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cocoons were vastly superior to most shown at 

 that time by other silk-producing countries. 



Soon after the first crop of silk had been raised, 

 the Japanese, while fully convinced that we had 

 the best country in the world for silk-culture, for 

 want of means to go into the business, departed 

 to other lines of work; and the ladies returned 

 to the routine of every-day life. Some put in 

 trees, but as there was no hope of very immediate 

 returns, interest in the business almost died out. 



But the writer, having full confidence in the 

 great possibilities of our glorious land, kept on 

 experimenting in a small way with worms, and 

 millers, and eggs, and had as her chief reward 

 the consciousness of doing good, by continuing 

 to unfold new living truths from this most 

 wonderful book of nature. 



My Miniature Silk-works have long proved to 

 be one of the chief attractions of tourists from all 

 parts of the world. 



I sent an exhibit to the Midwinter Fair held 

 in San Francisco in 1893. In this I showed 

 samples of fine cocoons, reeled silk from the 

 seventh crop of worms that season; also, raw 

 silk, sewing-silk, and a variety of silken souvenirs. 

 Some time after that I sent a small exhibit to the 

 Mechanics' Fair (through the Carlson-Currier 

 Company), and still later, by request of the 



