Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1912 — NOW THE CHAMELEON GOWN [ARTICLE]

NOW THE CHAMELEON GOWN

Scientist Promises, Among Other Things, Mstter of Some Moment to Women Readers.

Chameleon gowns for women, changing color with the intensity of tho light, are predicted by Dr. Giacomo Ciamiclan of Bologna, addressing the eighth international congress of applied chemistry, recently in session at the College of the City of New York. “Photographic , substances,” said Doctor Ciamiclan, “which often assume very Intense colors in the light and return in the darkness to thefr primitive colors, may well attract the attention of fashion. The dress of a woman so prepared would change color according to the intensity ot the light Passing from darkness to light the colors would brighten, thus conforming automatically to the environment the last word of fashion for the future;"

Another of Doctor Ciamician's suggestions was world prepare to use the daily solar energy, equal to 6,000,000,000 tons of coal. Instead of the mere 1,000,000,000 tons of real coal which is mined per year. "Out of the arid lands there' will spring up industrial colonies without smoke and without smokestacks,” he said, picturing what will happen when all the coal is gone; “forests ot glass tubes will extend over the plains and glass buildings will rise everywhere. Inside these will take place the photo-chemical processes that hitherto have been the guarded secrets of the planets, but that will have been mastered by human industry. Life and civilization will continue as long as the sun shines. If our Mack and nervous civilization, based on coal, shall be followed by a quieter civilizar tion of solar energy, that will not be harmful to progress and to human happiness.”