Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1917 — Conservation of Wool. [ARTICLE]

Conservation of Wool.

The President’s national committee of defense has been' busily sending out announcements to the wholesale dressmakers. They tell the dire tale that wool must be saved by this country, and they make the pertinent suggestion that the coming gowns shall not be made all of wool, notes the New York Times. There is a substitute for wool, woven of what is called “remade wool” (they are using some of this in the army), and, then, there is our life-long friend, the cotton and wool mixture —not considered very elegant in the past. There is no telling what will be the result of all this looking forward, but the fact remains that wool is going up and up and that something must be done, not alone for the sake of the government, but for the sake of poor, suffering pocketbooks. We may yet be dressing in paper and spurning wool as old-fash-ioned and out of date.