Tt is but natural that manufactur. fers in the three major—divisions of the textile industry—cotton, wool and sitk—weleome rayon as a'boon, tut ilk men in China will enter: tain the reverse feeling. As the Jcommodity is produced in increasing volume, there will be the tendency for a price decline, and as it takes the place of silk to a Very large extent there will be a decreasing demand among manufacturers in the textile industries for /must forgotten that rayon ead, sik. On, he other hand, it {enables the silky manufacturer not only to produce many more novelty' effects but also to substantially low. jer costs. This obviously will mean greater sales. A woman who cannot or will not afford five dollars for a real silk article may be in-johned to buy an article of silk and rayon mixture for half the price, that in course of time it may conceivably be found that the use of rayon, as a mixture, actually injereases the demand for silk in the textile industries of this and other countries.
And that will be all the better for China,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.