The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-10-13
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This question is asked in All the Year
Found in an article from which we make
few extracts
"What shall we say of the kids? If it be
matter of wonder where all the seals come
from, how much more wonderful, how
Supplying and stunning, Is the thought OF
the myriads of young goats, whose exist
ence is absolutely necessary to furnish the
gloves Of the whole civilized world! Kids
lows il that there exist six yards of ground
anywhere without kids browsing thereon:
one would expect that the earth would be
tccming and sWarmng with kids. In every
town in England, in France, IN Europe,
gloves made of what ut least processes to he
the skin of the kid are exposed for sale !;
while in the large capitals the number OF
shops devoted exclusively TO the diffusion OF
Kid Gloves is almost Incredible. Taking
Paris and London alone, and occupying
ourselves only with few OF the principal
thorourhfares, we should find enough of
such shops to suggest the existence some
where of such tlocks of kids as would over
run at least all the pasture lands OF the
civilized earth.
Il speak of the supply of the raw mate
rial, and not the enormous multiplication
and sale of the gloves themselves. When
one remembers how many are the occasions
OF show and ceremony where gloves Of the
INVISIBLE. and how soon covering as they do
a part of the human frame which comes III
continual contact with I'LL sorts Of Objects
they become Soiled and unfit for Use, there
is no difficulty in understanding the sale OF
almost any number OF gloves that can be
manufactured. 1t is the multiplication Of
the kids of whose skins the gloves are made
that is the staggering subject OF reflection,
and it is in connection with tins, anu re-
,ofI ,,..Iu
in France, Italy, and Switzerland, and other
roat-producing countries, are the occasions
when the traveller encounters Kids III any
number, that find myself again and again
constrained to ask, o where and y where
are your glove-producing kids!
"'rhere was taste the other day for pug
dogs. Fashion had no sooner issued her
mandate on the subject than, behold III all
directions there were pugs. The earth APP
peared to TEEN with short noses and black
lnuZzles; and any one who wanted pug
(und chose to pay for iD was straightway
provided with one of those fascinating ami
mails. Is there any room for doubt that II
pheniXeS or uniforms were TO become the
fashion they would turn up by the score as
soon as wanted!
"The consumption of champagne is con-
fined to no particular place, nor to any
especial season OF the year. Always, every
where, by everybody, TINS 1aVoi1te drink Is
appreciated. One would think that the
supply required for this country alone, and
during that one period Of the year which
we call the season. would exhaust the
produce of all the vineyards the Champagne
district can furnish. Let the reader con-
slider the Derby Day, or merely take it in
conjunction with the Cup Day at Ascot.
and then endcavor to form some dimly-ap-
proximate notion of the quantity of cham
pagne required. There are those who have
seen the champagne dripping through the
floors of carriages on EPSON Downs; and
even those who have not been favored with
that rich experience, but have merely wit
messed the ordinary performances during
the luncheon hours there, are able TO form
a toleraDle accurate idea of the rate at which
champagne disappears on the occasion OF
hose wondr0us orgies,
!.At the Ascot Meeting it is the same
tory, The same at Goodwood, Doncastcr, |
! Newmarket. At all the minor races, at
IcnIey, at every regatta held at Cowes or
Tide, or anywhere, and on MI those occa-
ions of more private nature, at which we
ave lust seen the dish OF ployers' eggs