Evening star., 1920-11-21
Sterling Heilie Interviews Furrier 0
French Capital on Methods Used to Meet
Great Demand in Fur Trade Fancy
Name for the Hide of House Cat;
an Alias for the Skin Of Bunny

China style sable; Of kolinsky style
sable; Of natural skunk CHATS right. ,
style skunks: of real skunks style
skunks. and Of veritable natura
three. and very much 80.
Because the others are rabbit. OF
whats in namee" quotes Grun-
waldt. philosophizing on this other
trade-which he terms beautiful and
worthy. although it is not his-fron
his holy-of-hoIies in the Rue de la
Paix. These things are beautiful by
any name, but beautiful name
IadOrns them. Caratine? There is no
such animal. Dog de chine? 1t is
fveritable. natural dog. ull right; only.
NJ Is called by it's French name. chien,
in English. and dog in French
sounds better. Colombia is a real
fur--real rabbit"
/ The war did it-for the rich. in
those days Of shortage. when it was.
! furthermore. bad taste to be seen in
precious furs: and, nowadays all
/ girls profit by it.
! They make everything from rabbit
ichinchilla. mOleskin. skunk with long
/ hairs. nutria. sables. otter. beaver.
The name electric electric seal. cleo
! trio otter) refers to the electrical
process of pulling out the long hairs
Iof the rabbit, seal and nutria. Dyeing
has reached the position of great
srt. and French tact in the use of
Language helps. In old-time Russia.
could call it siberian sables- eat.
Nature, also. helps, by her confusing
variety.
| Nutria is. strictly. the ragondan. be-
tween water-rat and beaver. but it
/, takes good man to distinguish it.
alive. from the cOypu. equally beaver
like. water rat, which swarms the
great rivers of South America from
Hrazil to the Argentine. Up to re-
lcently. it was "trash"-just as the
/ illion and a half of North Ameri-
can muskrat skins which used TO be
auctioned at a single London sale as
! trash have become Hudson seal. an
! esteemed fur.
] Koiinsky is a real little Siberian
animal called kolonok, the size and
istyle of weasel. or like dark mink:
! II Is a dyed skin. but fashionable and
rather expensive. The civet and the
genet are equally real animals trav-
cling on their own names Nobody
calls them civet-cats or genet-cats.
any more. But lots Of cats are called
',civet.
IF they were called cat" says Grun-
waldt. who would buy them?"
OF civets and genets there are four
teen varieties, to get US all mixed up.
From the true Java civet. a ferocfous
tbig fellow, three and q half feet long
,al1 over North Africa and South Eu-
rope is all the difference between IT,
lger and tomcat. And the tomcat is in
the fur business on his own.
The nfarmot sees it's day at hand.
He is the prairiedog. he is the bear
mouse. the dog-mouse, the souslik.
In hiE most valued clan are ten spe-
cies. ard when he is well dressed he
ia wonderfully like sable. mink or
skunk.
But will he wear?
"1n Russia, in the old days" says
Grunwaldt, "and 1t is still true. every
where. when you bought your wife a
cable coat. it was for lifetime. She
handed It down to her daughter; and
It was for another lifetime. I will
show you something" he said 1.-The
two rsrest skins. perhaps. in the
world today. They come from Kam-
They were two veritable sea -otter
skins. very long ana narrow. almost
form. stiff, unworked, just
as they came from the far-away trap
per--and paid $4,000 francs before
they got to the Rue de la Paix. Their
value is the silvery CLINT of their
hairs. all short and velvety. The riv-5
er and lake otter have, regularly, long