GOLD FISH 
HE culture of Japanese and Chinese fish is 
an art that has been appreciated and 
esteemed for countless centuries in those 
more enlightened countries. 
For esthetic reasons alone one would be 
repaid by the sheer beauty of these piscatorial den¬ 
izens of the ponds, pools, and streams. 
Educational—we will not dwell upon that—but 
when you realize how many years it took to evolve 
the wonderously beautiful Korean Fringetail or the 
Chinese Red Telescope from the common five and ten 
cent stock, you will have a faint idea that perhaps 
there is something in the theory of evolution. 
For many, many generations, in China as well as 
Japan, every bit of controlled water has harbored some 
variety of goldfish. Some, because the owner admired 
beautiful things; some for scientific reasons, but 
mostly because the finny dwellers therein were ex¬ 
tremely useful guardians of health. 
Goldfish subsist for the most part in nature on in¬ 
sect life and plant pests, mosquito larvae is one of 
their main articles of diet during that season. So 
you see that they are most necessary. 
A golden streak; a silvery flash or a lazily floating 
view of black velvet with still more bewildering 
glimpses of red, blue, lavender, pearl, orange and 
purple. These are just a few impressions of color. 
The shape and curves of these finny marvels are just 
as many and varied. 
We have assembled for your selection a collection 
of Goldfishes unrivaled by any. 
All of our Goldfish, except for a few of the rarer 
varieties, have been bred and raised in natural ponds 
and are perfectly at home either in the pool or 
aquarium. 
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