Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1912 — NOW THE CHAMELEON GOWN [ARTICLE]

NOW THE CHAMELEON GOWN

Scientist Promises, Among Other Things, Matter of Some Moment to Women Readers. Chameleon gowns for women, chang lng colo« wiih the intensity of the light, are predicted by Dr. Giacomo Ciamician of Bologna, addressing the eighth international congress of applied chemistry, recently in session at the College of the City of New York. "Photographic substances,” said Doctor Ciamician, “which often assume very intense colors in the light and return in the darkness to their primitive colors, may well attract the attention of fashion. The dress of a woman so prepared would change color according to the intensity of the light. Passing from darkness to light, the colors would brighten, thus conforming automatically to the environment, the last word of fashion for the future.” Another of Doctor Ciamician’s suggestions was that the world prepare to use the daily solar energy, equal to 6,000,000,000 tons of coal. Instead of the mere 1,000,000,000 tons of real coal which is mined per year. “Out of the arid lands there will spring up Industrial colonies without snfoke and without smokestacks,” he Baid, picturing what will happen when all the coal is gone; “forests of glass tubes will extend over the plains and glass buildings will rise everywhere. Inside these will take place the photo-chemical processes that hitherto have been the guarded secrets ' of the planets, but that will have been mastered by human industry. Life and civilization will continue as long aj the sun shines. If pur black and nervous civilization, based on coal, Bhall be followed by a quieter civilization of solar energy, that will not be harmful to progress and to human happiness.” ■ .* •