Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1913 — Expensive Furs. [ARTICLE]

Expensive Furs.

Actresses who wish to assert victorious power in their toilets have a mania for rich furs. The supply grows scarcer and the demand rapidly rises. The skin of the Andes rat now costs, first hand, 90 francs. It is this little animal that gives us the beautiful Chili fur, now so prized for motor wraps, stoles, muffs and garnitures. A further rise to expected, the Bolivian Government having forbidden the export of the pelts of the Andes rata. Furriers here have fallen beck on the skin of the opossum, which costs but eight francs.—Paris Letter to London Troth.