The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-29
Just BETLUEEN YOU md ME


part in waking hours this week that feel like SPELL
ing it in capitals with all the exclamation points in the
and, candidy what do not know do know.
At least not for time yet .*:.. -:
The papers Silk: Its History Culture, Manufacture
and Use,'' came by They n sngy in
lunches in battalions, until desk overlooking,
made all of threats against the dutiful little
assistant editor who opened the mail and laid them they
came desk. -.
venienty reach, and smiled familiar phrases
in the without a a anywhere make
them sound like the writer's Even had done
this would not have taken long to realize that
authority to blame for the constant of such
'branchy twig, glossy
is spun by caterpars and well known fabric made from
it, but when fed upon other than mulberry leaves the
silk is Of inferior quality"
Naturally will be prepared for the statement that the
awarded those writer's who best succeeded
in getting from cut and dried statement of the
facts Not from the facts, but from the
cycloped saying them respects where orig
inal Junior writer's
to do good work with which have consult
authorities with subject they have dig from their
memories which built up wholly from
their brains Some effort to treat the subject thor
oughy banched off into discussion of the mulberry tree
its flowers fruit timber all of which interesting but
has direct bearing has to bear
the leaves OF but at leaves That is what the
slkworm
hand, one or two were so conscientious
allowing papers be colored the
encyclopedias that they ignored the of the
and built an impossible story Some made direct connec
ton between Chinese discovered the
which the silk of the be put and England This
empress lived probably, world,
then only the east far history shows knew nothing
of the island which is called England. It really
several thousand before silk reached England More
hundreds hundreds the
went slowly very slowly through the countries
of Europe.
1t only slip of the of for the writer
VINO sao a SILK culture was introduced INTO the oii'eo
States by James L. who sent and mulberry shoots to
Virginia. The United States not then in existence
nor even thought Of is the same country OF course but
alter the which should be spoken
In speaking of the necessary for the
writer asserted '1t silk
If they not treated right they holes in the
cocoons On the is when they treated
far their natural life concerned that they do not
holes in their sken The with
the slkvvorna
grub through stage into the perfect form
moth This that there must always be hole
by through the let the moth
This natural would cutting into short
lengths of the precious fament of silk before the
into the moth the heated and the
killed This gives the perfect made from single
thread The little VndctVe feeling about
it at all.
thinks shell
called which his thread,
which gives it body and its we'll known shape -.
The of silk manufacture quite complicated
younger have
gained mistaken ideas. Generally speaking,
descriptions
people expected to things under
stand other thngsust This leaves Junior
seeker after knowledge stranded almost high
were written in a foreign language.
Just day too late to be added to my comments on Lon
last letter from American has
been spending months there had asked in previous
letter what the pronunciation is Of ."Pal Mail" whether
supposed genuine English pronunciation of it,
is The never-ending question of fogs up too
the writer that when they have continued for
they get into the houses the
thick if smother does
good to the windows for only lets fog
The only thing that shades light
the lamps pretend it is night
Something else I did not know is peculiar little
they have in Paris On return trip from ST. Denis
city half miles the Notifications of Paris
stopped the of Paris
examined all packages of the
thing that in and out of Paris has duty
makeup Juniordom always changing,
about often I have to repeat myself This time
about the buttons Each button must be
a it s for
far it's being replaced its concerned No buttons
sold given to take the place Of Junior buttons
disappoint Juniors
cherish their buttons and who think buttons
replaced But the rule necessary
and has been enforced from the beginning ..
artists headings and
printed in Journal Junior last
whose stories accepted will please notify the editor