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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 51, 28 August 1925, Page 9

Flora SJacDnnald, tho Hi|jhlnnd heroine of "Bonnie Prince Charlie," is io have her memory perpel.unlod by Hio ruins of her homo beinsr sclietlulcd under llio Ancient Monuments Act. Although maimfncturers and inventors have not improved on Ike silkworm's delicate thread, they have produced from wood pulp a silky, material which they weave into Bilk stockings. Wood is reduced to a pulp and treated chemically till it is winced to a glutinous jelly. It is then pressed through a strainer containing dozens of microscopical holes. Tho jplly sots liko gluo after it emerges from the holes, and afterwards each haiv-]iko strand is drawn out yard after yard, and" wound on spools, just like the real silk drawn fvotn cocoons. Three, four, o.: c^-rn five of these strands, according to the quality of Hie fabric fob« lvoren, n.ro then spun together like rope, and made into artificial lilt