SOW’S EAR VINDICATED.
TRANSMUTED INTO SILK PURSE A firm of chemists of Cambridge, Massachusetts, have succeeded in manufacturing a silk purse out of a sow s ear. They admit that it is not I CoK,mer °ml proposition, but sufficiently complete and substantial to demonstrate the fallacy of the ancient proverb.
I I Having discovered that the silkworm manufactures its product by exuding from tiny duets in its head two kinds of viscous liquids which combine under Oi i alr - to forn ‘ the “Ik tin cad, the chemists set to work to “nd a substitute for the process. One “* ho , l, ? u ; ds secreted by the worm is somewhat in the nature of glue The mom'LwV f S ? ls ° of tlle natural 1 1 f - glus l whlch the chemists succeeded in extracting. This substance was subjected to a process of refinement and a fine thread was drawn possessing all the desired soft feeling of silk. After treatment to increase the strength of the thread it was woven on a small handloom into a small piece Of fabric which was made up into a diminutive but authentic purse
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 243, 18 October 1921, Page 6
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187SOW’S EAR VINDICATED. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 243, 18 October 1921, Page 6
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