Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-12-28

berry leaves Size had brought in for them
every day. Still they would always keep
near the boughs placed in the room.
Shortly after the clever child made another
discovery.
She found upon the boughs tiny globules
and remembered having seen similar ones
upon the branch that had been brought
first from the garden. She apprised her
parents of the news and between them
they soon found the truth. They had dis
covered the transitory forms of the devel-
opment Of the silkworm.
After that time Emperor Hoang-Ti was
often seen in deep thought. Whenever he
found the empress at her loom he would
remain at her side for hours, watching
her quick hands guiding the shuttle
through the warp. 1t vel so far that
while looking at the empress work he
would sometimes neglect even urgent
affairs of state.
"Just think of it, " said the master of
the household to the minister Of wal one
day; ''his majesty has not listened to mo
or heard one word of my verbal report
about what measures l propose to employ
to stop the damage done by the caterpil-
lars in the imperial gardens. We would
have ample work for at least $50 people if
the emperor had sanctioned my plan and
approved of the creation of the new charge
of imperial caterpillar destroyer / even
had imagined most handsome uniforms
for these very useful officials"
ooh, yes, you are quite right retorted
the minister of war. His majesty Ger
tainly lacks the mental vigor of former
days. While l read my report on the state
of our northern Notifications yesterday
the emperor played the whole time with
one of the little egg shaped balls made by
the worms of the little princess, and when
I had finished he had pulled it to pieces
and into numberless fine threads"
The two old courtiers shook their gray
heads in dismay and went on their re-
spective errands. Their establishment
about the whims Of their imperial master
rose higher still when in the following
spring Emperor Hoang-W gave orders to
collect all the worms that could be found
on the mulberry trees and had them fed
and cared for in the largest state halls Of
his sumptuous palace. The empress and
the princess supervised this work in per-
son, and never a day passed without the
emperor himself inspecting the progress
of his hobby. When the worms ceased
feeding OF leaves and began spinning their
cocoons, the emperor came forward with
q little machine, which made it possible
to unwind the fine threads from the CO.
coons and to turn them into a yarn of a
fineness previously unknown. When a
sufficient quantity Of the yarn had been
obtained, the princess again turned to her
loom, and what she wove then was not
x,Do1 Int tho rn,r fI,o, roo,poJ Nv, tho
machine Of the emperor from the cocoons.
The monarch had thus become the found
er of the silk industry. Soon he also
taught the art of dyeing the silk in vari-
GUS colors by means of vegetable d%yestutfs.
The first silk fabric that came from the
loom of the empress vas worked into a
garment for the little princess, Louit-Sue,
who was radiant in the dazzling yellow
white dress, but the very next was a hand
some shining gown for the emperor, in
blue-the color of the sky-and yellow
the color of the earth-in memory of the
beautiful spring morning when the en-
peror in the light of a radiant sky had
discovered on earth wherewith to make
his people wealthy and happy.
Long ere grim death put IN end to the
glorious reign of Emperor Hoang-T many
thousands Of industrious workmen were
engaged in the newly created mannfac-
t,1re Of silk When the entire neonlp
through delegates wanted 70 thank tbe
emneror for giving his valuable discovery
to the nation the modest monarch dis
claimed all merit and only said that he
had Thought "a novel occInation would
he the most adequate means to raise the
moral standard of his neonle and to com
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