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Show The Chinchilla. The tiny chinohilla, not more than 12 inches long, with a plump little body on short, stout legs, thrives only in the tropics. New York's supply of ohinchil-la ohinchil-la Kkins comes from Peru and Venezuela chiefly. The little tewts have to be killed with the utmost precaution not to injure their fur, that grows on a skin nearly as tender and soft as a web of silk. They are not common animals nor abundant in their South American haunts, so that a perfect chinchilla skin when it arrives, customs paid, in the port of New York, easily fetches $10 or $12 for its hand's breadth of fur. To keep in good condition the dolicate pelt and the making up of small bits into tho large barrel shaped muffs and circular circu-lar cape collars worn this season easily make a chinchilla wrap more costly than ermine or sable. A perfect skin, not larger than a small pocket handkerchief, handker-chief, is a revelation in fur growth. The texturo of every hair is finer than floss silk, tho length of it nearly an inch and tho coloring about that of the soft un-dyed un-dyed marabout feathers, New York Sun. |
