CARTON. A light cardboard box, used for packing small articles of many kinds, including foods, confectionery, tobacco, stationery, medicines, dentifrices, soaps, household pastes, light hardware, etc. The careful packing of such goods is one of the remarkable changes in industrial and commercial methods which marked the opening of the aoth century. In the old days, teas, soaps, tobacco, and other such things were weighed at the counter and packed loosely in paper and string, if packed at all. The growth of proprietary articles and special brands, in addition to a desire for cleaner handling, has changed all that, and carton-mak ing has consequently become a very big industry, employing many people in every great industrial nation throughout the world. (See Box MAKING.)