Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1870 — Waterproofs. [ARTICLE]

Waterproofs.

By the way touching waterproofs, I tfrtnlr I can give travelers a valuable hint or two. For many years I have worn India-rubber waterproofs. But ! will buy no more, for I have learned that good Scottish, tweed can be made completely Impervious to ralta, and, moreover, I have leerned how to make it so, and for the benefit of readers I wi}l here give the recipe; In a bucket es soft water, put hair a pound of sugar of lead and hair a Erand of powdered fclumf stir this at ter vals until it becomes ilear;' then pour it off into another backet, and put the garment therein, and let it be in for twentyrfour hours, and then hang It up 1,0 dry without ringing it. Two of my party —a lady and worn garments thus treated In wildest storm of wind and rain without getting wet, The i tain hangs upon the doth w globules. gaafjysaa M miles in a storm of rain and wind such as you rarely *» in. the South; and when he • slipped off his overcoat, his underclothes were as dry as when he put them on. This is, ! think, a secret worth knowing ; for cloth, u it can he made to koep out wet, is hi every way better than what we know as ,*ston>roofe.-*lWua<rofc<ij UtMt. ),■