48 OUR VANISHING FORESTS 



and that, along with sugar cane refuse and other 

 fibrous materials, forms the chief ingredient. 



A department store would certainly hesitate to 

 make a window display of "paper" stockings, nor 

 would the term be correct. Nevertheless the raw 

 material used for artificial silks is largely the same 

 as that used in paper manufacture, and spruce fibres, 

 obtained by a chemical process, are woven into 

 hosiery and other articles quite as effectively and 

 durably as real silk-worm silk. 



Many lacquered bowls and dishes are made of 

 wood pulp and old paper boiled and ground up with 

 glue and paste. This material, known as papier 

 mache, has recently been used very widely for in- 

 terior decorating effects. Pressed into molded forms 

 of flowers, baskets and other ornaments for ceil- 

 ings, walls, mantel pieces, etc., it is very easily 

 handled and somewhat less brittle than pure plaster. 

 Celluloid, which is ordinarily a product obtained 

 from cotton cellulose treated with nitric acid, has 

 also been manufactured from wood pulp. Indeed 

 the list of all wood pulp and paper products is 

 endless. 



The pulp and paper industry faces the future 

 with even less confidence than do the majority of 

 wood users. It is so highly organized and so vast 

 that it long ago began to look ahead and wonder 



