Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1913 — To Tell Linen From Cotton. [ARTICLE]

To Tell Linen From Cotton.

When buying handkerchiefs or other linen goods, to find out if they really are lines, molßten the tip of the finger and press on them. If the wet penetrates the handkerchief at once it is linen, but If cotton It takes some seconds to wet through the thread.