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Show COLD STORAGE FOR SILKa. Carious roM novenlcd by Varyla. Ttu psratures. nw silk Is sold by weight, and when stored in ordinary warehouse- It dries and naturally decreases In value. Ily storing It in a cold vault tho moisture la preserved and tho silk keeps Its weight. There Is another curious fact nbout the cold storago of silk. It was discovered some years ago that silk In winter usually usu-ally had a finer luster than In summer. Tho cold air vtos supposod to bo ac-cmmtablo ac-cmmtablo for tho change, and an experiment ex-periment was tried In keeping baled of tilk In cold rooms for comparison with others on tho (.tore counters. The cold silk then appeared to bo of a much liner quality, when In reality It was from tho same loom. Aa soon as this fact became gcnorally recognized tho largo Bilk doalors went to tho cold storago warehouses nnd bad their sllWt placed In freezing vaults. In soma cases the thermometer Is kept as low ns 1 ten degrees, and when tho bales nro taken out they feel Uko blocks of Ico Kom Anns keep most of their Ktock in storago, and only tako silk out In quantities quan-tities equal to tho anticipated talcs of jio day, for tho luster ucqulred by freezing soon disappears after exposure on tho bargain counter. Itisnsscrtod that nn Inferior grade of Ilk while extremely ex-tremely cold has tho feeling aud appearance ap-pearance of a much higher grade which has not been frozen, while, on the other hand, It has been found that the boat grades are not improved by the arctlo i treatment. 1 .ii i - - |