NOVEL UNDERCLOTHING.

Kumara Times, Issue 1096, 5 April 1880, Page 3

NOVEL UNDERCLOTHING.

Wo learn from Berlin that an invention has been recently patented in thb German capital for the production of a now kind of cloth, winch consists principally or entirely of sponge. The sponges are first thoroughly beaten with a heavy hammer in order to crush all the mineral and vegetable impurities, so that they can be easily washed out. They are then dried and pared, like a potato, with a sharp knife, the parings being sowed together. The fabric thus obtained is free from all the danger which sometimes arises from the absorption of poisonous dyes into the system; it absorbs without checking the perspiration, sc as to diminish the danger of taking cold ; it is a bad conductor, and therefore helps to maintain a uniform temperature; it can lift more readily cleansed than the ordinary woollen garments; its flexibility diminishes the liability of chafing; the ease with which it can be OmployeU in shoes, stockings, underwear, hat linings, and other articles qf clothing, seems likely to make it especially useful as a protection against rheumatic and pulmonary attacks. Forages past the denizens of the earth and air have furnished mankind with materials from which human ingenuity has produced wearing apparel of all kinds; but it is a marked advance upon the past when wo draw Oiir stock of underclothing from tire depths of the ocean.