The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-11-12

nal did not survive the SHINING opera
ton. They wore kid gloves, and after the
session was over the ladies formed into
little groups, and the most OF them began
20 talk about furs.
One Of the ladies, whose soft eyes had
more than once filled with tears while
speaking of the wanton slaughter OF birds,
said that she was having long mantle
made of moire astrakhan. Tt would take
4O of these skins to make her wrap at So
each, but ii was TO be something elegant
when done. / WAS rot among the speak
crs, or / should have liked to rise and say
something about that beautiful fur called
moirc astrakhan. / wonder how many
women who wear that fur know that it
has cost the life not only of the little ami
NAL, but also that of the mother. She Is
cruelty murdered just before the time for
Der young TO be born, and the unborn
creature is instantly skinned before the
hair has chance to curl. 1t is afterward
dyed TO that glossy black.
The curled astrakhan or Persian is pro-
duced in manner scarcely less cruel.
The animal as soon as it is born is sewed
into n sack OF coarse cloth, with its head
and feet out. 1t may live in this way a
few miserable weeks, when il is sacrificed.
The hair is by that time kinked up close
". 1t takes hundreds Of crInines, little
creatures no larger than ones hand when
living, to make a medium sized wrap, and
thousands upon thousands of other ami
mails are killed TO obtain their fur tc
adOrn beauty. Perhaps these women think
with Lockyer:
You lucky little kid,
You persisted, you did,
For my sweet.
From the beginning / think women
must have been boru cruel. Men as soon
Us they could find wool, cotton, fax and
linen left off wearing furs, but no woman
is perfectly happy without something
that costs not only money, but life and
blood do not blame the tender hearted
ones for saying all they DO against the
slaughter of the birds for ornaments, but
why do they never say anything against
the killing of animals, the boiling of tho
silkworms and such things? Why are they
not consistent enough TO wear cotton
gloves, only wooden and cotton fiber, with
perhaps n little linen, too, when tho
weather permitsf But, then, who ever
knew n consistent person. 1t does look
odd, though, that the men who do the kill
ing don't wear the furs, ;lId the women
who preach kindness, etc, are the ones
who will have them, no matter If baby
seals and goat mothers cry out pitifully
against it,
But, after all, there IS a sense of COM
fort that nothing else can give in n warm
far garment. 1t not only feels nice, but
looks so, too, and so the wearers quietly
ignore the slaughter of the animals and
talk about the inhumanity toward the
birds. What with flowers, ribbon velvets
and lace and metals and Jewels they can
adorn their hats without feathers, but
furs are n necessity, and besides the ami
mails, being dead, do not need their skins
any longer That is how they reason,
and think 1 did, too, during the past
week. 1 have been TO the openings" of
the swell fur houses, and if anything is
calculated TO blunt the sensibilitics on the
point of the slaughter of the animals it is
10 look at, admire and handle the beauti-
ful garments made of fur.
First among all furs is the Russian sa-
bic. l saw a mantle of that peerless fur
lined with ermine The mantle was about