SILK STOCKINGS

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 4, 5 January 1920, Page 9

SILK STOCKINGS

MADE OF SAWDUST.

Working, with nothing but despised sawdust, heretofore burned as a_ waste product of the lumber industry, scientists of the Collcgo of Forestry of SyracuseUniversity (America) announce that they have successfully produced the following: Silk stockings, phonograph discs, saueage casings, and twine.

.And all four can be manufactured from the wood waste to show a handsome commercial profit, the college experimenters declare. With silk stockings now commanding £2 a pair, and 6ome women declaring that a woman cannot be respectably dressed unless she wears silk stockings, the college mon believe they have the solution to the question. Tho sawdust stockings are said to look like and to feel liko silk. The only difference is in the cost of manufacture, for the .sawdust article can. be turned out at 2s Gd a pair, according to tho discoverer of the process. Tests shpw that tho latter wear as well, if not hotter, than those made from tho thread spun by tho silkworm. Tho Syracuse University is giving undivided attention to the female of the species to-day, the object being the reduction of the high cost of living. College savants assert that the present price of women's shoes is unwarranted. They lay tho blame on the shoo manufacturer, who declines to buy small blocks of hard maple. Tho wood is-used for the luffh French heck. on ladies' shoos, and the shoo manufacturer will only accept. large blocks. Hence the smaller blocks are figured as Waste by the lumberman, who mnkos his prices sufficiently high to cover it. Tho. shoeman passes tho buck, with a bit for interest, to tho purchaser. Hence, i.3 10s and upward for women's footwear.