Show HOW PAPER CAME TO BE A wasp in a garden was inspiration to a nipponese who could grasp opportunity long cef years rs ao ac a c o a japanese walked through his pretty garden to his home his hands bands were clasped behind his back and he be was thinking as he crossed the bridge to pluck a fresh wisteria blossom that hung bung just over hla his head bead this little gentleman had a great many parcels to send out from his shop every week and he be had bad always wrapped them in silk but this was expensive material and he be needed something cheaper tor for his purpose all at once a wasp came hitting flitting toward him but he thrust it away that it might inight not nip bid nose and lot lo 10 at his hand band was a wasps nest it was made of thin wood pulp softened into a thin paste byi by the jaws of the insect then formed and left to dry why can cant I 1 do that same thing thought the japanese merchant get certain wood form it into a pulp by means of water from the river and make something like this wasps nest jn consistency to wrap about my packages so this was the way paper was at at discovered A wasp flew across the B path of a man who walked one day is hn u vine ire clad garden of old japan zam sams horn |