FLAPPERS AND FURS.
Miss Ima Dumbunny, winner of the beauty contest held by the Silver Rabbits Association, says that, as far as she can see) even if an animal has suffered a few days in a trap, it can do no harm to wear its skin now that it is dead, and anyway, her furrier, Mr. Izzie Skingame, says it will be only too easy to give her a guarantee that any fur he sells was killed humanely, and besides, she thinks any animal ought to be glad to suffer a while with the prospect of adorning her neck, for it makes her look perfectly lovely, and she doesn’t see how it makes any difference if furs are a little warm in summer, when you can get such lovely cool drinks at any soda fountain, and suppose leopard coats are made out of stencilled rabbit skins, what is the difference if you can get away with it, and besides, if it wasn’t for the fur-trade, the foxes would eat up all the rabbits, or the rabbits would eat up all the foxes, she has forgotten which. —American Nature Magazine.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 21, 1 July 1930, Page 13
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189FLAPPERS AND FURS. Forest and Bird, Issue 21, 1 July 1930, Page 13
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