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 manu- 
facturer 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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