The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-29

moth. When silk is wanted pupa sikworm is
then called is killed by steam heat" he explained.
what they with
They dry them and then they for the thread
to be taken off and Such fine
silk is not made in the factories the silk
rasers for it is mostly the which stained
otherwise injured which sent to manufacturers The
japanese Keep the good ones at home and make fine silk
such is used in dresses ribbons things for
wealthy classes.
Silk is used for handkerchief
and trimmings, and is very soft and also beautiful
Where did silk first come from?' said the eager and
questioning girl
families and SO carefully and jealousy guarded that did
mot get out Of that cony until reached Japan in the
"Oh and from there princess carried the egg of
the moth and the seed Of
she?"
''wen, rather doubt heard was
brought from China into the Bramaputra valley and from
there the Gauges into other ASIA
Europe first heard of it Aristotle
sorm as worm with horns said the patient gentleman
but, why didn't the Greeks make silk? They
much about everything ese said the still unsatsfed lis
tener.
ooh, they did, first it was worth it's weight in
gold Afterwards the trade of making silk fast
1t England century, it
did not become much of trade until about century
afterwards, Flemish Spain md
settled in England about it in United
States? WE'LL silk making first successfully brought
into Virginia. revolutionary broke out
Franklin nursing silk Philadelphia.
states gave
raising silk but it is done longer China and Japan
sll among the leading countries in the culture of silk
though other countries also cultivate it,
The girl she had to leave, for this had
been great day for her. Laura Bakke
Eighth Grade. St. James, MINI.
WE do not stop the little silk
w It is from them that get the thread
from which is manufactured beautiful silks. The
dies placing her eggs The egg matches
out small larva. which eats continually the
leaves Of kinds changes its skin four
times 1t is then about three long
done it spins which it body
for covering, making From this
perfect moth in about two three weeks The
cocoons are dropped into hot water to kill the If
it allowed stay way injurng
the silk The fossy covering is then taken off, but the
kept soften the which is around
the silk and loosen the threads which then wound by
The si)kworm dryness; warmth, pure
the kind Of food They eat usually the leaves Of the
white mulberry though the leaves the
coming first ul-
vated South Carolina and Connecticut before
revolutionary There have been several efforts to
make the cultivation of the sikworm general in the
States.
The making of silk probably in China.
the wife of being credited with first unwindg
silk in $500 B. c. The Of the slworm
brought to Consantnope from China by Persian monks
who carried them about in hollow They
cessful introducing the manufacture of silk.
dustry spread through Greece and was carried into Sicily
prisoners then it taken Spain by
Moors The King of France imported workaen from Milan
and successful in starting the silk
the cultivation of the mulberry tree for food for the
established In Georgia, in 1888, silk
started manufacture of silk This carried
Georgia until revolutionary
silk manufactured to England, where robe
for the
The method Of manufacture takes the silk, which Is
obtained from the cocoons of the by winding it of
through Keeling machine. cleans twists
threads and winds them bobbns and frames for the
There is waste in the which,
silk for long time considered useless But
method of spinning invented by Englishnan,
which helped the industry much The of
silk from prepared thread looks like that Of weaving
cotton goods The manufacture Of silk is
carried in Paterson N. where
than hundred factories. .--.5
Silk is put to great many Beautiful robes
kings and queens the robes Of the pope,
bishops other ministers made Of fine quality Of
silk. other things skirts,
dresses underwear hosiery gloves umbrellas draperies
of all these and other silks be found
at R. -Goodfenows 700 Nicolet
r. A Sixth Grade, Grace Line11an,