THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK 
Artificial Silk can be made from many 
materials. It has been made from maize 
and milk and various other substances. The 
main thing, so far as raw materials are con- 
cerned, seems to be cheapness. No one 
knows, as yet, what Artificial Silk will even- 
tually be made from. Apparently, our 
marvellous chemists can take almost anything 
and make a silk gown out of it. 
Eventually, the whole process will be done 
continuously, on one great machine. The 
machine will be in two parts, the first dealing 
with the chemical operations and the second 
with mechanical operations. The material 
will flow steadily forwards in a river of mass 
production. 
All this mastery of new materials and 
production of new textiles has been wrought 
by the Chemist. The victorious CHEMIST! 
He deserves a word of praise for it all. 
He is the new Magician of trade and com- 
merce. He takes a tree, waves his wand 
and Presto—it becomes a silk dress, all shining 
and radiant. He picks up a sack of despised 
cotton waste, from the rear of a mill in 
Oldham. He plunges it into magical baths 
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