Show TO PUNISH WEARERS OF BIRDS From the Portland Oicgoiilau It is easy enough to find people twIll t-will condemn the fashion of wearing bird skins na ornaments but few are willing to put their sentiments Into effect ef-fect It has remained for the City Council of New Orleans to pass an ordinance ordi-nance absolutely prohibiting the sale keeping or offering for sale of wild resident or migratory birds feathers or parts of such birds for ornamental purposes And further a fine of from 10 to 100 with ten to ninety days In jail Is provided for any person who shall wear a bird or part of a bird as an ornament Next Friday the ordinance will go Into force and the women of New Orleans wIll have to go about with fcathorless hats Onco more we have sumptuary laws but they l are enacted with intent very different from those made by Kings who reserved to themselves them-selves a color or a material |