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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1920-8-26, Page 3SILK MAKING IS A IANC PRQCES.S REQUIRING GREAT CARE BY MANY WORKERS, Shanghai l-Ias. the Biggest of the World's Silk Markets, Held About June 1. The world is indebted to the Chinese for the discovery of the value of the silkworm.Its productwas unknown in Rome until the time of Julius Caesar and so costly was the material that even the Emperor Aurelian refused a dress of this lustrous fabric to his Empress, Now it is nurtured in many countries and its products aro within the reach of most people. Besides the several •doziiesticated spec,jes there is a_wild silkworm found in Central America which weaves as baglike structure two feet in depth that hangs from trees. At a distance the. nest resembles a huge matted cobweb. The insect makes no cb000n, but weaves:the silk iu layers arid skeins around the side of the net. Frorn Tegucigalpa there were sent to the United States sti to years ago six pounds of this silk. Here it was made into handkerchiefs not easily detect- ed from common silk of equal strength and texture. There is a curious silk producing .Dicier in Central America, the arreda de sada, which may bo seen hurrying along :with a load of fine silk on its back from which trail numerous deli- cate i:ininents. . A Doesticated insect, es peculiar fact about the silkworm is that it is actually a domesticated insect. Neither the animals nor the fowls in the barnyard, remote as they are from the wild types, used so little reetraiut as this creature, which, pro- digiously industrious as it may be, has neer been able to meet the world's demand Cor its spun product. As a matter of fact, the silkworm has been o domesticated that it would become extinct now were it not for the aid of roan. Horn into -slavery, ..th`e &texp3l lars crawl contentedly over the nar- row territory of their feeding trays, and, though .the moths have wings, they have lost all desire to fly. As already stated, this slavery be .-gnu in China more than 4,600 years ago. the Chinese give the credit for introducing silkworm culture to Si -ling, .,the wife of the Emperor. Hoang -ti, and the date at 2,600 B.C. Forty years fur the Chinese were cultivating the white mulberry tree to provide the 'Worms with their favorite food, hav- ing awing a start of Europe by a little more ahan 3,000 years. The ancient Romans o fined their precious silk from Cos. Ce, . lirobably got . its material from Ch:::la - through. the 'Persians and Phrleni dans. • Al with the culture of tea, the pro- ifuction of sill: is•an extremely siinple raccupation, especially in China. Brief- ly stated,,the f•ollowing are the steps 'through which the staple passes on its way to the loom: About .the. middle of the month --of Apr ii • the eggs" of the 'silkworm are' hatched. When hatched the resultant little worms are placed , ,on bamboo frames, there to remain for a certain period, during which their diet con- sists of mulberry leaves cat into very small pieces. Waren the worms have attained greater size it becomes neces- sary, of 4course, to provide other frames for 'them, and their diet, too, is altered in that they aro now fed with leaves not so finely cut as before. This process is continued unlit at last they are given whole leaves to feed upon. Feeding the Silkworms. A. curious circumstance. in connec- tion with the feedi:'g of the worms' lies in their varying periods df diet. For iustance, just after they have been hatched the little creatures will eat for a space of five ,days, this being fol- lowed by a sleep of two days. Later. another change comes in their feeding habit,. When they awake their ap- petites are not so keen, inasmuch ,as they will, generally speaking, eat for four days only and then aleepfor one. Upon their attainment of their full size and strength the worms proceed with tho spinning of their cocoons, a task that consumes from four to seven clays' The spinning having been ac- complished the storm turns its atten- tion to the business of stripping the.. cocoon, and about a week later each little cultivator is ready with his sIllc- on harvest. The harvests of all, dilly gathered, go to make up the bales of tho native Chinese traders, Tho first and foremast circumstance that gees to decide the quality and texture of the sills is the breed of the worm responsible for it. Next comes the quality of the leaves- fed to the worker and then canes the ,node of feeriing, Silkworms must be fed at zegular hours, The temperature df the quarters wherein they have their being' must be maintained at a certain degree, kboye all they must be pro- tected against noxious .smells, where- b3' they aro strangely affected. They ,are peculiarly sensitive in tho pres once of, etrangors and, the utmost care mut be exercised by the natives In their handling of the little creatures. lilxperts declare that tho greatest de- fect in the 'production of Chinese silk lies in the primitive mode of reeling which tile Celestials persist tri era playing. The biggest of all silk Markets ie Shanghai, whewio abut `tide t 115 tient all the sats .pun by the Werra. throughout. Ciente, AUTO SPARE PARTS for moot makes and models of oars. Your old, broken or worn -eta Parte: replayed. Write or wire ue desor ir- Ing w, t you want. We carrythe largeeraty4 moat complete ste:ek In ilanade, of slightly used or new parte and automobile equipment.* We ship 0.0 Se, anywhere in Canada. Satis- factory or refund in 'Poll our motto. ,ahaves Auto Share k'a b hapv1Yr 9s8-831 anteerht, ot., Toronto, Out No More Sea -Sickness, . All kinds . of -attempts to prevent ships from rolling have been tried, hundreds of inventors'bave designed non -rolling ships, but seasickness still remains one of the inevitable miseries. of a sea trip in rough weather. But it was announced recently, at the Institution of Naval Architects, London, that a new gryroscope has proved so successful that a large ship can be kept so steady that it only rolls through two degrees, or no more than a car inclines when rounding a sharp bend. Vessels of as much as 10,000 tone displacement have "leen fitted with the gryroscope, and through the Won- derful'steadiness of the ship it main- tains a greater speed. Also, the ship is much drier in rough weather, as the waves do not break_over it to anything like the usual extent. Few of us know how much animals suffer, as well as human beings, in rough weather sit sea, and this may now be prevented. To keep a ship of 10,000 tons steady, the whole weight of the new Sperry gryoscope is only a hundred tons, or one ton in a hundred tons of the ship, What is a Sponge?. Sponges .are externals. When brought to tine surface they are black and slimy. The sponge of the shop is merely the skeleton, the -supporting ` framework, *which gives strength and firmness to the soft, gela- tinous tissues of the living animal Nothing fs known of the food of the sponges: It is taken in through the canal system, and must be in a finely divided state, but of what it consists is not known. The so-called roots of sponges per- form no other purpose than that of anchorage. The ' average six-inch sponge is probably only Lour years•old. Sponge • flaking in' North. and' ',South America israther a modern industry, but it produces more than two-thirds of the world's supply in weight, though the fisheries of the Mediterranean pro- duce about one -Half of the world's supply in value. There are two well-defined sponge regions on the Florida coast. In Cuba the sponge is found both on the north and south coasts. Extensive sponge beds also exist in the 13ahania Islands. Ask for Minard's and take no other. Berlin Returns Art Stolen in Belgium. The" Germans' have' been forced to return to Brus11e1s the six wings of the Van hayelc trlytyoh "The ,Adoration of the Lalnb, ' which were removed dun, ing the German ' ocuputioe. and placed In the raiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin. The return of these art works was in accordance with article 247 of the Treaty of Versailles. There have also been returned here the six wing* of the triptych of "The Last Supper," by Dierick Bouts, and which were formerly 1u the Church of St. Peter In Louvain. It iss lntended to hold an exhibiton of the works of these two painters this month. BABY'S GREAT DANGER OURING NOT 1VEATHER Marc' little ones die during this hot. weather than, at any other time of the year. Diarrhoea, dysentry, cholera infantum and stomach troubles come without warning, and when a medicine is not at hand to give promptly the short delay too frequently means that the child has passed beyond aid. Baby's Own Tablets should always, be kept in the house where there are young children. An occasional dose of the Tablets will prevent stomach and bowel troubles, or if the trouble cornea suddenly the prompt use of the Tablets will relieve the baby. The Tab- lets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 26 cents a box trona The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Keep Smiling. Makeup your mind to keep smiling, And meet with a cheerful face The troubles that fall to one and all, Whatever may .be their place. Courageously stick to your duty, Keep a stout heart, come what may; With a smile .in your eye make care roll by, And gladden the passing day. Make up your mind and stick to it! Don't like a weathercock be, Chopping and changing, andplans de- ranging; Keep to your course steadfastly! .. Though the wind may blow strongly against you, Don't "about turn" and retreat; You'll weather the storm and good work perform If troubles you cheerfully meet. So make up your mind yon will carry Whate'er.you start right through; At the first rebuff don't cry "Enough!" But tackle the thing anew. Stick to your job and keep smiling; Never get down in the dumps; Play a manly game, keep free from shame, And you'll finally turn up trumps. X -Rays. for Old Masters. - The p=rays are used for. a multiplici- ty of purposes in science and indus- try, from tracing the course of a bullet in the body to detecting the faulty construction of a golfball. Dr. L. Heilbron of Amsterdam, has now applied radiography to art. Some pictures, which were under, the suspicion of not being quite what they seem, have been: s.uhjeeted torthe:rays. The result in .several instances has been to discover that part of the paint- ing has been superimposed on a still earlier layer. In a picture of the "Crucitiction,,' painted ;about 1500, many "restora- tions" were exposed, among them the figure. of admonk over which the por- trait of a'; woman had been painted, probably some 400 years ago. .Water in the Sky. Science tells us that water in the atmosphere'keeps us warm. if the air were entirely dry the temperature would be 50 degrees lower than it is. We should have hard work' to keep from freezing. . - Without moisture in the air, there would^be no rain, of course. The earth would quickly become a desert; so that, lackingfood, we would soon starve to death anyway. One thing that rain does for us is to wash the dust out of the air. It makes the rivers rue and provides us with 'water to drink. All of which are con- soling reflections in which we may properly indulge during a spell of what we call bad weather. A gardener, with a conservatory full of flowers for sale to passengers, is the latest addition to the luxurious Atlantic liners. a ---- Strange but True. When a -chameleon is blindfolded it lases the power of changing its color: Last year London street collections for charities* raised $2,000,000. The artificial flower industry in Eng- land employs over 10,000 persons, A crowd of 1,000,000 persons stand- ing in comfort would cover seventy acres. Batter was used for many years in India solely as an ointment for apply- ing to wounds. Mr. J. W. Griffith, a San Francisco motor -car expert, has invented a "me- chanical teacher" for instructing child- ren in handwriting. This "finger guide" holds the hand of the student in the scientifically correct position round the pen, and is to be used until the pupil assumes this position na- turaliy. A man is building, at St, Joseph, Missouri, a row of houses to be let only to families in which there are children and to newly -married couples. The newly-weds will be slowed to oc- cupy the houses with the provision that if theta are no children in their families at the end of: one year's resi- dence, they -will be asked to leave. ----�: Tale of a Shirt. In Scandinavia the bride always gives her future husband a shirt which he 'wears during the marriage cere- mony. After that, when once he has doffed it, no matter to what depths of poverty he may descend, he never wears that shirt again until, he lies in his coffin awaiting burial.. The only two countries in which the mile is of equal length are Britain and America. crEe Flavor 0 is a: its best 1 a . ve ° `t3rdli'G i a fall . a ,e w ; tw,v (e ty ,i, n sand a well .aa e' cup of Postw::a is hard to beat. gg' Another Corm, "INSTANT ,PCIS' 'tTEI: is /trade Quick as a wink,in the cup. Grocers sell both. DELICIOUS US 4D ECONOMICAL LINGERIE FOR SMALL FOI:K 4 9587 Transfer Design Nrel ;714 95871—Child's Set of Underwear (corset waist and one-piece drawers). Price, 20 cents. In sizes, 1, 2, 8, 4, 6 and 6 years. Size 6 requires 1eG,. yds. 32 ins. wide,. or 1Y4, yds. 86 ins. wide; McCall Transfer Design 'No. 739. Price, 10 cents. 9612—Girl's Straight -Pleated Skirt and' Bloomers (attached to under- body). Price 25 emits. In 6 sizes,.4 to 14 years. Size 8 requires, skirt, 13'a yds. 36 ins. wide, or 11/4 yds. 54. ins. wide; underbody, % yd. 36 ins. wide. Thesepatterns may be obtained from your local 11SeCaI1 dealer, or from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St., Tarorto, Dept. W. 4612 A 'TONIC FOR THE NERVES The Only Real Nerve Tonic is a Good Supply of Rich, Red Blood. "If people would only attend to their blood, instead of worrying themselves ill," said an ,eminent nerve specialist, "we doctors would not see our con- sultiug rooms orowded with nervous wrecks. More people suffer from worry than anything else." The sort of thing which the special- ist spoke of is the nervous run-down •condition caused by overwork and the many anxieties of to -day. Sufferers find themselves tired, low-spirited and unable to' keep their minds on any- thing. Any sudden noise hurts like a blow. They are full of groundless fears, and do not sleep well at night. 'Headaches and other nerve pains are part of the misery, and it all comes from starved nerves. Dootoring the nerves with poisonous sedatives is a terrible mistake. The only real nerve tonic is a good supply of'j rico; Ted blood; Thereforerto re- lieve nervousness and run-down health Dr. Williams' Pink Pills should be taken. These pills make new, .rich blood, which strengthens the nerves, improves the appetite, gives new strength and spirits, and makes hitherto despondent people bright and cheerful. If you are at all "out of sorts" you should begin taking Dr. Williams,' Pink Pills. You can get these pills through any dealer in medicine, or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brock- ville, rock ville, Ont. 3' Abut Cloudland. You watch the clouds and admire their beauty, but 'what else do you know about them? ]little or nothing! Study, then, the following cloud collec- tion: Clouds are of all heights. The aver- age is one and a half miles. The high- est is six. The most highly electrified clouds are the lowest—about '700, yards from the ground. The cloud classes are Simple, Intermediate, and Compound. Simple clouds are sub -divided into Cirrus, Cumulus,. and Stratus clouds. The first are the most elevated, and are like fibre or loose hair or "mares'- tails. The name "cirrus" is Latin, and means a lock of hair or curl. Cir- rus clouds pretend fine weather. Cumulus clouds are lumps, like great sugar -loaves• ,or volumes of smoke. When this sort are fleecy and more against the en ace, rain is coming. When their outline is hard and non. fleecy, and they move with- the wind, fine weather is pretended. Stratus clouds ate the lowest, and are creeping mists, generally rising and forming in the evening. Nimbus ciaucls are 'the rain -bring- ers, They have no defined outline, their edges gradually shaping off from. the deep grey of the mass into. trans- parency. The purpose of clouds is threefold. They are Naitire's screens to arrest linden radiation of heat from the earth; they temper the sun's rays and create temper.,e cuntries; they are the groat ?it..sof t'abn, That cel y bit , 1fleece you eau see on a suuiruur's day, high up, is just— snowflakes! Alarm clocks, better than the Ger- man pre -was models and almost as Cheap, are to be made in London, A special appeal is being made to the women in both city and .country by the Canadian National Exhibition this year. •Viy omen's Day will be 'Sept. 2, and every deem Intent eapeble of being ro belittled will be turned n er to worsen for the purpose of (leucon- titrating: her adaptability' and effi- ciency. eum at sm Noav is the time. . to get rid of it 1 Nature is pulling for you The warm weather's here— This is -your chance--- grasp .it—take, Templeton's Rheumatic Catpeuleis' Get it out or your system the easiest way, Solt, by reliable druggists for a. dollar, Ask our agent or write us for a free sample.' Temple- ton's,142 King St. W., Toronto. es A Day With Shakespeare. So Hauch has been written about the fife of William Shakespeare that one would have thought there was noth- ing td add to existing records. Mr. H. E. Bannard, an English writer, has, however, cleverly recon- structed the Tudor period iu Landon; he enables. one, as it were, to spend a day with Shakespeare. As dinner in . !§hakespeare's time was taken at about eleven o'clock, and. the performance at the theatre was usualIy at three o'clock, the early morning between breakfast and dinner would be that portion of the day which Shakespeare found available for his own special purposes. This, in all probability, was the time at which he was accustomed to write, as the hours immediately' after breakfast were the only ones in which, as a rule, he could be free from inter- ruption; and, moreover, for half the year the poorness of the artificial lights of the time rendered it a matter of much physical difficulty to write in the evening. It must be assumed that Shake- speare had the whole time between 6reakfa.st and dinner for composition. Often in the busy year of 1591 he must have found it necessary to go in the morning, either alone or with Bur- bags and others of his colleagues, to see how the construction of the Rase Theatre was progressing, and to con- sult Henslowe on some point or other connected therewith. The players — Shakespeare, of. course, among them—probably reached the theatre about noon. Between noon and three o'clock, the usual time for the performance, there' were the hun- dred and one tasks 'incident to theatri- cal:preparation to accomplish. Rehearsals were presumably carried out in those hours between noon and the opening of the theatre to the pub- lic. There would be various business arrangements to be transacted and, perhaps, purchases to be effected; and, at any rate, in the earlier days of his profeseionai career, Shakespeare would have to order and superintend the lads whose task it was to hold the horses of those who rode to the}play, there probably being solid reasons for the tradition of a group of horse - holders being known as "Shake- speare's Boys." 9 Flowers for Heroes. In this country the long-lasting little flowers called "immortelles" are com- paratively little known. In France, however, they are grown in enormous quantities for the decoration of graves. Nearly all of the immortelles pro- duced in France are grown in the neighborhood of the village of 01- iioules, which is in the south, not far from Toulon. The harvest begins in May and lasts ten days, a period called the "decade of theimmortelles." They have to be picked very early in the morning, when half open, lest they wither. Usually they are sold by weight. The war has brought pros- perity to the village of 011ioules, be- cause of the increased demand for im- mortelles for the gravies of soldiers. Minard's Liniment Co., Limited. Gentlemen,—I have used MIN- ARD'S LINIMENT on my vessel and 1n my family for years, and for the every -day Ills and accidents of life I consider it has no equal. I would not start on a voyage without it, if it cost a dollar a bottle. CAPT. F. R. DESJAT1DIN. Schr. Storks, St. Andre, Kamouraska. Controlling Flower Colors. It is generally known that the colors of vegetation vary in intensity in direct ratio to the amount of sunlight, combined with coolness of tempera- ture, within certain ,indite. Examples aro the intense redness of apples grown in i+orthern climates and the deep colors of Alpine vegetation. lest the soil and other influences also base; an effect upon plant colors. Experiments have been mac, n;?o the artificial cdntrui of colors of plants through the intronnction of chemicals into the soil they grow in. In very small quantlti e mein chemi- cals are absorbed without npt.o r nut. in- jury, but the effect upon the cone, is blight. Yellow roses, foe ixs.; eF. ., ap- pear to 1re0olu0 deeper in ec•lo, the, inSinsnee of alnunttutn and potassium sulphate, "tis; ith the t ..t of these same chemicals the i 't,.i ra' the white carnation show a tendcnc' to develop reed streaks, where...:, when fed with ammonium eulphnto Ex tart nitn sulpri0t.e, iron citrate and c etre acid, scarlet' carnations tend to forth white streaks. tS$L'rr No. F��Ot4 . E E f"! SERE Exception- to the .Rule, "All the world loves a lover,," quotes the young %nen-who was malt- ing his first call, "You haven't Diet father yet, have you?" 'the fair maid queried. Naturally. The lesson was about the prodigal son, and the Sunday school teacher was dwelling on the character of the older brother. "But amid all the rejoicing," lie said, "there was one to whom the ,prepara- tion of the feast brought no joy, to whom the prodigal's return gave no pleasure, but only bitterness; one who did not approve of the feast they held, and who had no wish to attend it, Now, can any one of you tell me who this was?" There was a breathless silence. Then from a dozen sympathetic scholars came the chorus: "Please, sir; it was the fatted calf." A Mere Trifle. "Would you like a lift, sir?" a coun- try -man asked civilly as he overtook. a foot traveller on a road in the north of England. As they jogged along they ;Matted about all sorts of things_ Presently the old countryman pulled out a big watch. "Can ee tell me the toime,. air?" he asked. "Certainly. It is exactly three o'clock," replied the other as he watched the countryman adjusting his watch. Then he stopped him. '"I said three o'clock, not twelve," he add- ed. "Oh, that be all right, sir" said the countryman, as be slipped his time- piece Into his pocket. "Her'li soon make that oop. Her be a wonderful goer." MONEY ORDERS. Pay your out-of-town accounts by Dominion Express Money Order. Five boilers ousts three cents. The opal shows its exquisite color,* beat when warm, and dealers, aware of this peculiarity, will hold an opal in the hand before shawing it, in order to enhance its changing lustre. ` The brain of an idiot contains less phosphorus than is contained in the brain of a person of average mental power. MOTHER! "California Syrup of Figs" Child's Best Laxative 11111. classified Adwerltiserneat* NOM "file`sian,:1 Aix., BBL4,c g• B ti room. Iiee Bron,, Bothwel3, nt. Coins of the Pot. The ,frit coin used by t:lvilizedd Har tions of the anclent world were small Metal ingots stamped with a rider's seal, It is probable that they were first minted in Lydia, the rich .Aslan king- dom of which Cressue was the most Minolta king, The "punch -marked" coins of India ` are assigned to a period older even than that of Buddhism, and gold, ell. ver and copper coins may have been used. In India before they were known in the West. Theancient monetary system of Persia, in which the ratio of silver to gold was thirteen to one, is said to have been established by Cy. rus in 533 B.0, Ancient Hebrew money consisted of rings, or bangs, but iron, copper, sil- ver and gold coins followed. The, Greeks were using gold and silver money by the .ninth century, B.C., and ancient Rome used leather, bronze, l silver and gold money in a bewildering number of systems. Minard's Liniment for sale everywhere. 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