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...notice in a letter from A. Landers, TIME, Oct. 29, page 4, that he asks Alvin G. Anderson in a rather sarcastic way if he has heard that little one: "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow...
Evidently Mr. Landers is a bit behind "TIME" as you will see by examining the enclosed clipping descriptive of just such a purse made out of a sow's ear by the well known chemical engineers, Arthur D. Little, Inc., of Cambridge, Mass...
Making the silk from a sow's ear was a chemical tour de force not at all practical. Artificial silk is made from vegetable matter, cellulose...
Apropos of the little Irish ditty "The pig in the parlor;" has Alvin G. Anderson heard that little one "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow...
...seem that foremost British statesmen will soon be known as "piggy people." For some years, the hobby of pig keeping has been pursued by His Majesty's Prime Minister, the Right Honorable Stanley Baldwin; but last week despatches significantly announced that prizes have now been taken by a sow and a litter, respectively, hailing from the piggeries of two more Cabinet ministers. The sow appertains to His Majesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Honorable Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, rubicund, jovial and a smart vote getter (see col. 3). The prize litter was called by scurrilous correspondents...