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...Premier that in America he would be the object of much curiosity?" a curiosity such as prompted an English girl to ask her governess whether they should go to the Zoo and see the new animals or to Hyde Park and see the American Ambassador in his silk...
...Silk Industry. U. S. Ambassador Woods confirmed the report that Japan's silk industry was not seriously affected. The silk filatures were practically uninjured, and the area of production escaped altogether, although 42,000 bales of silk were destroyed in Yokohama...
Speaking from his early experience, Professor Perry described first the old fashioned type of pedagogical professor, who "wore silk hats and frock coats, and were as eager to save the soul as to instruct the mind...
This situation is expected to greatly favor the wider employment of artificial silk for some time, although the synthetic and manufactured product is not in all ways an acceptable substitute for the natural silk. Artificial silk is made mainly of either cotton linters or wood pulp, treated with picric acid; various secret processes give the resulting cellulose the required viscosity and sheen, by forcing it through tiny holes and spinning it?just the process of the silk worm when it spins its cocoon...
Last year the U. S. led the nations in the production of artificial silk...