The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-31

USE OF FURs

Denver.-Says Practically Every
Modish Garment Will Show Touch OF
Fur.-Furs Of every description in the
greatest quantities will be used on
practically every garment of milady's
wardrobe this winter, according to II.
l.. MacWhirter, of a Denver dry goods
store. Instead Of combining themselves
to few bands Of narrow fur Of various
kinds for trimming, the style makers
(he predicts> will use fur of all widths,
even up to II and Is inches, and in q
number of new ways this fall
The very new broad landings owing
to their extreme cost. will be used only
for edging coats, or about the bottom Of
skirts. The narrow bands, however, will
be used on gowns, on waists and on the
new neclWear. Beaver, SEAL coney,
mink, skunk and sable opossum, blue
fox. mole, wolf, French seal, squirrel.
ermine and lynx are a few Of the count
less varieties which are being shown.
The narrowest landings are half inch
vide. Practically no imitation furs will
he shown by Mac Winter.
Closed Season for Seal Has Reestab-
ished Great American lndustry.-Hugh
NJ Smith, in the National Geoera pfic
Magazine, says:
The bureau Of fisheries is the official
custodian of the most valuable herd Of
animals that any government of the
world possesses. This is the herd of fur
seals which roam over the eastern side
Of the north Pacific ocean and return
for breeding purposes to the Pribilof Is
lands.
After being sadly decimated by in
discriminate slaughter at sea, the herd
las been rapidly recuperating under the
influence Of an international agreement,
and soon the fur seals may be as num-
erous as when they came into the pos
session OF the United States govern
ment with the purchase of Alaska
The fact that the only land to which
these animals ever resort is two islets in
BerinS sea belonging to the United
States gives our government a claim to
possession such as is exercised over no
other wild creatures of water land, or
air This governmental ownership or
jurisdiction is the only reason why the
FUR seal has not long ago succumued to
the fate that it rapidly overtaking all
the other large marine animals.
In the summer of 1916 more than
100000 young seals will have been
added to the Alaskan seal herd, whose
total strength will then be upward Of
100000 individuals OF all classes. For
seals have been utilized for the food
purposes of the natives; but after the
present close time law expires, in 1917,
there will be available for commercial
use many young male seals, which add
nothing to the reproductive capacity of
Tor their skins and other products
In fact, the seal herd may be man
aged after the manner Of herd OF
cattle or sheep, and if handled in a
strictly scientific way will add to the
federal treasury a very handsome reve-
nue. which will increase yearly as long
as the existing international arrange
ment continues
MeanWhAe a revolution will have oc-
Cured in the worlds fur seal trade, for
the department OF commerce has
changed the old order Of things, and for
the first time, this American product,
belonging to the American public and
most largely used by American women.
will be sold in an American market, in
stead Of being sent abroad for sale, and
the peculiar dressing and dyeing pro-
cess, which is necessary to bring out
the beautiful qualities of the Alaskan
sealskin, will likewise have been
brought from abroad and established in
America"