The Opelousas courier., 1902-05-10
FLAGS FOR TIE WORLD,
ENGLAND, MEXICO AND CUBA
COME HERE TO BUY.

COME HERE TO BUY.
American-Made Flags Floating Over
Australia and Over French Yachts
Great Quantities Exported-We Are
Getting More Patriotic at Home AIse
1--WE export from this coGnSzy 40
England" said a New York flag maker,
great numbers of the smaller printed
cotton flags, ranging in size from flags
Of two by three inches to flags of "a by
IS inches.
"Of small flags of American manu-
facture there were sold in England at
the time Of the Jubilee celebration
thousands of gross. We shall sell
them thousands of gross for the cor
onation celebration.
with their cheaper labor they can
make bunting flags in England cheap
er than We can make them, but when
it comes to machine-printed cotton
flags we can make them here and sell
them in England cheaper than they
can make them for themselves.
I'VE sell bunting yacht flags to a
number of yacht clubs in France, this
trade having ome about originally
through the purchase of flags by Amer
lean members of these clubs.
ITO Canada we sell considerable
quantities of flags, British faga and
flags of the Dominion. The greatest
DrOn0r$ion ~ fboco owe of nr;D&od nh.
lin such as we sell to England, and are
bought in Canada, as in England, in
large numbers on the occasion of any
celebration which calls for a display
of flags. But to Canada we sell also
silk flags, and some bunting flags, too.
Mexico buys perhaps 2 per cent.
of it's flags of all sorts in the United
States. Cuba buys here nine-tenths
of all its flags, and we sell in the Brit
ish island of Jamaica and in the other
British island possessions in this hem
isphere.
Australia buys the greater part of
all its flags, cotton, silk and bunting
flags of Great Britain and of it's own
Commonwealth in this country. It is
more than likely that the British or
the Australian flag seen floating in
Melbourne or Sydney or elsewhere in
the island continent was made in
America and bought in New York.
There are mor flags sold in gro
portion to the population in republics
than in countries under a m%onarchfal
form of government, and there are
moro flags in proportion to the popula-
ton sold in long settled than in more
newly settled regions. Thus there
are more flags to the population sold
in the United States than in any other
country on earth, and more sold in the
East than in the West.
'This doesn't mean that the West Is
less patriotic, but tina. it is still more
or less busy getting settled. There are
other things it needs before flags.
But the aggregate consumption of
flags in this country is steadily increas-
ing, and it is increasing proportionate-
ly faster than the population. In
more and more homes has the flag
to be considered a necessity, that
is to say, an essential part of the
household equipment, for use upon oc-
.casion, and the spread of country with
in which the flag is thus held is all
the time widening.
"If their patriotism can be reckon
ed by the display of flags they make,
then the three most patriotic cities in
the country are Philadelphia. New
York and Boston. On regularly re-
curing holidays of national observ-
calling forth patriotic sentiment,
as the Fourth of July and Washing
Birthday, Philadelphia makes a
more liberal display of flags than New
York. But on great special occasions,
awakening deep feeling. New York
puts out the greater number of flags
by far.
1.-THE latest thing in flags is found in
the handsome little silk flag that is
now so often used for decorative pur-
poses, or for a souvenir, at banquets
If a patriotic or social or military char
These little silken flags, ma
tional flags in miniature, are now tol
be had in representations of the flags
Of fifty or more nations. New York
Sun.