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HAT BOXES. 



Common pasteboard hat boxes are made water-proof and 

 very durable, when constructed upon the plan of the paper 

 trunks, before described. 



MUFF BOXES. 



See Chapter VII. 



VALISES. 



The same improvements that have been suggested for band- 

 boxes and trunks are applicable to valises, when they are made 

 either of wood or of pasteboard. 



BAND-BOXES. 



The common pasteboard box is much improved and rendered 

 durable by covering with gum-elastic tissue or vellum. These 

 fabrics may be put on in the usual way with glue or flour paste. 

 The paste being protected from dampness by the coating of 

 gum, it is not necessary to use a more expensive cement. If 

 they are strengthened by a hoop of rattan or tin, covered with 

 the fabric, and placed around the edge of the lid, and also around 

 the rim of the box, as represented, plate , fig. , they are 

 rendered much more durable. Paper boxes, constructed in this 

 way, have been found to last for years. They may be exposed 

 outside in travelling like trunks, and do not require that extra- 

 ordinary care of being carried inside the vehicle, which has 

 always made paper boxes so annoying to travellers. 



The first cost of boxes made in the way here described, is 

 something more than that of paper boxes in common use, but in 



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