Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . for his use as a natural product of the soil. The latter he hadto produce by artificial means to afford that protection which nature faded to10 146 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY provide. Next to agriculture, therefore, mans early attention was directedto securing a covering for the bo
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . for his use as a natural product of the soil. The latter he hadto produce by artificial means to afford that protection which nature faded to10 146 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY provide. Next to agriculture, therefore, mans early attention was directedto securing a covering for the body. Looking back through the vista ofyears dimmed by the mists of very remoteness, we find the animal and vege-table kingdoms destined to contribute to his needs. There were the blue flax-fields ; cotton-bolls, scattered like powdered snow about the land, coquettingin wanton abandon with winds tempered by an all-wise Power to the shep-herd-watched sheep ; goats roaming the vale of Cashmere ; silk-worms ofCeres, and the grasses of spring, overflowing with allurements of assistancefor his adornment. With these essentials has man wrought a mighty genius of Industrial Art, awakened by the fascinating influence ofNature, invoked the Goddess of Invention, approaching her temple not with. KNITTING IN THE NEW WAY. loud acclaim, as marked the herculean strides in other arts and sciences,but modestly, though tenaciously and most effectually. For not more iswoman emancipated by the sewing machine than both sexes by the doingaway of the spinning-wheel, the household knitter, and hand-worked more do electricity and steam power facilitate the various occupationsof man than do the many textured fabrics add to his needs. In all the phases of social life is this industry manifest. If the banquethall is warmed and lighted by electricity, so, also, is it adorned with tapes-tries, silken and artistic, napery surpassingly smooth, and laces intricatelywrought. How like a fairy t
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