PIGS DO FLY!

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1936, Page 20

PIGS DO FLY!

Not so very long ago an airman took a pig with him for a flight in his aeroplane, to show that the, day had passed for saying "JPigs might fly"—when bna wished to say a thin/; was impossible.

Now we read of a well-known technical' laboratory "hear CfhicagbN where tlie staff thought they would: try :io make a silk purse out of a sow's ear» A number of sow's ears were obtained from a:Chicago meat-packer, and thei* chemical composition was examine 4 and experiments were made. *

The result was tha.t 3 sort of silk was obtained from 'treated ears, and froni it was knitted, an old-fashioned type of .purse, which disproved . the sayj ing -that "You can't make a silk pursa' from a sow's ear." ';