Show i FOE WOMANS VANITY BIRDS AND BEASTS ARE TORTURED TOR-TURED AND KILLED Every Plume and Feather In Feminine Femi-nine Headgear Cost the Life of One of Gods Creatures Christian Principle Involved Tills Is an age In which RS never In f any other women are coming bctoro a tho world as workers for reform They exhibit In an over Increasing degree de-gree tho dlvlno unrest dissatisfaction dissatisfac-tion with wrong desire to right It But thoro IB ono form of wrong crueltywhich women are not con slstently trying to remedy I say not consistently Tho name woman who will Interfere on behalf of an overloaded over-loaded or Illtreated horse and who would perhaps rescue a starving cat 1 or dog Is often to be seen with n flayed flay-ed allvo seals skin on her back and on her head tho plumage of slaughtered slaughter-ed birds To all appearances unconscious uncon-scious of her culpability sho advertises adver-tises the fact that she either will not road or does not regard tho statements 4 state-ments so well authenticated and In R the caso of bird plumage BO widely and repeatedly published concerning tho barbarities perpetrated In obtain ing these things Last October Mr William Dutcher of New York city president of tho National Association of Audubon Societies So-cieties made an address In Philadelphia Philadel-phia at the annual meeting of the American Humane association In which after mentioning what has been often repeated tho fact that to ob tain tho white algretto so largely worn Involves not only the destruc tion of parent birds for these plumes grow only at tho time of nesting but tho death of their young from starva tlon Ho spoko also of tho brutal mur Car of one of tho wardens In tho employ em-ploy of tho association by a plume hunter at Oyster Key Florida This law breaker for whoso nefarious I I trade feather wearing women aro responsible re-sponsible resented tho Interference of the warden and killed him Such u women may now reflect If they will Dn the fact that the thoughtlessness and vanity of their kind have incidentally inci-dentally been the means of murdering Y a roan and leaving his wife a widow I and his children orphans They are ltt also responsible for encouraging a trade of tho most brutalizing tendencies tenden-cies No man can spend his time killing t kill-ing with all the haste and recklessness 1 reckless-ness possible Innocent birds at tho nesting period leaving tho young to starve without himself losing tho last remnant of feeling Such a man Is getting tho education of a criminal Women who wear the products of his evil work are before God responsible whether they think about It or not Mr Dutcher In his address spoke of tho killing of birds In general the utter folly of it on account of tho loss to agriculture through the ravages of Insects the cruelty and the Impossibility Impos-sibility of existence for tho human race were It not for tho birds He spoko of the laws his association has secured and Is aiming to secure and thoro was one at least of his hearers who hoped that the day might speedily como when women cruel enough or heedless enough to wear bird plumage shall be liable anywhere to arrest and flue ns law breakers Millinery that costs suffering and slaughter the killing of Gods beautiful beauti-ful innocent and most useful creatures should be condemned by OMrlch feathers can be humanely taken tak-en from the bird but there Is reason to believe that even these are cruelly torn out In many Instances women claiming to bo civilized and left to savages and barbarians No really humane woman wants to wear even ns much as a chicken feather because be-cause all featherwearing tends to prolong pro-long l the fashion Ono of the most Incomprehensible things connected with tho senseless and cruel bird plume fashion is tho silence of ministers of the Gospel Why can they not seo that for a woman to deck herself with the results re-sults of cruelty and brutality Is inconsistent incon-sistent with Christian profession I There is a crying need that people In all the churches should be told definitely de-finitely and specifically what applied Christianity is Participation in cruelty is a sin from which professing Christians aro far from being exempt and It constitutes n serious and well grounded causo for criticism among outsiders who aro humane They laugh at a Christianity which harps continually on Gods mercy to us but says little or nothing about tho mercy which we in consequence should show to every living creature Can the Justice of this criticism be denied Bt F Lovell Secretary American Humane Hu-mane Association |