THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK

CHAPTER

A MARVELLOUS CATERPILLAR

HERE are many women who do not
like caterpillars. In fact, very few
Women do. This is unfair. It is
really thoughtless ingratitude, as caterpillars
have done more for women than any other
sect in the world.

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If it were not for caterpillars, gy would
have no silk. We would not even have the
idea of silk. We would never have dre med
2 Soft, radiant fabric, with a sheen ke
that of Precious stones and yet as s
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The inventor of silk—inventor and manufacturer
 both—was the little greenish-white
Caterpillar which we call the silkworm (Bombyx
Mors),

For some reason known only to itself, and
by a Process which is still a mystery to every

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