Show THE SILK OF ITALY Y jo JL JL ja jl J HOW AND THIS INDUSTRY IS 13 CARRIED ON employment for many or of trie ane women and children of the sunny land from co coon to fabric vow how many ladles ladies think of tia the won darful transformation through lh which tho the golden thial tae pr arclous clous proof prod act ot of the laborious silkworm must go before the woven machas their hands yet to the facture ol of silk bilk step by step in every f from ra in the cocoon state until th thi ellk is made into blivins ready for tho the weaver w aver Is ia both interesting and aej in fin tIve italy stands first la in lit in the ibe silk bilk spinning ni manufacture then come coma prune prane e gimang austria and stain hungary has only lately taken to the roaring rearing of tho silkworm eng land cannot do it on account of her cold climate the greatest grea teet part of thu the silk bilk pi produced deduced in italy comes from tho the I 1 01 and Venct venetian lan regions but produces a quality ot of silk bilk sup kilor to any other rhose who have never visit d an italian spinning mill can have no adequate idea of thu lives led by tho the many women ot from 12 to 60 yeara ot of age employed few ot of us think of the obscure existence exist aca of these theao wom on en when the wonderful products of their work are before us its most of the spinning mills in n italy are in villages or small email towns and the workers aro are rIne tally girls from tho the same place or from the neighboring villages vil lags these poor girls earn from 60 50 cen times to a franc a day at most they walk fur for brills to roach reach tho the mill early in the he morning and go home at dusk on their way they sing popular songs Ilo however wever scanty the he wages may bo be borno peasants rio nio so BO poor that they ara glad to earn them working 12 houra a day in heated rooms in which even in cintel wintel the heat beat la is oppressive the cocoons coc oona when first sent to the aie spread over a table to bo be from the bright yellow a very fine quality cornea comes and from tho the faulty ones of ourse an interior inferior quality when the choice la is made the cocoons ae a a washed in hot witter water and r rie to left in it for some soine to got get cool d afeei tho the washing and looking coking vie the cocoons tore are put in batte s for when this bopf ri tion to la the be cocoons oco oni with their silk ahr ads form tax a kind ot of ikin arc an placa in other babina and the weaving work beich bo anft As in all th who altu operations those cooj babins contain lioi hot watfa and alber it in a workwoman attending to eail one of tb ahm m afeei thin bit last bath the allic thead la Is compit pl detached deti uhel from the cocoon and acu accurately guld ed 1 the wor workwoman koman ti ili wound round a spinning choal forming a ski in when the ski skeins ins art an r ad hey urd ara taken into another icom chiere they are looked over and got ready for weaving I 1 lastly allily the are tikon into tho the room the Is IV preparing the skeins of silk thread id 19 treated the rhe thread la Is wound round a with a mano meter which Is put into motion by i handle the skeins are at last twist ed and thrown into baskets after be ing ice carefully careful lv they ate aie sc bont tit to the weaving mills all these operations are for the finest silk bilk used only for expensive materials the coarser bilk which aich la Is used to nolte cl cravats shawls bed covers and ladies blouses klousis that in appe alane e are of the finest quality but ate aie dono done for after a fortnight fortnights fort nights a wear Is theat ed somewhat diffor tnt and what hat becomes of the industrious little worm tho the patient untiring creature that for ninny days has worked hard to con its golden prison even after death after being cooked and re cooked in boiling water the worm Is woith something it makes an excel lont manure for hemp and flax plan nations |