The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1921-02-03
LAND AND SEA GIVE UP
TREASURES FOR WOMEN
Hundreds Animals Required for One
Fur Carelessly Used.

Fur Carelessly Used.
With the gradual return to pre-war
conditions man lays aside his uniform
and dons his patent leather pumps
and high hat to accompany the COM
panion of his softer moods to the op-
era. She, contrariwise to that policy
of nature for decking the male in bril-
liancy of coloring and plumage, tricks
herself out after fashion which
makes the sobriety of his white shirt
bosom and black coat only back
ground for her gorgeousness.
Woman has called on land and sea,
the birds of the air and the subterra-
mean channels of the earth to yield up
their treasures for her adornment,"
says a bulletin from the National Geo.
graphic Society.
GAS she lazily invites attention with
the gaily-colored ostrich fan which
she moves across the line of vision,
she is indeed an exotic thing of adj
miration and generosity's making.
Powerful birds on a farm in South
Africa probably had their tail and
wing feathers plucked and magnifi-
cent beast of the jungle in India or
the Belgian Congo snorted in rage
and pain when he gave up his life
that his tusks might make the slender
ivory handle to support the feathers
of the bauble.
"Carelessly tossed aside in the
warmth and light of the theatre lies
the lustrous sable wrap. The hundred
or more of little 18-inch dark brown
animals required to make this coat
tempted trappers into difficult and
dangerous enterprises on the frozen
areas of northern Russia and Siberia.
The fragrance that intrigues your
senses is probably the distilled petals
of roses grown in the fertile valleys of
Bulgaria. A Chinaman in Shantung
shed his queue to furnish the ma AERIAL
for the net that holds the coiffuIe in
unblemished continuous undulations.
and a smelly stockyard of Kansas City
or Chicago gave its refuse heap that
unobtrusive bone hairpins might hold
the smooth coils in place. The slow
and sure tortoise furnished the only
beautifully carved ornament of her
hair.
"The ropes of cleaning white pearls
that caress her throat were probably
gouged from the hearts of the huge
thick-shelled oysters of the South
Seas, Australia, Philippines and
Burma or from the small thin-shelled
ones Of Venezuela, Japan, Persia and
Ceylon. The platinum for the clasp
came from Colombia and the diamonds
from the dark interiors Of subter-
ranean depths in Brazil or South Afri-
ca, to be polished by diamond cutters
in Antwerp, Amsterdam or Bruges.
The tiny jewelled watch on her wrist,
kept probably to prove to its wearer
that time is no object in her world,
had the 175 pieces in its tiny 'insides'
made by Swiss workman whose skill
was so great that he made no mis-
takes in fitting in screws which to the
Impractical eye resemble dirt par
ticles.
''The soft lustrous silk of her Pa
quin-made gown acquired its simmer
in the looms of Lyons, France, which
prepares about one-third of all the
raw silk produced in or brought to Eu-
rope. The lace with which the artist
modiste varied the fabric probably
grew under the hands of diligent peas
ant women in the Vosges Mountains,
or in the cellars of rain-soaked Bel
GUM dwelling.
"The silver buckles on her pumps
were hammered by an artisan from
raw material CLEANED from the mines
of our own Rock Mountains or Great
Basin States, or from Mexico, which
for many years produced more than a
third of the worlds output. But the
pumps, most likely, were made in
Massachusetts and the silk stockings
in Wisconsin.
"Some little nun in the mountains
of Switzerland, far removed from such
an atmosphere as that in which the
American lady of leisure basks, pa
tiently piled her needle to fashion the
exquisite design which adorns the
handkerchief whose fabric was grown
in the fields of storm-torn Ireland.
Paris contributed the slender-fingered
kid gloves and the fragrant powder,
and some specialized old fellow in pre-
war Germany probably carefully
fround the lenses for the opera glasses
which milady casually levels at Ho-
mer, Caruso or Tetrazzini"