Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1919 — Why Lawn la Called Lawn. [ARTICLE]

Why Lawn la Called Lawn.

Years ago the Dutch excelled all other peoples in the bleached linens they sent forth. That was in a time, of K course, when bleached linen was considered- a luxury. The Dutch gained their fame for this excellence because they had a wonderful system of treating the muslin to make it white. To begin with, they treated it to bleaches and acids of various.-sorts; and then they placed it on bleaching lawns, or greens, where it lay at intervals from March to , September. The white material thus produced took the name of the lawns whereon ft was bleached—at least, so goes the story.