Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1912 — Many Uses for Bamboo. [ARTICLE]

Many Uses for Bamboo.

Bamboo, one of the most provident gifts of nature to a people, is put to so many uses by the natives of the tropics, especially in the Orient, that it is difficult to see, how they could lire without It. Among the principal uses to which It Is put may be set down: Building houses, furniture of all kinds, casings of artesian wells, water buckets, rafts, pipes, window shades and blinds, mats, umbrella ribs, hats, rain coats, outriggers on native prows, cover for Junks, palanquin poles, blow-pipes, picture frames, decorative purposes, including paintings, paper and paper pulp, baskets, small bridges, walking sticks, and flute*.