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Show - - - - THE S ALT"' L"AKE - Magazine Section Magazine Section - - i Sunday, July, 23, 1916 73 73 5 o Z3N wmm win- - : an Interesting Discovery c by the United btateo :J Fisheries Bureau Has Given a Sensational Impetus to Millinery Enterprises. --fot; 0 v, -- " 7 " ( rW Am 4 AHA V ''V A V 3d 1 V n l jf' m us The European war stopped these .imports. And now, the flab eries bureau has' ascertained that there was never any good reason for getalong out ting the stuff.from abroad, because it is vastly" more isplentiful more Important) own sea coast than in European waters, and (what is far superior. the American product The But what. It will be asked, has this to do with in material question is, answer is: Everything in the world. For the animal an Is or, more not really sea moss at all. It is not a plant. It water In It the accurately speaking, colonies of animals. As It grows of method reprolooks like a plant. It develops buds such being Its to for off shift and proceed when The duction buds, "ripe," drop V Jelly-fisheare little themselves. .They Everybody who visits the seashore in the summer time is familiar, with They are among: the most curiously interesting of animals.- They contain more! water in proportion to their bulk thaa r. . If any other living creatures.. In fact, they are 99 per, cent, other clean surface, placed on a fresh sheet of blotting paper, or anyJelly-fis: will rematnJj of trace hours,-hardlythe a a few and left for Jelly-fis- h is the "Animated a Nothing but slight stain., .... , quote an eminent naturalist. For some years past the fisheries bureau has been making a studjry of the Jelly-fis"plant" in our own waters. It has found the stuff ij; to Florida immense "beds" all along the Atlantic coast everywhere of a quality superior to the imported article. But It waaj only the other day that one of Its exploring steamers, the Fish. Hawk, came upon an area of the Chesapeake bottom that yields, in quantity! practically inexhaustible, a variety that far surpasses in beauty anything of the kind hitherto known. t Here, it would seem, Is.the destined source of supply for the American millinery trade from this time on. That Industry can draw upon it Indefinitely, so long as fashion demands the material for the decoration of hats The stuff is exquisite in its arborescent texture, and, when dried and dyed, Is delicately soft and pliable. The recent studies made by the fisheries hureau have disclosed the fact that there are other species of "jelly-fisplants" which may ba useful. There is. for example, the plumi- equally or even more ' f era, or "plume-hearer,- " the name Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Chief of of which is sufficiently descriptive, the XJ. S. Pisheriea Bureau- - Another is the bougainvinia called ' 53 Jelly-fishes- ? ' - s. J jelly-fishes. y - sea-wate- ; j h lc "T. U . vsV - - h - v. ViV 'T ''A r sea-wate- r" h from-Main- h ' 3 .. r-- - '--- v f r after the flower of that name, be-- , cause of Its buds, which bell-shape- 4 Plant-Lik- e If .. UWW: Animals Frequently Suitable for Hat Decoration. - By Rene Bache . -- '"f , - 't 1 jelly-fishe- " - - " " . Uv. 1 X United States government fisheries bureau,-anask. The fisheries bureau (at Washington) does not ordinarily concern Itself with millinery matters. But here Is an exceptional case. By merest accident It has come across an Immense quantity of millinery eupplfes, of a kind highly esteemed In the trade, In Chesapeake bay. For several years past the big wholesale millinery houses in New York, Baltimore, and other cities have been Importing from Germany a sort of green stuff commonly called "sea moss," very pretty in itself, and suitable for trimming hats, especially in combination with artificial flowers. They have brought it over by hundreds of tons annually. i : ::. ' 1 so-call- d i Jelly-fishe- s. wont-derful- ly " s 1ND now, dear madam, how about a few for your summer hat? Or perhaps for your autumn headgear? They, are to be the mode. Sounds like a joke, of course; but It Isn't anything of the kind. If you are not Inclined to take It seriously, write a line to the In due time drop t)ff the parent steni d as Most beautiful of all, however, la the "ostrich plume," delicate and. elegant, which 13 found plentifully along the Pacific coast. It Is like an ostrich feather, in miniature. Nobody seems ever to have' thought of utilizing ft In any way, yet for the adornment of hats (if suitably dried and dyed) It would be most valuable. The "sea. mass," Imported from Germany, has been laigely. ntlllzed. far purposes other than tiro It is manufacture of millinery. used In quantities for hanging baskets, being "warranted" not to die or "lose fts natural color." This Is no idle or untruthful claim; fox ft cannot die, inasmuch as it is al-- . ready dead when Imported, audi being dyed a "fast green," it can not fade. full-fledge- A d, -( '7 it" j j J |