THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK only until the last day, when it was packed with an amazed throng of 12,000 people. Here were the most beautiful fabrics that I had ever seen. Famous actresses were posing as mannequins. It was a display, one would think, for queens and princesses alone. And yet the prices put these fabrics within the reach of millions of women. This new Artificial Silk, I realized, is at the moment the most important new thing in the world. It will eventually re-clothe the human race. It will revolutionize the whole textile trade, from silk to jute. It will make good clothes cheap and universal. Best of all, it now gives us a chance to recover our supremacy in textiles, as we control 80 per cent. of the Artificial Silk trade of the world. ARTIFICIAL SILK Is BrrtisH. It was in- vented and developed by British chemists, and its present success is wholly due to British business men. I venture to say that we are now making more net profit out of Artificial Silk than out pie