Show GERMAN JAi HOSE ROSE LOSE FAVOR The serviceable but not beautiful cotton stockings of the German is rapidly losing such favor as it had inthe in the United States before the war Figures made public by the textile textile tex tex- tile division of the department of commerce show that German exports exports exports ex ex- ports of or cotton hosiery to the United Unit Unit- United ed States are less than third one-third as great as In 1913 On the Ithe other hand it Is unofficially unofficial unofficial- ly reported that In the tho last year Japanese silk worms died from overwork or suffered nervous nervous nervous nerv nerv- ous breakdowns trying to supply the American demand for silk stockings |