Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1903 — Battons. [ARTICLE]

Battons.

The Elizabethan era gave vogue to the button aud tbe buttonhole, two inventions which may fairly bo regarded, as important, since they did much to revolutionize dress. The original button was wholly a product of needlework, which was soou improved by the use of a wooden mold. The brass button is said to Lave l>eeu introduced by a Birmingham merchant in IGB9. It took 200 years to improve on the method of sewing the cloth upon the covered button. Their uu ingenious Danehit upon the idea of luuking the button in two parts and clamping them together, with the bloth between. Button* are now made of almost from seaweed and cattle hoofs to mother of pearl and vegetable ivory. Excellent buttons are made from which, treated chemically, become a* hard as ivory.—Boston Transcript.