Show I SILK FROM COTTON I I Is a classic Joke says the Chron ique Induslrlelle as quoted In Cosmos to say In speaking of silk of poor I quality that It Is I half silk and all cotton I cot-ton but this It appears Is In a fair way I to be actually realized as n cotton fiber I I J can be changed Into a silky thread that I has exactly the same durable brilliancy u a thread of real silk The operation that the cotton undergoes to bring i abut this result Is called tion under CRled mercej ton tenlon ThlH odd rcerz fdcrln from Word lD the nan or tho inventor or Lhf IJocess In ib Abut fifty years I Primitive form I cata ago n French Int nlrC Mcrcer ShOWed that che Cotton when subjecCd to the tcloxt oC I Llon con contrated adds or alkalies COI anti has aImle8 contrlcl a greater affinity formordt And dyes but itl9 only mordntn has been recently that It Ij 1 n known that this ncrcriia merceni tron mcrcerJz gives also a brilliant brllant luster to lh tint cotton that undergoes It i thl undergos The was then I prO r 1 wn Improved the cottoii stretched violently during COlon mcrccrl WItS ration and when an energetic I vms added to the tension rsetc tiuor rubbing re colvcd a permanent luutcr It thueTeak permanent IUtter thti replace allkTransIated I thl6 Lit cin j err Digest thOLIt i |