Show i WOMEN SAVE t OSTRICH TRADE h OF AFRICA Fashion Comes to Rescue of a Declining g Business Ey By Edward M Thierry ilE S. S A. A staff taff Correspondent With I African Ex- Ex Universal I i Ii Ii i I I ORT RT South Africa e IS Have 15 Have you ou an nn ostrich feather I I our ur hat Then youve you've helped to toI o lh South Africa o rich feathers leathers and diamonds are arc I IV h I industries here and ad Amerl- Amerl credit for tor are given Jr he ostrich business has been saved saved J I n 1 lingering death Prices ar are hit hit- s in 1111 lie high hish places again after alter bayed have hav- hav e ed I r reached t ITI lowest level leel In his his- 1 WOMEN MEN SAVE MARKET fere re in fl Port Tort Elizabeth the center I jie e feather market the ostrich I Tanner armera feather experts exporting and auctioneers are ore singing i of America particularly AmerIca particularly Its Us en For they hey are re emerging from ar day Before Detore the war the tile averl aver- aver l C price for COI export at Port Eliza Ellza- Mt Il was 1470 a. a pound th the record JI i e I CC 1558 In Tn 1915 the they were were- I ow w a as 2 68 a pound Which Mrs Wife Ite ilso allo gives gl you ou an Idea II t the middleman's profit Is 1st riches are ore as thick thIel as flies files in tr rica ca You see FeC eo them everywhere re In South Africa re the war Low prices caused L U iy y farmers to turn loose their lr birds Ire eh ch Is the 11 cause 1111 of at the de ed cd or nt f wild ostriches which ot of no US use tile because he-causo the feathers feather poor Ita TAME VI LD BIRDS lid birds strangely are not pug- pug DB bus ous like tami ones onEl The latter are areg g 3 Ill customS especially cocks In the ting season eason They take a n leaping le de said to bo he two thirty-two feet with marvelous agility ng down ig down a n man with a n blow of at the foot I You an ran keep them off otto It youre you're tio w fr Y by ticking sticking a R. long pole tipped wit fl In the face Or a arp sharp harp rp blow from a stick will break I or nee neck Ie La o ostriches ar ares are fed on alfalfa aJala Hj les and broken bones bones- A pair three t times imp a It year hatching batching as IlS hiji Ji as ss fn eggs each Ellch time Os- Os b 11 egg ess art are on Oil sale Rale here nu Bu the they A eatable le only as an omelet one egg eggI I Icing for foi 11 JI whole hoarding house hOUS 1 11 il f rathe ome orne hero and are sold b T I taw tas fl ono table holding 1000 1000 1 wor li ii nf or flathers already I sorted ted I lack ack nrc If most mOlt valuable al al- the whites tile lire larger nine Black 1 there r I in I. I in- in l Willie white easier asler lh h nan n w on s oni-s in i 1 11 b hI d dyed e black |