Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1902 — Threads from Tarantulas. [ARTICLE]

Threads from Tarantulas.

Tarantulas are now bred in Australia for their webs, the filaments of which are made into thread for balloons. Each tarantula yields from twenty to forty yards of filament, of which eight twisted together form a single thread of sufficient stoutness, and it is much lighter than silk. When you swear, ever notice how guilty you feel? If you do not feel ashamed when you swear, you are not a decent man. Still, there are men who swear in the presence of women and children, and seem to think it “smart.” Men of this sort never amount to anything; they never learn. If the newspapers didn’t roast the effiee holders some of them would never get done. ■A woman shouldn’t attempt to look coy after she Is thlrty three or four.