The comic hero Charley Chaplin is recollected at once who was striking a match on his own trousers. That time an English anecdote was spread in which a safe match said to another one, half-burned: “Now you see where your bad habit of scratching your head leads!”

Sauria’s matches didn’t smell, but were harmful for one’s health because white phosphorus is very poisonous, it was used by many suicides for paying their life back...