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...successfully used after the dance, as rattlesnake venom works swiftly into the circulatory system, especially when the blood is circulating faster through exercise. I am led to believe the Hopi either goads the snakes into biting a soft substance such as a ball of cotton or soft cloth or "milks'" the snakes immediately before the dance. The "milking'' process is done by holding the rattler behind the head and having it strike into a fabric or parchment tightly drawn across the mouth of a jar or glass, thus forcing the venom out of the sacs into...
...metres of cloth woven in seven Moscow mills which once belonged to Tsarist Millionaire Morozov, over 7,000,000 metres have had to be discarded as "spoiled and useless...
...sunset. There is nothing very startling about what goes on, but it all seems very pleasant. The cheerful natives, amazingly handsome, dressed for hot weather, have all the paraphernalia of civilization except machines. They spend the morning marketing, chatting, weaving, carving statues, attaching gold leaf to bolts of cloth, swimming, raising rice, flying kites with prodigious, sarcastic tails. Main event of a high-grade Bali day is a cremation, preceded by dances, bull races, prayers. Corpses of dead Balinese are placed in ornamental towers mounted on floats to be carried about the island. After a cremation, the ashes are scattered...
Rough crepe is an old silk product but the demand for it has always been nominal. All crepes are woven on large looms with some threads highly twisted. When the cloth is removed these threads tend to untwist, giving it a rough or pebbly appearance. Rayon, though not so elastic as silk, is also used for crepes and rayon mills are sharing in the present boom...
...novel about six generations in a North of England cloth manufacturing family needs a strong theme to hold it together. Authoress Bentley's theme is the old one about how machines, as they are gradually installed at Syke Mill, drive a painful wedge between employer and employes. The Oldroyds own Syke Mill. The first Oldroyd is murdered by his workmen in 1812 for setting up weaving frames. His son Will marries the sister of one of the murderers. Will's legitimate son Brigg and his bastard son Jonathan quarrel over workers' rights. Brigg marries the daughter of a foreman. Their...