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Show Celluloid Silk. In discussing the latest development in the line of bilk imitation, an English contemporary says: "Celluloid 'silk' is a cleverly fabricated tissue, which ought to be repressed by common consent, or, if necessary, by parliamentary prohibition. prohibi-tion. Nothing so useful to dishonest dealers and so dangerously inflammable has hitherto been invented in the way of clothing. It is certainly cheap and handsome, hand-some, und is therefore more tempting to the thoughtless, or the defrauded, who may be induced to buy as 'silk' a material mate-rial which a spark would inflame, and which would burn with the fierceness of a rag steeped in petroleum. It may be in the future possible to lessen this inflammability, in-flammability, but the small sample referred re-ferred to went off like a flash, and we may assume it was as fire proof as can at the present time be made." |