. Hand scrubs. Covered bottles and phials. 

 Covered demijohns. Wash-boards. Sieves. Screens. Tunnels. Bellows. Ice-water tanks. 

 Wood carriers. Muff bags. Muff boxes. Door mats. Table mats. Coffee-pot and urn 

 strainers. Pans and dishes. Tea and coffee sets. Improved preserve jars. Flower-pots and 

 vases. Flower sacks. Ewer and wash bowls. Pitchers and tumblers. Water buckets. 

 Portable water buckets. Fire buckets. Portable fire buckets. Wash tubs. Portable wash 

 tubs. Baskets. Portable baskets. Dish baskets. Market and fish baskets. Coal hods. Table 

 cutlery. Pocket cutlery. Furniture. Improved brushes. Elastic brushes. Paste bag. 



These articles are made of the different fabrics and wares ; 

 wiien required, tliey are stayed in various ways with iron or 

 wood, in order to render them more or less portable, or give them 

 a greater or less degree of stiffness. It may be stated in respect 

 to a great variety, if not all articles of this kind which are not 

 to be brought in contact with fire, that in many cases they pos- 

 sess peculiar advantages over either earthen, wood, or metal, es- 

 pecially for ships' and camp use ; and, although for some time to 

 come their first cost must be greater than that of wood or 

 earthen, yet, when properly made, they will be found, in conse- 

 quence of their durability, in comparison with other things, not 

 to he expensive. Descriptions and drawings of only a few of 

 these articles are here given. The recent introduction of sponge 

 and the hard compounds among the fabrics, bids fair to extend 

 this chapter almost indefinitely, if there is ever an attempt to 

 enumerate all the articles of this kind that may be made of them 

 to advantage. 



CLOTHES BRUSHES. 



These are constructed of elastic sponge, of various forms and 

 patterns, either fastened upon a wooden or caoutchouc ivory 



