Garfield County News | 1926-10-15 | Page 7 | Silk Long in Use

silk long in use silk Is almost as old as hi history atory and alid silkworms were raised in china pearly nearly three thousand years before the chris 1 ilan era and as their mission then was tile tho same as it Is today we may assume that the ancient fin clent merchants dealt in the genuino article r the file chinese gitar ded tile the secret ol oi its manufacture very carefully and silkworms wera 6 only brought to tho the western world by byln smuggled out of china by a fi missionary hiis onar v who roi con sealed them in a bamboo cabie 1