Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-08-26 | Page 9 | Plantlike Animals for That Decoration

uu PLANTLIKE ANIMALS FOR HAT DECORATION. Another step has been taken In tho advance of millinery. The first step In this decoration was taken when bird lovers said: "Thou shalt not kill the birds to get fine plumage." Now plantliko animals arc to be used in place of flowers and ribbons, If tho fishery bureau at Washington haa anything to say. By mere accident it came across an immense quantity of this millinery supply. For several years past the big wholesale millinery houses havo been making a study of the jelly fish plant in our waters. Tho stuff has been found in immense beds all along the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida. It is everywhere superior to the article the big wholesale whole-sale milliners have been Importing from Germany a sort of green stuff commonly sailed "sea weed." Recent studies made by the fishery bureau I show that other species of "jelly fish" plants can be used for tho same purpose pur-pose Most beautiful of all Is the "ostrich plume," delicato and elegant, which is found on the Pacific coast, it la wonderfully like an ostrich plume In miniature. The so-called "sea moss" of Germany has been utilized largely for this purpose, but It is also sold to decorate hanging baskets. oo