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Show WEAR EXPLOSIVE GOWNS. Woman Oowned In ImlUtlon Silk That Has dun Cotton (or Basis, "Science, which lately furnlslied a mechanical substitute for tho horse, has now" set about putting the lowly Bllkworm out of business," writes Clarence Clar-ence Hutton, In the Technical World Magazine. Almost unknown In the United State!, the manufacture of artificial silk has been on n commercial basis In Franco for several years, tho dally production pro-duction being now about Beven tons. In forming n chemical compound corresponding to tho viscous .fluid out of which the silkworm renins his delicate deli-cate thread, tho French phemUts found, Btrangely enough, that tho best substitute sub-stitute was a solution of gun cotton, which also serves as tho .basis for the most powerful nnd deadly of modern explosives. To what e:.'. .tt this gun-cotton gun-cotton silk Is relieved of explohlve qualities beforo being woc.i Into laces and dress fabrics, seems to bo somo-what somo-what questionable. Certainly a young woman gowned In gun cotton and wearing a dainty nitroglycerin wrap about her white shoulders, would, be n most formidable, not to sny dangerous object. If tho new fabric eVcr becomes popular In this country It will plainly bo necessary to warn young men not to approach Its wearers with lighted clgarottos or oUior combustibles in their hands. And sparking will become be-come a most hazardous occupation. |