sealers, who deftly fold wrapping paper about the reams and secure it in place with gummed paper tape. They accumulate the neatly wrapped packages about them with astonishing rapidity.

If the paper is to be put into boxes with envelopes to match for retailing through the stationers, the large sheets are cut into small ones, which are folded, pressed, and banded. Envelopes are made on a very ingenious machine, which takes the queerly outlined sheets cut for it, and folds and gums them, and deposits the finished envelopes in a rack. A girl counts and bands them, and other girls take them away and put them and the paper in the boxes of varied design that are ready to receive them. Now they are ready to be packed in cases to be shipped to stationers the world over.

The facts noted in this little book and the pictures showing the processes of paper-making were obtained in one of the mills of the Whiting Paper Company at Holyoke, Massachusetts. The Whiting Paper Company are the largest manufacturers exclusively of loft dried papers in the world. They make a specialty of the fine wedding and correspondence papers handled by the stationers; and they also manufacture ledger papers, bond papers, linens, superfines -- in fact, all varieties of first-class writing papers which are called for by the general paper trade -- and whatever they make is preeminently good of its kind.

Great care is used in sizing the Whiting papers -- that is, in giving them just the proper coating of a delicate gelatine solution. This renders the surface non-absorbent of ink, and gives it superior writing qualities and durability, and enables erasures to be made, when necessary, without disturbing seriously the fibrous body of the paper. These papers retain their firmness and color to a degree impossible with papers that are handled less scientifically and by other processes.