WHEN PERSISTENCE PAID

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 14

WHEN PERSISTENCE PAID

She is only a student yet, I'anna Stanislawa Witaczek, but she is endowed with a'rare acumen for business, as my story will show (writes Mr. IS. Almcdingen in an exchange). She was born in the Caucasus, and spent her early years near a silkworm plantatibn. . It interested her, and slie observed the silk culture until, when quite a young girl, she conceived the idea of trying her own hand at it. She went to Poland some five years ago, and laid her scheme before the Ministry of Agriculture. "Why should not the silk industry be introduced into Poland?"

Even rubber may make a charming fashion, as seen depicted by this outfit, which is the very latest in rubber, comprising a black rubber macintosh with a silky shsen, embroidered in white, complete with rubber hat and Wellington boots to match. It was shown at an exhibition of rubber goods in London on 13th December last.

For some reason or other the Ministry would not consider her plan, and Stanislawa was left to her own resources. She looked around, noticed that in a little town near Warsaw there grew many mulberry trees, and, aided by her equally keen brother, she decided to rent a house in that locality. Her next step was lo scud orders to France.for silkworm cjrjra, and then she began her work. Within two years she succeeded in getting about fifty people to join her in this venture, ami the number now totals over 300. Just recently Parma Stanislawa had the triumph of announcing that 4.i0 kilos (about pOOlb) of silk were produced on her plantations. Spurred by this success, she and her brother started a special course in silk industry, and people from all parts of the country came to attend it. The silk propaganda has now extended to mqre than a thousand farms, the owners and tenants of which have taken to planting mulberry trees, stirred by the girl's energy and enthusiasm. Silk is now being woven from home-produced cocoons. The success attained by Stanislawa Witaczck and her indomitable pluck in coping with the numberless initial difficulties has led the Ministry of Agriculture to reconsider its decision and it has now agreed to co-onevate in the further extensions' of the girl's scheme.