Show A SKIN GAME In describing the animals that supply most moat of ot tho ho furs on the marl market et no account account account ac ac- ac- ac count would bo be complete completo without reference ret ref to tho ho host of or imitation furs that are aro sold Apart Aart from their deceptive appearance there I is nothing fraudulent about these faked skins since the tho names n under which they thc are aro traded are mostly sanctioned by the London chamber chamber cham chum ber of oC commerce Combed skins of white lambs Jambs from central Asia are called Iceland nd fox fur tur comes from kids Dyed Ded goat oat Is called bear goat and dyed hare bare sable hare horo or fox ox hare Calfskins Calfskins Calf CaU- skins pass pas as ag Siberian pon pony Finally Final Final- ly 1 rabbi rabbits wild and tame tamo of ot various colors generally dyed and often ofton sheared or prepared In other ways are arc traded under a a. number of ot curious titles such Auch as coney concy chinchilla cone coney seal or musquash coney electric Inland or coast seal mock or French ermine perhaps and and perhaps strangest of all Baltic all Baltic lynx Many too are the tho devices apart from dyeing and clipping adopted for disguising tho the Identity o 01 of cheap furs Imitation heads of ot foxes or fitch with beads or I or I for eyes mid and a n piece of or black blackwood blackwood wood or for a nose are arc shaped on the tho skins of rabbits or cats cata and pieces of oC cats cats' ts' ts tails are arc attached to all manner of or fur fun to give them a 1 fictitious re resemblance reD resemblance re- re D semblance to sable Yet so 80 little do dothe the tho wearers know of or natural history that the thc they accept those these Impossible Impassible combinations combinations com com- as ps unaltered skins of ot genuine genuino wild animals R. R. R I. I F R R. R s. s in tho Strand Magazine for March |