Show o 3 Jl W Who Wo c H BY Y ERNEST E R N EST If A ROL BAYNES Y N E S x N the humble opinion If f some of us IN 1 tIe the three sexes nc no t cont a aa Sydney Smith o or somebody som else els suggested of tr men wo en and clergy clergymen cler men roen but of ot men nn n and the women omen wh Who wear aigrettes aigret tes The lines lIne ep Mp rate irate them lir r not chart As Jk we all krou krew some mp are ate exceedingly ladylike and T O Omen men so a mannish md in manner miJ i mer and dr dras as to b be difficult of 1 in inthe Inthe Inthe the same me ay it is ia o qute easy ea any to n intake one of the women w he W r rett f 1 r a t woman woma but butth th the an re now unmistakable mistakable a al il w IV the th for a moment I IL t m fl tit tel you yuu a 8 tid ic little story Ft t ry w was wah told to tie lIe H L by a frIend tl nd vM aeme I yr yar eara ago ace spent a large of ef W time in Florida He uain wa va in n a quiet swamp when hen henhe he hI came ce ui UIn n a colon Colony v of if snowy her bu na which had nad built their rude n ts if r in the low which gre grew from tn the water of ot a utile pond pon Jl any of the beautiful birds were xer Balking aIng along the of ot the pond end and many others othera were sitting Hitting on their u At his approach the Bitting irda arose arce white and silent as u a great na t tIno Ino lifted by the wind and nl In the trees which hieb surround surrounded ed Cd 1 the pond they sto d anxiously Batching the intruder Their dusling l e uty was wu enhanced l by y their bridal i bes eS formed of long 1011 airy plumes i v latch beh stretched In tn gnu ef ul curves trem between the shoulders down over overt tu t the tM tack ad beyond the taU the tips r Banding rundIng upward and backward with f subtle turn tam It wee was a wondrous sight thos tho e spotless birds bird whose whoa dainty trace grace race was w heightened by contrast with the pate pale blue bine eggs or awkward awu nest liest ne t lIn a sight not DOt to be seen Hell In Fbi Flor Florida ida jda today About a week later Iter my 1 Mend friend was wu within a mile of this heronry when wilen lie he heard the tile report of a gun can It came from the direction of f the lit little littie littie tie tle pond and aDel as it was wu quickly folIo fol follo lo Io loe ed t by y 7 several other reports he hur hurried riM ried r to the spot to find and out what the matter was w As he be went along alone many m mox gun were discharged and when he reached the heronry b the he saw w as sad gad sada gada Bada a sight 1 ae ver vi met the eye eyes of a lover biL The he tI lit Itt little tie tle p rewn wit OM 0 White bite b if J hero s already dead dd and aed i L t with the pain tn i f wounds f from itom nm which trickled the blood Mood which dyed ed their snowy pi plain urn j age oge Others Other stilt still had bad evidently been dead tot Cor a ay or Gr tw tW the I arose rose 8 from them in hi clouds fn n the Ute I hack haek of each ob of Dr was waa a large space pate clear tear ff f feathers ai am and 1 cover Ow r d with dried dri d showing sh whence hal hai been torn tore tor the graceful gra plumes donned for a bridal bidal A few wounded herons heron II lay Mai pins in m the water which here and thre was streaked aked with red At different points along the shore hore and anc among the t h trees were stationed tb four tour men who had committed com this tits rime crime Now and then oRe one of the few w remaining herons faithful to her hel young would come flying over the ru ruined ruI med ined city and alight upon some me look lookout I cut out perch penh before going c to Ute toe nest neat with food This was w the moment the themen themen men were waiting for and the hang bang of ot the gun was nearly always alway fol lol followed I lowed toy by y the thump thum p of the tile birds t body as it struck the Ute ground There was nothing to be done These The men were phi plume me hunters acting under I the protection of ot the laws law of Florida Fiends hireling slaughterhouse butchers directly di directly in the employ of large millinery establishments and indirectly in the employ of f iced women who w o would shudder if they accidentally a stepped upon a worm Sick at heart at the horror honor of the sight and anO at the hopelessness a of ot pro protest protest protest test my friend turned away But next nen day he be returned to the scene that he 0 might know all ail the facts The men were gone their bloody task tuk was wu done but the pitiful carcasses of their thelt victims still I lay rotting netting in the sun All but one for a faint rustle called attention to a bird mangled and bleed blood bleeding lug inc but still alive gasping ca out its he last Jut hour in agony y All AH the previous night that bird had lain doubtless suffering u art the tortures tort urea of ot the damned that a 8 woman might bt declare herself helt In the fashion tor b flaunting its ita dead plumes plumea upon her head Quickly putting pUtUna the tile suffering creature out of its tta misery my friend turned his attention to other sounds which came from the direction of the rookery rooke itself elt it in some of o the Ue lay Ute pie pale blue blae eggs no noc cell and pd Dd 1 awl in others tiny YoW which had bad quickly perished after their parents had ceased ed a to provide for tor th But nut fr from m several veral came ratie the clamor of more nore I advanced d w which uh were literally starving to death deet simply be ba bec t c cuo u tb t be m men n who slaughtered t parents were not paid to t save ave these theM theMI wretched little UtU beings rein from fro a lingering Un UnAs I death As I go along the streets l r or in the trains train or in ill public buildings it is ta I pleasure to study the faces and ha of the people I 1 see and nd an anyone anone one wo bo i will do this carefully for a little while e I i will become impressed very ery strongly t with the fact that certain habits of O dress are nearly always limited to t pea pie of a certain certin class clau c and that they uw nearly sways aw go CO with certain ou characteristics of that class d cis So go it If with the wearing we of aigrettes There n nw was w a time Mme when this till fashion 0 owls to ignorance and aad misinformation wan wM universal We W saw MW worn by women of all aU 11 grades grad of reAne meat most and anel intelligence In Today y tots this is not Dot so The Th Audubon A n societies and their rn friends have MV through ts ef or and nd newspaper articles and through innumerable IQ lee tec tare tures t spread ad the news new of the enormity t of the crime which has wiped the snowy heron from res Florida a and ancI which te exterminate t the species in all an peru parts of 4 its It isaie until MaUl it te is al ale most maR inco I e that mat t any a wom wo n nin in Iii this Wa either r reads ada her Mr herself self elf or has Who Jt do can be a informed ot ets oJ thinking women W raib dH b ba the TaIne as a soon as they knew what they were way doing and they were were followed by 7 thou thousands thousands sands n who had hd b no desire to be M beless heart heartless less Those Tho e who still continue to w wS them constitute a third sex ex the tM We Wa Wamen men who wear aigrettes and there th is evidently something radically wre with them They either know the t pr tr they do not If the former ia Is fact tact they lay themselves open to te charge charee of the most moat outrageous heart heartlessness leAn which modern women have MY 1 ever been charged with If It the latter Jau lattaris is the case then their particular brand of ignorance should hould have bave a shelf and aa anda aaa a label of its U own |