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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY MARCH

The Girl in the

MILK Dress

THINK I'll wear my wooden dress, dear. You

and Bobby con look smart in his new fish clothes.'

This sounds like a snatch of conversation either from a film which is trying to show how our early ancestors lived, or from a 'futuristic picture of the things that we may expect in the years to come.

But actually it is much more like present-day affairs, for the clothes people are wearing to-day aro made from all sorts of unpromis- ing materials.

Some of the materials mentioned In this article are at present being worn only in countries where the alm is to make as much as possible from home-produced materials.

Yet he would be a bold person who would like to say that within ten years we shan't find them on the market in this country-and even the people who wear them probably won't realise that they are anything out of the ordinary.

"E'LL start off with wood, which the modern

chemist transforms into

-rayon or artificial silk.

As an idea of how vast the rayan

trade has become, we shall prob- ably make 150,000,000 lb. of årtin- clal elk in this country during

1938, and there is a big rayon in- dustry in almost any country you

could care to mention.

ArtiDcial silk is really and truly

a compound known as cellulose. and wood is built up of celluloso and other materials, only the building into a tree is carried out by the most remarkable chemist- Nature.

Wood, chiefly from spruce and fr trees, is treated with chemicals, and the cellulose is sent on to the market in the form of thin slicets of what is known as sulphite wood pulp..

There are at least four different ways of handling the pulp to turn It into artificial silk.

WO

pro- viscoac rayon,

outstanding cesses give us

acetate and which make up most of our supply of artificial slik.

But the form called nitra-cellu- lase, which goes into explosives, is particularly interesting, as an Eng- lishman, Dr. Hooke, suggested as long ago as 1804, that artificial nilk might be made in this form.

In the two big modern rayon processes the wood pulp is dissolved in certain chemicals to give a syrupy liquid. This is then squirted through a number of very fine holes, and the threads which come out fall into a tank full of acid or alkall to form threads which can be woven into the most beautiful and delicate cloths.

The possibilities of wood becom- Ing clothes don't end there, how- ever, Artificial silk can be turned into a material which is much more like wool than silk. It the long continuous threads of rayon are cut into short pieces and these pieces are then twisted up to- gother into a thread, we get what is known ng staple fibre.

As a result of continuous ex- periments they are now able to give staple fibre the same "erlmp"

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No, she may not be wearing one yet, but scientists have found how to make dresses from woood, and from milk, and they'll look just as nice as the model here.

as wool, and even to imitate the sort of scales that you can see on wool when you look at it under n microscope.

Wood isn't going to be allowed to have thinga all its OW way, though, as a source of artificial textile fabrics, and in the last year or so big advances have been made in manufacturing wool out of milk, Here again, milk wool isn't an entirely new thing, for a process for making milk into a fibro sult- able for weaving was patented in

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Germany about 30 years ago.

To

all intents and purposes, though, we look on milk wool as being an Italian invention, and it generally goes under the name of Lanital, which the Itallan inventors gave to it.

The starting point for Lanital is a substance known B.S casoln, which is found chiefly in skim milk, but which can also be pre- pared from certain kinds of beans. If you take skim milk and re- move all the butter-milK and

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1 Few women, they say, are good at this branch of knowledge but numbers cannot be divorced from it (11).

7 Disease of which the end is past

(7).

a Fabulous monster (7).

10 Add In this valley to make

happy (4).

11 Not a pleasing name for a girl

(5).

13 This

Hitle drink is probably larger than it sounds (4). 15 State (3),

17 This canine is certainly not

Great Dane (two words-3, 3).

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20 Not, an Indian cook; hides are

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not sweet anyhow (3),

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27 Much the same as 10 across but

further south (4).

28 Common place (5).

29 Not an artists' masterpiece cer-

tainly (4).

32 "Die calm" (anag). (7).

33 The instes of many royalties

(7).

34 No, this maid of old was not

necessarily a boro: (11). -

DOWN:

1 Ridiculous, acting perhaps (7).

3 A hard wood (4),

3 Book of the O.T. (8),

4 This ship might have belonged

to the Merchant of Venice

5 Flower (4),

10(0);

8 Vegetable colouring matter. (7): 7: Epithet for a;, raving blonde.

(11),

water the casein remains. Chemists treat the casein with certain materials and turn it into a form in which it can be forced through fine nozzles, just as in the manu- facture of artifelal silk.

It is collected in a tank of acid, washed with water to remove any traçes of acid, and is then dried before passing on to the manufac- turer to be made up into suits.

TN the last few weeks another new-substitute fabrio has been an- nounced-this time by Germany. The source this time la not wood or milk, but fish.

Up to the present, little informa- tion has been given about this pro- cess, but apparently albumen from Ash-and we know albumen best

as the material which makes up the white of an egg-ls treated by the chemist, turned into a sultable solution, and, once again, formed into threads by forcing it through a series of fine holes.

If this fish wool is mixed with artificial silk and woven up into cloth, the resulting material is said to be strong. to wear well, and to give clothes which are warmer than similar garments made from rayon. The synthetic material isn't

going to have it all its own way, however, and here is a very short note on some amazing tests that the Russians have carried out recently.

They experimented with special food for the sheep, giving them small doses of a sub- stance called thallium,

With certain doses the sheep grew fleeces which were alrendy eploured, so that there would not be any need to dye the wool. With a change in the dose the wool kept its ordinary colour, but the sheep moulted, and so saved all the trouble of shearing.

This work hasn't gone very far yet, as obviously it isn't like an and ordinary chemical process,

in the earliest attempts they found that they got coloured wool, but killed the sheepl

We may well wonder, then, what we shall wear next, for the modern scientist seems able to turn almost anything into something else.

CROSSWORDS

9 These groups of wanderers are.

obviously sang (two words-5, 0).

12 A crocodile or an alligator per-

hops (7),

14 Beverage ($).

16 A mpson of the insect world

(5).

18 Can this mon be handsome?

(3).

10 Precious stone (3),

22 One of the weasel family, not necessarily from central Europe (7).

24, River of Ireland (7).

25 A sweet-scented flower (0).

20 A great many permit this flower

(0).

30 The deserts of the brave (4), 31 "Is Kim the most often read of his Kipling volumes?" (hid- den) (4).

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