From the August 8, 1931 issue

TWO ARISTOCRATIC LADIES EMERGE FROM RETIREMENT

There is something about newly-emerged silkworm moths that makes one think of the ladies of Cathay or Cipangu, long ago and far away, clothed in silk spun by ancestors of todays silk worms.

In the cover picture of this weeks Science News Letter, Cornelia Clarke has made an admirable camera capture of that atmosphere, most palpable to the fingers of the eye, but not to be snared in words.