Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1894 — When Buying Furs. [ARTICLE]

When Buying Furs.

Ladies Home Journal. In buying furs, for trimming, go to a first-class place, inasmuch as the furs that are ap parently sold for such cheap prices are usually found lacking. Frequently they have not been taken care of during the summer, and the moth has made his home among the hairs, and in a short time you will find your gown or skirt continually covered with them, and wherever you sit, or whoever naiay be will also suffer from this rain of loose»fur. If a good effect is produced by an imitation fur. buy it, but examine it'well. Mink is particularly well imitated, and as the real fur is quite expensive it may be taken for granted that on nine out of ten gowns the fur has never been acquainted with that sharp looking little animal, whose head just now is of so much value. The imitations of ermine are never good, and therefore not to be thought of. Astrakhan is sufficiently low in price tc permit any one getting a gown trimming to have the real article itself.