Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1902 — Billiard Balls From Potatoes. [ARTICLE]

Billiard Balls From Potatoes.

A material that can be carved may be made out of peeled potatoes, which are prepared for this purpose by being first blackened for thirty-six hours in eight parts of sulphuric acid to one hundred of water; it is next dried with blotting-paper, and then pressed. The French now manufacture pipes, in close Imitation, it is said, of meerschaum, from this novel substance. A heavy pressure gives a material so hard that good billiard balls in imitation of ivory can be made from it. To the housewife wno has not yet become acquainted with the new things of everyday use in the market and who is reasonably satisfied with the old, we would suggest that a tri:.. of Defiance Cold Water Starch be made at once. Not alone because it is guaranteed by the manufacturers to be superior to any other brand, but because each 10c package contains 16 ozs., while all the other kinds contain but 12 ozs. It is safe to say that the lady who once uses Defiance Starch will use no other. Quality and quantity r ust win.