Two New Proposals Laid Before Members At a well attended tifin meeting of the Rotary Club held at the Metropole Hotel on July 27, E. Schuster gave a very, interesting classification talk om the "History Paper and its Manufacture." Mr, Hugo Sandor, President of the Club, made an important acnouncemert of the Club's charitable activities. Having seen the successful fulfiiment of their efforts in connection with the Russian School for Children with which they were now finished, the Charitable Committee have two new projects. The first is in connec tion with the Convalescent Home for Children on "Hungjao Road, for which they hope to raise $10,000 before the end of the year for the construction of two new. wings. The '4 Crippled Chilpital. Dr. New of the Orthopedic Hospital is willing to donate three mow of land adjoining his hospital, valued at about $70,- ind the club will endeavour to $50,000 for the building and equipment, Story of Paper Mr, B. Schuster in the cou: se of his address said that nowa there is hardly any industry which does not use paper in its manufac: turing process or for wrapping up its manufactured articles, Centuries before Christ, papyrus scrolls, we manufactured in' Egypt. The scrolls were manufactured from the spyros plant, a sort of bamboo plant grown in the lower valley of the Nile. The bark of the plant was removed and a bastlike structure of fibres cut off the stem in shavings of the length and width of finger, These small shavings were pasted together lengthways and across, thus forming a solid. sheet. he bast was of a good white colour and the produce resembled very uch a sheet of white paper, This papyrus sheet found its way all over Greece and other countries of south-em Europe.
Tt was in the town of Pergamum' in Asin Minor that a new material was made suitable for writing. The akin of sheep, goats, and calves, w shaved and bleached in the sun. This material was called pergameni and was of exceptional strength and cial documents are material for writing—prepared plates of wax, on which they wrote with a finger' nail or some woof
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.