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Show Men's hats of Rabbit Fur. Men's hats, stiff or soft alike, are made from the fur of tho rabbit. A coppor cone, whoso very top is more or loss tho shapo of tho crown of a derby hat, and whoso sides nro covered cov-ered with minuto holes, 1b revolved very swiftly over a suction fan. Tho fur is fed on to the cone and tho suction suc-tion and tho swift revolution draws this aeainst tho cone in the form of a fur cone very far in shape from the finished hat,' but 'which rapidly becomes a finished,' hat by sizing, shrinking, shaping and trimming. In-dlvdual In-dlvdual skill of a very high order counts for everything. Diinbury, Conn., makes 90 per cent of the stiff hats made in the United States. |