Woman's Share in Development of Great Industry If, as it has been said, manners make the man, certainly it is her clothes that make the woman, To paraphrase a certain famous quotation: her dress is the woman, And the materials from which the dress is made offer an even more intimate picture. Looking round the silk department of a famous store, one is able to realize the fac! Here among this unique collection exquisite materials one can sec that the story of silk is the histor of woman throughout: the ages, tows her evolution from the savage, through the dawn of selt-consciousness and love of beautiful things of medieval times, to the cultured, charming personality that she is to-da Every material contributes its bit to its history. There is the severd: practical product of to-day; the beauty and the craftsmanship of the Victorian age, and silk in tne ray, unfinished ' and untouehe, almost as it was in the beginning tim When four thousand years ago, la the days of the sages, Yo and Shun, the elected ce-emperors of the Golden age in China, following a great flood it was found that the much prized mulberry trees had become covered with millions of yellowish-grey caterpillars, their Summary extinction was only prevented by the timely intervention of a woman.
This woman, whose name has deen lost in oblivion, noticed that the soft, sleeky cocoon, from which these caterpillars emerged, yielded 4 fibre that made up into materi which was both pliable, and able to take on a permanence of colour: She begged for time to experiment and, as a result, was instrumental in endowing woman with her most lovely heritage of the times. Io was not long before enterprising merchants, observing how this material enhanced the beauty of their women-folk, took it with them on their periodic journeys to the Mediterranean then the centre of the civilized world. More than literally, then was worth weight in gold, in the case of each new empire it seemed as if the introduction of the product of the mulberry tree set the seal to its ization. The King of Syria clothed his queen in it. Women it ancient Greece utilized it to fashion a new drapery which wound round the body ard over the shoulders. From ancient Rome-Imperial Cxesar sent our ambassadors to the far!
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